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'Live From Baghdad' This weekHBO has been heavily promoting its new movie, Live from Baghdad. It's about the CNN producers and reporters who braved Iraqi censors and Allied bombs to report from a room in the al-Rashid Hotel on the first night of the Gulf War in 1991. Commentator and Time magazine writer James Poniewozik says it might be worth your while to watch this weekend.

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This weekHBO has been heavily promoting its new movie, Live from Baghdad. It's about the CNN producers and reporters who braved Iraqi censors and Allied bombs to report from a room in the al-Rashid Hotel on the first night of the Gulf War in 1991. Commentator and Time magazine writer James Poniewozik says it might be worth your while to watch this weekend.

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