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    "The Kennedys" opens on the eve of Election Day 1960 with John F. Kennedy voicing high hopes to supporters as a long presidential race comes to an end.

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  • FILE - Documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald reacts during a news conference, in this July 12, 2004 file photo taken in New York. Greenwald was behind a petition drive to get the History Channel to not air a controversial miniseries it produced about the Kennedy family. "We have concluded this dramatic interpretation is not a fit for the History brand," the network said in a statement late Friday Jan. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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  • "This sounds like an economic issue," says Joel Surnow, the creator of the hit Fox series "24." "[China] would be a bad market to alienate."

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