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The movie Battleship opens this weekend. Scroll forward for a brief history of the game that inspired the film. . . .
When Battleship first came out before World War I, it involved pencil and paper.
The game is played on four grids. On one grid, the player arranges ships and records the shots by his opponent. On the other, he records his own shots.
There are five different types of ships: aircraft carrier, battleship, submarine, destroyer, and patrol boat.
In 1943, Milton Bradley rereleased the game with a new title: Broadsides, the Game of Naval Strategy.
In 1967, Bradley released the Battleship we know today.
A computerized Electronic Battleship was released in 1977.
In 1989, Battleship was updated to Electronic Talking Battleship.
The game was revamped in 2010, with islands and hexagonal tiles.
Battleship is also available as a computer, cell phone, or video game.
Sacha Baron Cohen is out with a new movie, The Dictator, in which he plays the ruler of the fictional Republic of Wadiya. Scroll forward for a look at Cohen’s past and future. . . .
Cohen’s Jewish-British family lived on the west side of London. His major influences included Monty Python and Peter Sellers.
He attended Christ’s College at the University of Cambridge. According to rumors, he would have given up as a comedian if he hadn’t succeeded five years after graduating.
After doing some modeling and comedy work, he started developing his unique characters. This led to Da Ali G Show in the U.K. HBO picked it up in 2003.
Cohen’s Ali G character is an uneducated fool who commonly messes up interviews, including mispronouncing Newt Gingrich’s name.
Perhaps his most famous character is Borat, the Kazakhstani journalist who starred in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Nation of Kazakhstan.
Cohen’s Bruno character is a gay Austrian fashion reporter. Among other antics, Bruno tried seducing Ron Paul in a hotel room.
Cohen’s latest invention is Admiral General Aladeen, star of The Dictator. He received notoriety for dropping the (pretend) ashes of Kim Jung-il on Ryan Seacrest.
Cohen has appeared in other movies, including Hugo, which was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and won five.
Cohen is currently working on a film-adaptation of Les Misérables. He is playing Monsieur Thénardier. He is also supposed to play Freddie Mercury in a biopic about the rock star.
NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE presents excerpts from Edward Klein’s The Amateur pertaining to the author’s interviews with Reverend Jeremiah Wright about President Obama. Scroll forward. . . .
On first meeting Obama: “I said what Joseph’s brothers in the Bible said when they saw him coming across the field: ‘Behold this dreamer!’”
“‘Well, you already know the Muslim piece of your background. You studied Islam, didn’t you?’ And Barack said, ‘Yeah, Rev, I studied Islam. But help me understand Christianity.’”
“Church is not [Barack and Michelle’s] thing. It never was their thing. . . . But the church was an integral part of Barack’s politics. Because he needed that black base.”
“Barack said, ‘Rev, David [Axelrod] is gonna call you, because we’re going to Iowa tomorrow and I don’t want you to say anything that will upset the Iowa farmers.’”
“And [Barack] said, ‘Rev, Rolling Stone’s gotten a hold of one of your sermons . . . and it’s a big mess. And, you know, you can be over the top at times.’”
“After the media went ballistic on me, I received an email [from one of Barack’s closest friends] offering me [$150,000] not to preach at all until the November presidential election.”
“Barack said he wanted to meet me in secret, in a secure place. And I said, ‘You’re used to coming to my home, you’ve been here countless time, so what’s wrong with coming to my home?’”
“And one of the first things Barack said was, ‘I really wish you wouldn’t do any more public speaking until after the November election.’”
“Barack said, ‘I’m sorry you don’t see it the way I do. Do you know what your problem is?’ . . . And he said, ‘You have to tell the truth.’”
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