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18 May 2001, 08:23 PM
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According to the HBO special on Roy Cohn, RFK was apparently in line to by McCarthy's right hand guy, until Cohn stepped in and "stole" the show.
Well, that's what HBO said!!!  VBR, Al Lowe
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19 May 2001, 11:40 AM
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Damn, Al!
If HBO said it, I guess it MUST be so! VBR Shooter sends
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19 May 2001, 08:13 PM
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Well Shooter, I understand that HBO is doing a story on the German records from WWI too.
VBR, Al Lowe
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19 May 2001, 10:01 PM
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Speaking of TV movies: One of the Turner cable channels (I think TNT) produced a docudrama last year based on the Nuremberg trials. All you need to know about it is that alec baldwin was the star, playing US Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson. In the movie, Jackson demolishes Goering on the witness stand, though both books I've seen on the subject state that HG got the better of Jackson. Reportedly the Brits on the panel considered replacing him as chief prosecutor.
Note that baldwin plays Jimmy Doolittle in the upcoming Disney film. Ho-lee smokes...
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20 May 2001, 07:15 PM
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Barrett,
i often wondered during and after i saw the movie, how much of it was the truth. have you any idea how close to the truth of what really happened? just curious... oops, i posted here, must make me an idiot..duh duh... Ron
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21 May 2001, 06:27 AM
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What I've heard is that Baldwin's Doolittle leaves the US never to return.
As for HBO...don't have it. And, as a former New Jerseyite, I might be missing a lot by not seeing "The Sopranos".
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Ron, there was an article in a news magazine about Nuremberg fact & fiction but I don't recall the publication. The movie hype said that much of it was filmed on location and involved mounds of research with transcripts, etc., yadda-yadda. Considering the political orientation of the producers and performers, and knowing some specific lapses, I'd not place a lot of credence. After all, who's gonna make a movie that puts Göring in a good light?
Some movies that strike me as unusually authentic: Zulu, Winter War (Finnish), Sex & the Single Girl, Saving Pvt Ryan, and Hamburger Hill. (Just checking.) Oh, one from Turner TV that's probably the best period cowboy movie ever: Conagher with Sam Elliott. (Mandatory WW I content: I first saw Sam in a '70s TV miniseries, Once an Eagle. That lad knows how to run a bolt-action rifle!)
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