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The Cougar Chronicle

The independent student news site of San Marcos, California

The Cougar Chronicle

The independent student news site of San Marcos, California

The Cougar Chronicle

Arts & Entertainment

Climbing the “Ladder 49”

Alfred C. Chu, Staff Writer October 5, 2004

I walked into the theater expecting to see "Ladder 49" as a movie that makes firefighters seem like heroes to the point that Superman couldn't measure up to them even on his best day a firefighter. I got what I expected and even more. In addition, "Ladder 49" also projects the image that firefighters...

Resurrecting “The Birth of a Nation”

Alfred C. Chu, Staff Writer October 5, 2004

Director D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation" has been resurrected and is now for sale at chain electronic stores. Released in 1915, the silent film accounts the friendship between a northern family, the Stonemans, and a southern family, the Camerons, during pre/post Civil War era, President Lincoln's...

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