Henry Kissinger died on Wednesday at his home in Connecticut, his consulting firm said in a statement. The notorious war criminal was 100.
Measuring purely by confirmed kills, the worst mass murderer ever executed by the United States was the white-supremacist terrorist Timothy McVeigh. On April 19, 1995, McVeigh detonated a massive bomb at the Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including 19 children. The government killed McVeigh by lethal injection in June 2001. Whatever hesitation a state execution provokes, even over a man such as McVeigh — necessary questions about the legitimacy of...
Measuring purely by confirmed kills, the worst mass murderer ever executed by the United States was the white-supremacist terrorist Timothy McVeigh. On April 19, 1995, McVeigh detonated a massive bomb at the Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including 19 children. The government killed McVeigh by lethal injection in June 2001. Whatever hesitation a state execution provokes, even over a man such as McVeigh — necessary questions about the legitimacy of...
- 11/30/2023
- by Spencer Ackerman
- Rollingstone.com
“Bernard and Huey” helmer and co-founder of Slamdance Film Festival Dan Mirvish, now behind “18 ½,” knew that making a movie about Watergate would still be “resonant and relevant,” he says. Not just in the U.S., but all over the world.
Focusing on the infamous “18½-minute gap” from a taped conversation between Nixon and his chief of staff H.R. Haldeman after the Watergate break-in, allegedly erased by Nixon’s secretary by mistake, a Bugeater Films and Kyyba Films production – starring Willa Fitzgerald and John Magaro – will open theatrically on May 24 in Los Angeles, New York and Omaha, later expanding to other cities.
“[On ‘Bernard and Huey’] our last day of shooting was on the day of the 2016 presidential election. I had a feeling that the word ‘impeachment’ or the echoes of Watergate and Nixon would come back to haunt us,” Mirvish tells Variety.
“When we showed the film at the São Paulo International Film Festival,...
Focusing on the infamous “18½-minute gap” from a taped conversation between Nixon and his chief of staff H.R. Haldeman after the Watergate break-in, allegedly erased by Nixon’s secretary by mistake, a Bugeater Films and Kyyba Films production – starring Willa Fitzgerald and John Magaro – will open theatrically on May 24 in Los Angeles, New York and Omaha, later expanding to other cities.
“[On ‘Bernard and Huey’] our last day of shooting was on the day of the 2016 presidential election. I had a feeling that the word ‘impeachment’ or the echoes of Watergate and Nixon would come back to haunt us,” Mirvish tells Variety.
“When we showed the film at the São Paulo International Film Festival,...
- 5/19/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
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Suspenseful political dramas are always a good watch, but one with Julia Roberts and Sean Penn? Count me in! The acclaimed actors are starring in the latest Starz limited series "Gaslit," which sheds light on the politicians and outsiders who influenced the Watergate Scandal.
"Gaslit" centers around the boisterous, personable Martha Mitchell (Roberts), the wife of United States attorney general and presidential campaign chairman John Mitchell (Penn), who served under President Nixon. In an unfortunate series of events, Martha Mitchell finds herself swept into the chaos and subsequent coverup of the Watergate Scandal, which inevitably impacts the rest of her life.
"Gaslit" is based on the first season of the Slate podcast "Slow Burn," which examines the little-known details behind one of America's greatest political scandals. Ahead of "Gaslit"'s premiere on April 24, here's everything you need to know about the true story behind the dramatized series.
Suspenseful political dramas are always a good watch, but one with Julia Roberts and Sean Penn? Count me in! The acclaimed actors are starring in the latest Starz limited series "Gaslit," which sheds light on the politicians and outsiders who influenced the Watergate Scandal.
"Gaslit" centers around the boisterous, personable Martha Mitchell (Roberts), the wife of United States attorney general and presidential campaign chairman John Mitchell (Penn), who served under President Nixon. In an unfortunate series of events, Martha Mitchell finds herself swept into the chaos and subsequent coverup of the Watergate Scandal, which inevitably impacts the rest of her life.
"Gaslit" is based on the first season of the Slate podcast "Slow Burn," which examines the little-known details behind one of America's greatest political scandals. Ahead of "Gaslit"'s premiere on April 24, here's everything you need to know about the true story behind the dramatized series.
- 4/5/2022
- by Alicia Geigel
- Popsugar.com
Paul Thomas Anderson grew up in the San Fernando Valley, which played an important role in his 1997 breakthrough film “Boogie Nights,” which looked at Valley’s porn industry during the ‘70s and 80s. In his new United Artists release “Licorice Pizza,” Anderson returns to the Sfv for a nostalgia-tinged comedy-of-age story set in 1973 starring Cooper Hoffman and Alana Haim. Both young performers received strong notices with the L.A. Times’ Justin Chang declaring Haim as the true star of “this boisterous, bighearted movie and its raison d’être.” And Bradley Cooper has earned positive notices for his funny turn as hairdresser turned film producer Jon Peters, who ironically was a producer on Cooper’s 2018 “A Star is Born.”
So, what was the world like in 1973? It was the year of Watergate, Roe Vs. Wade and “The Exorcist” hitting the big screen. Let’s travel back almost half a century to look at the top films,...
So, what was the world like in 1973? It was the year of Watergate, Roe Vs. Wade and “The Exorcist” hitting the big screen. Let’s travel back almost half a century to look at the top films,...
