“From the author of FIGHT CLUB, CHOKE is a wickedly colorful dark comedy about mothers and sons, sexual compulsion, and the sordid underbelly of colonial theme parks, starring Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston. See CHOKE In theaters on September 26.”

This is getting ridiculous. The Tuesday papers say New York State power broker and GOP Congressman John Sweeney has a little domestic-violence problem, and the Albany newspaper has the 2005 police report (PDF) to prove it.

Gaia M. Sweeney, 36, told a trooper that her husband had grabbed her by the neck and was pushing her around the house, according to the document.

The NY Daily News goes with “knocking her around the house,” which is more dramatic. MORE »

Yes, that’s Don “Pennsylvania Strangler” Sherwood and George “They Gave Me an Ice Cream” Bush at a fund-raising ho-down in Sherwood’s district. MORE »

We love Don Sherwood. It’s not like he’s the only congressman who strangles his mistress, but he is the only one who got caught strangling his mistress. MORE »