[Home]  [Headlines]  [Latest Articles]  [Latest Comments]  [Post]  [Sign-in]  [Mail]  [Setup]  [Help] 

Status: Not Logged In; Sign In

The Money and Power Behind the Riots: This is No Grass-Roots Movement D.C. Judge Sides With Trump In Lawsuit Over Control Of Corrupt Foreign Aid Agency Israel Iran Double Standard Soros Funneled $8.3M into Leftist Group Trying to Turn Lone Star State Blue California Democrats Under Fire for Buying Bricks During Protests ICE Launches Campaign to Crack Down on Marriage Fraud Could Ilhan Omar Finally Face Justice? Joe Rogan's podcast predicted violent LA riots two years ago leaving viewers stunned Anti-migrant rioters shouting 'f*** off foreigners!' Amazing things happen when you actually cut government spending. 25 Vaccine Death Stories To Share In Social Media The White House just posted this: US Anticipating Potential Israeli Attack on Iran Grok Is Using a Far-Left Fact Check website to Smear and Censor Conservative Outlets on X Over 300 UK Foreign Office staff told to consider resigning if they disagree with government's Gaza policy Jimmy Dore: Here’s How Israel’s Massacres At Aid Sites Work! Iran successfully tests missile with 2-ton warhead Liberal Teachers Union Presidents Rally Behind LA Rioters Ilhan Omars Daughter Applauds Anti-ICE Riots, Urges Death to Colonial Empire: U.S. and Israel One Oppressor California Leaders Want United Nations Blue Helmets to Expel Federal Forces from the State Tulsi Gabbard Warns of “Nuclear Holocaust” in Chilling 3-Minute Plea LBMA Silver Short Position Now 2nd Largest In History Chumbawamba - Tubthumping Something BIG is happening right now in the Middle East, Israel ready to attack Iran AMERICA ON FIRE: Riots & Chaos as Trump Quadruples ICE Raids! THE BANKRUPTCY OF THE UNITED STATES (Emergency Banking Act) In France, young women are starting to buy pet pigs to avoid being harassed by Muslim men Elderly Veteran kills 3 Home Invaders Number One Longevity Food Inflation Highest In Democrat States, Lowest In Republican Deep South TikToker admits to being paid $150 a day to protest Trump’s deportation policies in LA

World News
See other World News Articles

Title: Charlie Wilson's War (History Channel version)
Source: history channel
URL Source: http://historychannel.com
Published: Dec 22, 2007
Author: NA
Post Date: 2007-12-22 22:39:34 by Mekons4
Keywords: None
Views: 324
Comments: 2

I'd like to see the movie, but I prefer to read the book. But tonight History Channel had a 2-hour documentary about him, with an interview with all the main characters, and I don't think the movie can touch this. It was great, particularly since it must have been done pretty rapidly to take advantage of the movie release.

It will repeat at 11 CST, if you're interested.

If you are not familiar with it, it's about a coke-sniffing, prostitute-loving party boy in Congress who had the right committee assignments to get weapons sent to Afghanistan rebels secretly in time to beat the Soviets. It's pretty fascinating, and all the people involved are interviewed except for the CIA guy who set it all up for him. The stripper/belly dancer who got the Egyptian defense minister to cough up the weapons, the rich anti-commie socialite who seduced the head of the appropriations committee, CIA guys, reporters, and Charlie himself are all there. It's perhaps the best thing History Channel has ever done.

Four thumbs up. (I'm a mutant.)

Post Comment   Private Reply   Ignore Thread  

#1. To: Mekons4, All (#0)

Thanks for the heads up. It's going to be re-telecast on Dec. 23 and 28 too.

Some interesting info in these articles - cut and paste the urls:

www.rockymountainnews.com...earson-the-true-story-of- charlie-wilson/

"The True Story of Charlie Wilson"

AND

www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2007/12/12/2007-12- 12_socialite_joanne_herring_wins_war.html

"Socialite Joanne Herring wins 'War'"

[I guess the original screen play linked the CIA's arming and training of the Muhjadeen in Afghanistan to the unintended consequences ie. 9/11 but Herring personally intervened and had the script revised to delete that scene.]

Former Texas Congressman Charlie Wilson and his ex-fiancee, Joanne Herring, won a second victory at Monday's L.A. premiere of "Charlie Wilson's War."

The ex-lovers - who supplied the mujahedeen with the guns they needed to chase the Russians out of Afghanistan - succeeded in detonating parts of the script that suggested Wilson and Herring had also seeded the events of 9/11.

Herring, played by Julia Roberts in the Mike Nichols film, tells us she "practically choked" when she read Aaron Sorkin's original screenplay. The movie ended with a shot of the Pentagon in flames, implying that Herring and Wilson (played by Tom Hanks) had abetted Osama Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda crew.

"Can you ever predict a war?" she argues. "The shelf life of a Stinger missile is five years. There's no weapon we got them that can be used today."

Herring also didn't cotton to the way Sorkin had Roberts swearing, spouting evangelical screeds and engaging in martini-fueled romps with Hanks.

"I didn't like the cursing, the drinking, the blatant sex," says the 78-year- old thrice-married Houston socialite, philanthropist and former talk show host. "They turned me into a kooky, hypocritical tart."

After sharing the script with Wilson, she says, "We wept and wailed and gnashed our teeth." Then they brought in some legal muscle - Dick DeGuerin (Tom “still The Hammer” DeLay’s attorney against Texas DA Ronnie “Soros Shadow Party & Ultra Liberal Hack” Earle - FlA), the Houston attorney who represented Robert Durst, the deranged New York real estate heir who, as Herring notes, "killed his neighbor and chopped him in pieces. Dick got him off."

DeGuerin got the attention of Universal and the producers, who flew Wilson and Herring to meet the stars in Morocco, which was doubling as Afghanistan.

"Tom Hanks said to me, 'I've been in love with you for six months, give me a kiss!' I was delighted to. And Julia Roberts was so lovely.

"They still wouldn't let me on the set," she adds. "I said, 'What do you think I'm going to do - roll on the floor and foam at the mouth?'"

Assured that the script would be changed, Herring flew to the L.A. premiere with Houston pals, who included former Secretary of State James Baker. To everyone's great relief, she and Wilson liked what they saw on the screen.

Herring admitted that, just like in the movie, she wore slinky dresses to meet men in power.

"That's the only way anyone would listen to me," she laughs. "I'm a Christian, but even Christ liked to have a good time."

scrapper2  posted on  2007-12-23   0:27:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Nice find. Bet she doesn't like this doc at all, because the paint her as a tart, for sure. She looks GOOD for her age, though, but the belly dancer is just plain hot for her age. Anyway, I have no plans to see the movie. No way it is better than the doc.

Honi soit qui mal y pense

Mekons4  posted on  2007-12-23   0:53:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

[Home]  [Headlines]  [Latest Articles]  [Latest Comments]  [Post]  [Sign-in]  [Mail]  [Setup]  [Help]