From the Wall Street Journal : Here is a small selection of events that have taken place in Britain since the end of Israel's Operation Cast Lead in Gaza earlier this year. The government has imposed a partial arms embargo on Israel and failed to vote against the Goldstone report in the U.N . The charities War on Want and Amnesty International U.K. have both promoted a book by the anti-Israeli firebrand...
Kaylie Jones, daughter of author James Jones: "My father agreed to eliminate a certain number of F-words - in part because there was a question whether the US postal system would even deliver the book to stores because of its 'salacious' nature - but there was another battle he was waging with his publisher. Apparently Scribner's had a 'don't ask don't tell' policy about depicting homosexuality...
The Guardian UK today reveals: Censored gay sex scenes in From Here to Eternity revealed Daughter of author James Jones discloses details of cuts insisted upon by the novel's original publisher * Alison Flood | * guardian.co.uk, Friday 13 November 2009 It is one of the most celebrated images in cinema, an icon of heterosexual romance: Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr kissing as the waves crash over...
The Guardian UK today reveals: Censored gay sex scenes in From Here to Eternity revealed Daughter of author James Jones discloses details of cuts insisted upon by the novel's original publisher * Alison Flood | * guardian.co.uk, Friday 13 November 2009 It is one of the most celebrated images in cinema, an icon of heterosexual romance: Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr kissing as the waves crash over...
Novelist James Jones was apparently forced to remove profanity and explicit descriptions of gay sex from his classic novel From Here to Eternity, the movie of which produced that unforgettably hetero surf-and-turf make-out sesh. The late writer's daughter confirms that...
James Jones, author of From Here to Eternity, fought to keep a gay subplot in the novel. Cormac McCarthy talks about the film version of The Road in the Wall Street Journal and why you won’t find a signed copy of the book Remember when Scholastic tried to censor a tween book because one character had two [...]
Writer James Jones, who died in 1977, may best be known for the book From Here to Eternity, based on his experience serving in Hawaii's infantry. Its copy laced with "fuck," Jones did agree to remove a few of the offending words (it was the early 1950s, after all) just to get the manuscript in [...]
Kaylie Jones, daughter of From Here to Eternity author James Jones, reveals that a major gay sex storyline was cut from her father's famed novel. Plus, view the original manuscript. My father, James Jones, shocked the world by using the F-word and...
James Jones, the White House National Security Adviser on Sunday when eight Americans were killed in a dramatic daylight strike by insurgents, rebuked assertions that the U.S. needs more troops in violence-torn Afghanistan. Interviewed on CNN’s “State of the Union” the retired general contradicted the assessment of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in the region, that...
Yesterday Bob Woodward's story about Stanley McChrystal's counterinsurgency plan for Afghanistan, based on a "leaked" document, wasn't anything that hasn't already been said before, though there are more specifics, and it actually says that "doubling down" isn't going to help matters: Success is achievable, but it will not be attained simply by trying harder of "doubling down"...
This article appears in the September 4, 2009 issue of Executive Intelligence Review. LaRouche on Afghanistan: 'No Alternative To Total Victory' —Over the British Empire by Jeffrey Steinberg Aug. 27—It is growing more and more clear that President Barack Obama is on the verge of committing another, perhaps fatal policy blunder, this time having to do with Afghanistan. According to Washington...
Inquiring minds want to know. What exactly did North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il receive from the Obama Administration in exchange for the safe release of the two captured reporters into the safe care of Bill Clinton ? In reality, most Americans are really wondering whether Clinton hit on the two grateful women. But, that can only be left to one’s imagination. Read from Gordon Cucullu, a former...
Jihad Watch Jihad doctrine and Islamic supremacism? Pah! Of course, this is the kind of thinking that leads Obama to believe that if he reaches out with enough flattery and concessions, the jihad will end. He is in for a surprise."Experts: Many young Muslim terrorists spurred by humiliation," by John Blake for CNN, August 13 (thanks to all who sent this in): [...] People often assume that...
The USSR pulled out. Job done. CIA+Massoud+Pakistan win. SEEYA. 1994 - Taliban appointed by Pakistan, ISI to protect convoys into Afghanistan 1996 - Taliban take over 1998 - Embassies blown up in Dar es Salaam and Kenya by Bin Laden from his new roost There is no way to walk away now. The lesson in isolation has already been given. Financial Times: At a recent meeting with senior military staff, James...
I've decided the theme for August is "Willful Ignorance". Listening to C-Span just solidifies it. Meet the Press : National Security Adviser Gen. James Jones ; NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I); Newark, NJ Mayor Cory Booker (D); Roundtable : David Brooks (The New York Times), Erin Burnett (CNBC) and Jon Meachem (Newsweek). Face the Nation : Gen. James Jones ; Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI); Sen. Lindsey...
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