Richard Jenkins has become one of the most in-demand character actors in Hollywood, featuring in films such as Flirting with Disaster, There’s Something About Mary, Me Myself and Irene, The Man Who Wasn’t There, Intolerable Cruelty, Shall We Dance, North Country, Fun with Dick and Jane and Burn After Reading.
TV viewers will also remember Richard as the father in the hit series Six Feet Under.
In his new film The Visitor, Richard plays Walter Vale, an economics college professor who discovers young couple Tarek and Zainab illegally renting his vacant flat in New York City.
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Mariah Craven reports live from New York City where she voted at 6am today
Mariah explains some of the reported voting problems, what the candidates are doing on the final day, the size of the vote turnout and the importance of the day to America and to the rest of the world. The eyes of the planet are focusing on the US like never before.
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Mariah Craven reports that the Bush administration is reportedly talking about the government getting ownership stakes in banks.
After a small uptick this morning, the markets continued their downward slide. This comes a day after the federal reserve “and other leading central banks cut interest rates to help fight the credit crisis and stimulate the global economy. Incredibly the country’s debt has gotten so high that the national debt clock in New York City has run out of numbers.
In other news it’s 32 days to the election, which means voter registration will be closing in most places in the next couple of days. In some neighborhoods, there have been lines out the door at sites where people can register. Meanwhile, the New York Times discovered that tens of thousands of voters may have illegally been removed from rolls.
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