Salon: "PT911" not scriptwriter's first "crockudrama":

[JHB]

According to Salon today, it turns out that The Path to 9/11 wasn't the first "crocudrama" penned by scriptwriter by Cyrus Nowrasteh: The executive producer and director hired him after reading his script for the 2001 Showtime "docudrama" The Day Reagan was Shot (directed by oliver Stone, no less).

For any wingnuts who want to claim PT911 was well-researched, Salon quotes some commentary on Nowrasteh's previous "well researched" effort. The commentator? Richard V. Allen, former Reagan National Security Advisor (not exactly a patron saint to us to the left of Attilla the Hun):

"How do I know it is fictional? Because I was there. Oh, and I had a tape recorder ...

"Situation Room meetings are rarely tape-recorded, but because we were dealing with a national emergency that afternoon, I placed my own small recorder in the center of the table. I captured the entire proceedings, about six hours. Written versions of these events have appeared since, some mostly accurate, others mostly inaccurate, but none has approached 'The Day Reagan Was Shot' for brazen distortion ...

"The film places generals in the Situation Room when they were not there; introduces conversations that never occurred; claims that a 'red alert from NORAD' was in progress (there is no such thing) and that a Soviet 'wolf pack' was off our coast with malign intent. (It wasn't: There were more Soviet subs than usual because it was the end-of-the-month changeover day, as we figured out within 20 minutes.) ...

"Messrs. Stone and Nowrasteh had completed their shoot by the time I wrote an account of the March 1981 events in the Atlantic Monthly, on the 20th anniversary. They then had a problem: They needed to validate their version and had not known about my tapes. I insisted on seeing the film before talking with Mr. Stone's people, and after I did, Mr. Nowrasteh had the temerity to say that the tapes 'corroborate our movie.' They do no such thing ...

"Maybe the whole thing was meant as a comedy. If not, it is simply a swindle."

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/09/12/911/index.html
:toast: :rofl: :spray:

"Fiction"? "Swindle"? "Teremity" to claim "corroborate our movie"?
It's deja vu all over again!



For anyone who wants to pony up $4.95 for Allen's original WSJ article, here's the link:
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/wsj/access/94908277.html?dids=94908277:94908277&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Dec+14%2C+2001&author=By+Richard+V.+Allen&pub=Wall+Street+Journal&edition=Eastern+edition&startpage=W.21&type=91_1996&desc=Taste%3A+The+Day+the+Truth+Was+Shot+---+Oliver+Stone+tries+history+again

[Cooley Hurd]

1. I saw "The Day Reagan Was Shot," and it struck me odd how they portrayed

...Poppy Bush as this stoic, heroic figure in control while everyone else was freaking out.

This might be indicative who's ultimately paying Cyrus to write such shit:

[wakeme2008]

2. IMHO Poppy was to Reagon what Dick is to Junior

Both could not come out of the rain unless somebody told them too.

[iamahaingttta]

3. No, that's not quite right...

The Reagans (particularly Nancy) HATED the Bushs, and Poppy was behind the attempt on Dutch's life in '81. Reagan's California crew tried to do everything they could to keep Poppy in the wilderness, but he was too connected.

Try this for a little light bedtime reading:

http://www.tarpley.net/bushb.htm#Table

[wakeme2008]

5. Thanks for the link I will read later

:)

[ccpup]

4. If Cyrus keeps this up

he'll become even MORE persona non grata in Hollywood than he already is. Kinda hard to "take over the film business and install 'Christian Values'" if no one returns your calls, is willing to meet with you publicly and -- especially -- sees the pathetic tripe (no offense to tripe) you call a movie.

He's a footnote the Freepers will insist is a genius filmmaker.

[Atman]

6. Uh...what's with that URL?

I have a wide-screen monitor, and I still had to scroll a foot to the right!

Anyway...good post. :)

[JHB]

7. It's just very long...

...and I'm a little fuzzy on how to give it a short label.