Bobby and J. Edgar: The Historic Face-Off Between the Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover That Transformed America
What's Left in the Church (Free subscription) | yesterday
... cited Malcolm X in particular), so much the better. Considering the academic Dean at the time, J. Philip Wogaman, had marched in Selma and suffered with the folks there with King, this was, quite literally, a fart in church. Yet, Jones' point needs to be heard as a legitimate criticism of the near-universal acclaim King was already receiving at that time. This is not to suggest that, in the period...
Berto: Philosophy Monkey (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... who could not stand the ambiguity of his humor. During the McCarthy era, director of the FBI J. Edgar Hoover eventually managed to have Chaplin exiled from America. This film, starring Robert Downey Jr. and a great cast, tells Chaplin's story. If you're not in the US, here is a workaround to view the film. Kind of ironic that such a professional perfectionist would totally suck in...
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... is communism. When the Economist talk about communism it is like reading that propaganda book by J.Edgar Hoover on communism: "Master of Deceit", he called it. They don't even try to be a bit more detached or professional when they speak about communism. Look at this: "The third big achievement, alongside democracy and prosperity, is the partial restoration of public-spiritedness,...
FeckenOdeon Films (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... minds. In 1946 the United States Government was still very sensitive about the atomic bomb, and J Edgar Hoover, then head of the FBI was violently opposed to the making of “Notorious”. Only after long discussions between David O Selznick, Hitchcock and Hoover did it go ahead, on the understanding that there was no mention in the script of the FBI or nuclear weapons....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... to the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King. The plots' strings are pulled by J Edgar Hoover, the Mob, Howard Hughes and the CIA, but the main emphasis is on Ellroy's beloved "bad white men" – the rogue cops, shakedown artists and conflicted Mafia lawyers who work for the main players – and the prices they all pay "to secretly define their...
The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Today arrives Barbara Kingsolver’s latest, Lacuna, “an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover.” Also out are a couple more of those nifty “Olive Editions” from HarperCollins, this time of Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 [...]
sheletta.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... do is take out the trash, and that's occasionally. The tables and chairs have been there since J. Edgar Hoover was still running the FBI! It's dark and damp like a dungeon in real life. On television, police stations have marble floors and track lighting and smell like cinnamon. I tell you what, if I ever get arrested for anything, don't take me down to the St. Paul Police Station,...
Movie Talk (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Michael Mann has produced some of Hollywood’s finest thrillers of the past couple of decades – just think back to Manhunter and Heat – but his gangster biopic Public Enemies doesn’t find him at the top of his game. The movie tells the story of Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger , the bank robber whose freewheeling crime spree across America’s Midwest turned him into a celebrity and folk hero. As...
