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Some interesting top ten lists

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Over the past few days I've come across a few different top ten lists. The first was Oddee's list of ten of the geekiest graffiti. This was my favourite:

Next was Politico's list of the top ten political films of 2008, culminating with these two:

2 ?Recount.? Helmed by Jay Roach (?Meet the Fockers? and the Austin Powers trilogy) and written by Danny Strong, this made-for-HBO film about the hotly contested 2000 presidential election hardly shows candidates George W. Bush or Al Gore, instead focusing on the backstage drama that took place in Florida between their surrogates. In this fictionalized replay of actual events, Laura Dern and Denis Leary steal the show, adding some zany comic levity with their portrayals of Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris and Democratic strategist Michael Whouley, while Kevin Spacey, as Ron Klain ? then Gore?s attorney and now Vice President-elect Joe Biden?s chief of staff appointee ? and Tom Wilkinson, as Bush?s proxy James Baker, give the story more gravitas.

1 ?Milk.? Anchored by a near-perfect performance from Sean Penn, this biopic of the first openly gay American elected official focuses heavily on the political process that Harvey Milk saw as the gateway for social change. Director Gus Van Sant recently told Interview magazine about his first reaction to the script: ?The personal parts of the story were always kind of filtered through the politics, which I?d never seen done before, really.? Van Sant needn?t have worried that the characters talk only about politics ? Milk?s life was politics, and the film?s depiction of the struggle against 1978?s Proposition 6, regarding gay public school teachers, bears striking similarities to the ongoing battle over 2008?s anti-same-sex-marriage initiative, Proposition 8.