NYT critic virtually alone in support of "Path to 9/11"; Keitel speaks

[DeepModem Mom]

Editor&Publisher: 'NYT' Calls Controversial 9/11 Movie Evenhanded, Others Disagree
By E&P Staff
Published: September 07, 2006 10:00 PM ET updted 11:00 PM and Friday

NEW YORK The film-makers and network responsible for the upcoming miniseries, "The Path to 9/11," which is now under assault for its alleged conservative bias, received critical support from a perhaps unexpected quarter on Friday -- The New York Times.

The paper's TV critic, Alessandra Stanley, declares the film "fictionalized" but still evenhanded. In another review today, Chicago Sun-Times TV critic Doug Elfman calls the movie a total "bore" and "amateurish." John Podhoretz, conservative columnist for the New York Post, labels it a "stiff" and attacks the film's depiction of Madeline Albright and Sandy Berger. USA Today's Robert Bianco writes that the movie "has enough trouble just following history. Rewriting history is an ambition it should have left at the door."

Harvey Keitel, the lead actor in the film, said in a TV interview that changes must be made in the film. He said when he was hired for the role he was told the movie was a "history" but then found that certain facts were "wrong." This led to "arguments," he recalled. "You can compile certain things as long as the truth remains the truth," he told Showbiz Tonight. "You can’t put these things together, compress them and then distort the reality....

"You cannot cross the line from a conflation of events to a distortion of the event. Where we have distorted something, we made a mistake and it should be corrected."

Meanwhile, the showbiz publication Variety reports that despite some last-minute editing "a bombshell decision may happen anyway: Sources close to the project say the network, which has been in a media maelstrom over the pic, is mulling the idea of yanking the mini altogether."...

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003118768

[SteppingRazor]

1. Go Harvey!

I knew Mr. White wouldn't let us down! :thumbsup:

[MessiahRp]

2. That Stanley person's review is hideous.

And the Reich Wingers consider the NYT a Liberal rag... :eyes:

Rp

[frylock]

3. received critical support from a perhaps unexpected quarter..

when are people going to wake up to the fact that the NYT is nothing short of a state-controlled propaganda outlet?