- 12/2/2021
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Songwriter Kirsty MacColl's "They Don't Know (About Us)" makes a fitting title track for "Our Nixon." The found-footage documentary, woven from 500 hours of Super 8 shot by Watergate convicts H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and Dwight Chapin, isn't just a portrait of the Nixon's peculiar boys club. It's a time capsule from a bygone age. And, really, who would have thought the president's chief of staff, domestic affairs advisor, and special assistant spent the early 1970s making home movies along with national policy, carrying cameras as well as clipboards? (Imagine Reggie Love and Rahm Emanuel uploading playful YouTube videos from the campaign trail.) Witnessed from our own era -- an era of armed drones, hacker collectives, and Prism, of staying "on message" and avoiding "gaffes" -- this unorthodox raw material, collected by the FBI in the course of the Watergate investigation, seems almost quaint in its earnestness. "I was just waiting,...
- 8/30/2013
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
"Our Nixon," Penny Lane's acclaimed documentary that premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam in January and went on to play at SXSW and New Directors/New Films, opens in select theaters this Friday, August 30th. The film is comprised of archival interviews and rediscovered Super 8 home movie footage filmed by Nixon's closest aides between 1969 and 1973, including chief of staff H.R. Haldeman, domestic affairs adviser John Ehrlichman and special assistant Dwight Chapin. The film pairs its home movies with archival interviews in which Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Chapin reflect on the president, their time in the White House and Watergate. Below, watch an exclusive scene from the documentary, with a foreword by producer Brian L. Frye about the clip. ________________________________ In 2010, Bradley Manning leaked hundreds of thousands of classified military documents to Wikileaks. And in May 2013, Edward Snowden leaked classified Nsa documents exposing...
- 8/26/2013
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
With a multiplicity of controversies swirling around the current administration, the word "Nixonian" is being tossed out as an exemplar of the worst sort of White House corruption, much as tacking on the "-gate" suffix from Watergate has become the top way to identify any scandal.
But the Watergate scandal itself was a case of spying on political opponents. On the list of possible and actual presidential peccadilloes - including some other shady doings Richard Nixon's administration was involved in -- the actual Watergate break-in and the subsequent cover-up are relatively small potatoes.
But thanks to an informant nicknamed Deep Throat and the efforts of intrepid Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Watergate looms large in the public imagination. The names of those who wound up going to jail have become watchwords for malfeasance. In that, the fact that they were living, breathing human beings can get lost.
But the Watergate scandal itself was a case of spying on political opponents. On the list of possible and actual presidential peccadilloes - including some other shady doings Richard Nixon's administration was involved in -- the actual Watergate break-in and the subsequent cover-up are relatively small potatoes.
But thanks to an informant nicknamed Deep Throat and the efforts of intrepid Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Watergate looms large in the public imagination. The names of those who wound up going to jail have become watchwords for malfeasance. In that, the fact that they were living, breathing human beings can get lost.
- 8/1/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
The forthcoming film "Our Nixon" promises to provide a unique look at Richard Nixon's presidency through hundreds of hours of never-before-seen footage shot by his closest advisers.
Time got its hands on a new preview of the movie on Tuesday. Watch it above.
Filmed on Super 8 video cameras, the footage -- shot by aides H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and Dwight Chapin, all of whom would eventually serve jail sentences for their role in the Watergate scandal -- had been seized by FBI officials, where it had remained in the bureau's custody for nearly 40 years.
Director and Co-Producer Penny Lane and her documentary team got their hands on hundreds of reels of the home movies and turned it into a film that has been hailed for providing unprecedented insight into the internal workings of Nixon's abbreviated presidency.
"Our Nixon" is set for limited release on Aug. 30 and will premiere on CNN on Aug.
Time got its hands on a new preview of the movie on Tuesday. Watch it above.
Filmed on Super 8 video cameras, the footage -- shot by aides H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and Dwight Chapin, all of whom would eventually serve jail sentences for their role in the Watergate scandal -- had been seized by FBI officials, where it had remained in the bureau's custody for nearly 40 years.
Director and Co-Producer Penny Lane and her documentary team got their hands on hundreds of reels of the home movies and turned it into a film that has been hailed for providing unprecedented insight into the internal workings of Nixon's abbreviated presidency.
"Our Nixon" is set for limited release on Aug. 30 and will premiere on CNN on Aug.
- 7/16/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
CBS News announced that it will air a special program next Sunday, April 15 dedicated to 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace, who passed away on Saturday, April 7, at the age of 93.
“It is with tremendous sadness that we mark the passing of Mike Wallace. His extraordinary contribution as a broadcaster is immeasurable and he has been a force within the television industry throughout its existence. His loss will be felt by all of us at CBS,” Leslie Moonves, president and CEO, CBS Corporation, says in the statement.
Read the entire statement from CBS News below:
“60 Minutes” Icon Mike Wallace Dies At 93
CBS News legend Mike Wallace,...
“It is with tremendous sadness that we mark the passing of Mike Wallace. His extraordinary contribution as a broadcaster is immeasurable and he has been a force within the television industry throughout its existence. His loss will be felt by all of us at CBS,” Leslie Moonves, president and CEO, CBS Corporation, says in the statement.
Read the entire statement from CBS News below:
“60 Minutes” Icon Mike Wallace Dies At 93
CBS News legend Mike Wallace,...
- 4/8/2012
- by Nuzhat Naoreen
- EW - Inside TV
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