Bobby and J. Edgar: The Historic Face-Off Between the Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover That Transformed America
西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | yesterday
"J. Edgar Hoover had no doubts about Dorothy Day," begin Mark and Louise Zwick, quoted by Stephen Hand — The Catholic Worker and the FBI . The authors continue, "Even before World War II he insisted that she be placed in custodial detention (jail) in the event of a national emergency." The authors "conjecture that FBI officers who were frequently Irish Catholics...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Depp as John Dillinger? With Christian Bale hunting him as Melvin Purvis and Billy Crudup playing J. Edgar Hoover? It's a project that should've raked in the dough, but only made back its hefty budget in its foreign take. Nevertheless, in his review , Jeffrey M. Anderson wrote: "The real person has become disconnected from his own legend, and he has become virtually obsolete....
Watch Free TV Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Johnny Depp and Christian Bale emerge from two of the biggest blockbuster series of all time (Pirates of the Caribbean and Batman, respectively) to star in this crime drama from HEAT director Michael Mann. Depp stars as charismatic 1930s gangster John Dillinger, whose notorious bank robberies have turned him into a celebrity during the Depression era. The rise in crime has J. Edgar Hoover...
artdiamondblog.com (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... who was, among other vile things, racist, misogynist, imperialist, sexually warped. a spy for J. Edgar Hoover, desperate to conceal his illegitimate Spanish birth, (p. 325) and so terrified of death that he had his body cryogenically frozen. Pathologies are undoubtedly at work here, none of them Disney's. Source: Barrier, Michael. The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney . 1 ed. Berkeley,...
Emm in London (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... Archives and the United States Navy Memorial . I was quite excited to stumble upon the The J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building too and you’ll be pleased to know that your intrepid South African / English expat wasn’t arrested for spying as she happily snapped away at the building. The Old Post Office Pavilion was as picturesque as I’d always imagined. I took five minutes...
Misblog (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... irresponsiveness has likely been directed at very high levels within our government. 2. Think J. Edgar Hoover compiling digital dossiers using ultra-high-speed computers, infinite storage capacity, and modern data visualization tools. Original post blogged on b2evolution .
