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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
A few weeks ago, I reviewed Grant Heslov's movie adaptation of Jon Ronson's 2004 nonfiction book The Men Who Stare at Goats, a darkly comic...
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The Konformist Blog (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... he’ll figure it out when he arrives. That through-line is entirely fictional. Journalist Jon Ronson, on whose book of the same name the film is loosely based, did not go to Iraq. George Clooney’s character is a composite. The character that Kevin Spacey plays is the nearly entirely fictitious. And yet, there really was a man who stared a goat to death, or so it appears. There...