2010 United Kingdom general election debates can do something to change our country." The final round of the first ever televised leaders' debates, hosted by the BBC, was held in the Great Hall of Birmingham University on 29 April 2010. The background to the debate was overshadowed a day before by a remark made by Gordon Brown in private, while being driven away after canvassing in Rochdale, when he met retired council worker Gillian Duffy. In the remark, caught by a lapel microphone, Brown said that "...she was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour". At the beginning of the
A Woman, Her Men, and Her Futon Whether one feels the character is liberated or just objectified in deceptively modern terms, you have to agree that Rubin breathes life into Helen's every wayward move. Rubin portrays the woman as both manipulator and susceptible to manipulation. She never pleads for special sympathy, a gutsy move in a film about someone who could easily, if inaccurately, be described as selfish or a victim. It's a mature portrayal of an immature, but growing, character. Sibay convincingly records the details of young adult and industry periphery life. It can't be said that "A Woman, Her Men and Her Futon" offers any