Tag: film
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‘boys from brazil’: mengele created twin town in south america
nazi dr mengele is responsible for the astonishing number of twins in a small brazilian town, an historian has claimedfrom telegraph: The steely hearted “Angel of Death”, whose mission was to create a master race fit for the Third Reich, was the resident medic at Auschwitz from May 1943 until his flight in the face…
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media/memes: travolta, groucho, oregon art & world events
scientologist john travolta’s son dies strangely from a ‘medical episode’ while on vacation in the bahamasfrom ap: John Travolta’s teenage son, Jett, died in the Bahamas after falling ill and hitting his head at his family’s vacation home, police said Friday [jan2]. A house caretaker found Jett, 16, unconscious in a bathroom late Friday morning.…
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media memes: nixon, cruise, stone, lennon, vhs & hi-def
‘frost/nixon’: meant for each otherfrom washington post: Neither the title nor the subject matter prepares you for the pure fun of “Frost/Nixon.” Ron Howard’s movie is based on Peter Morgan’s play, which was based on the 1977 television interviews between British journalist David Frost and the disgraced former president Richard Nixon. You expect something dry,…
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‘deep throat’ mark felt dies at 95
from washington post: W. Mark Felt Sr., the associate director of the FBI during the Watergate scandal who, better known as “Deep Throat,” became the most famous anonymous source in American history, died yesterday. He was 95. Felt died at 12:45 p.m. at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa, Calif., where he had…
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the military-entertaiment complex, musical torture & more
military-entertainment complex expandsfrom danger room: Creative Technologies Incorporated – the Hollywood-based company that grew out of the Army’s gaming lab at USC – is pairing up with defense megalith Boeing to collaborate on new sim tech for land forces. Among other things, the Army wants technology to help cannoneers stay in practice. According to the…
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heiress von bulow dies after 28yrs in coma
from ap: Martha “Sunny” von Bulow, an heiress who spent the last 28 years of her life in oblivion after what prosecutors alleged in a pair of sensational trials were two murder attempts by her husband, died Saturday at age 76. She died at a nursing home in New York, her children said in a…
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video: ‘star wars’ & false flag terror
from youtube: Is Obi-Wan Kenobi a Whacko Conspiracy Theorist? This video summarizes the ‘Star Wars’ prequel trilogy’s political storyline, which is that of false flag war and terror. Just as the original ‘Star Wars’ trilogy was modeled after folklore and mythology, such as the legend of King Arthur, the prequel trilogy was modeled after political…
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‘illuminated’ author michael crichton dies of cancer
from ap: Michael Crichton, the million-selling author of such historic and prehistoric science thrillers as “Jurassic Park,” “Timeline” and “The Andromeda Strain,” has died of cancer, his family said. He died Tuesday in Los Angeles at age 66 after a long battle with the illness. Chrichton was a brand-name author, known for his stories of…
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‘w’ film aimed at independent voters
from raw replay: CNN’s Kareen Wynter reported that Oliver Stone’s new film, “W,” is aimed at independent voters and timed to effect the election. This video is from CNN’s American Morning, broadcast October 13, 2008. a puzzling portrayal of a presidentfrom washington post: “W.,” the title of Oliver Stone’s new biopic of President Bush, obviously…
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media & military: still in love after all these years
from fact to fiction: giving writers an inside look at the fbifrom fbi.gov: Imagine you’re a writer working on a film or television script about the FBI, but you really know very little about us beyond what you’ve seen in other movies or TV shows. What do you do? For decades, you’ve been picking up…
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stone’s w is “unusual & inescapably interesting”
from variety: Oliver Stone’s unusual and inescapably interesting “W.” feels like a rough draft of a film it might behoove him to remake in 10 or 15 years. The director’s third feature to hinge on a modern-era presidency, after “JFK” and “Nixon,” offers a clear and plausible take on the current chief executive’s psychological makeup…
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9/11 + 7: man on wire
so, if these guys could sneak in… from magnolia pictures: On August 7th 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between New York’s twin towers, then the world’s tallest buildings. After nearly an hour dancing on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, and brought to…
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clip from oliver stone’s bush film released
from raw replay: A clip from Oliver Stone’s latest film W, about President George W Bush, has been released. This video is from ITN, broadcast September 4, 2008.
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9/11: nist, wtc7, forbes, ntsb, oem, neo, flight93 & more
nist & cnn say wtc7 ‘mystery solved’: minor fires brought a 47-story steel skyscraper down in secondsfrom jones report: NIST’s wizards of balderdash have now officially concluded that fire caused the swift, symmetrical collapse of WTC Building 7 – offering essentially no explanation at all, other than ruling out alternative explanations (which were not scientifically…
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‘reflecting pool’ screening in portland on aug7
thursday night @ 7 at the hollywood theatrefrom 9/11 blogger: Please join us for the Portland, OR, Premiere of “The Reflecting Pool” – an investigative drama about the events of September 11th, 2001. Listen to a local live interview with the filmmakers on KBOO Writer/Director Jarek Kupsc and Producer/Actor Joseph Culp will be present for…