The second episode of the spine-chilling true story of a manhunt for one of the deadliest terrorists, Ghosts of Beirut, was released today. Previously, we’d been introduced to Lebanese local Imad Mughniyeh, who took it to heart to rid his country of Israeli and American presence by orchestrating suicide bomber attacks. After a suicide bomber drove a truck to the US Embassy and killed CIA operative Robert Ames, among others, the US government started taking the Lebanese situation seriously. However, poor decisions and a lack of planning were to lead to far more damage to the mission and CIA’s integrity, as we’re to see in this week’s episode of Ghosts of Beirut.
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Who Was William Buckley?
Showtime miniseries have proven that bad decisions have become synonymous with intelligence organization chiefs when faced with threats and terrorists. After Waco, where the Atf and FBI sent...
Spoilers Ahead
Who Was William Buckley?
Showtime miniseries have proven that bad decisions have become synonymous with intelligence organization chiefs when faced with threats and terrorists. After Waco, where the Atf and FBI sent...
- 5/28/2023
- by Indrayudh Talukdar
- Film Fugitives
Imad Mughniyeh was responsible for more American deaths in terrorist attacks before the devastating 9/11 bombings and was able to outsmart not only the CIA but also the Mossad. Making matters even more difficult was the fact that no one knew what he looked like. By 2001, he was on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list with a $15 million bounty for information leading to his arrest. The reward was later bumped up to $25 million. He ultimately appeared on the most wanted list in 42 countries before he died was assassinated at the age of 45 in a car bombing in 2008.
Showtime’s new limited series “Ghosts of Beirut” shines the spotlight on the terrorist and the CIA and Mossad’s attempts to capture him. The Washington Post’s national security reporter Shane Harris recently conducted a Zoom conversation with co-creators Greg Barker and Avi Issacharoff and star Dina Shihabi.
“He’s one of...
Showtime’s new limited series “Ghosts of Beirut” shines the spotlight on the terrorist and the CIA and Mossad’s attempts to capture him. The Washington Post’s national security reporter Shane Harris recently conducted a Zoom conversation with co-creators Greg Barker and Avi Issacharoff and star Dina Shihabi.
“He’s one of...
- 5/19/2023
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
The End Of The Tour, A24’s Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel pic about writer David Foster Wallace and a reporter profiling him, got off to a solid beginning with a launch in 4 New York and L.A. theaters, one of a handful of new specialty movies this weekend. A couple of high profile Sundance docs also performed well in their openings. Magnolia’s Gore Vidal/William F. Buckley doc Best Of Enemies did fine in three theaters, and Showtime Documentary Listen To Me Marlon had a respectable debut in two cinemas. A Lego Brickumentary opened slow but built some blocks on demand. And Broad Green expanded Samba by 20 additional theaters in its second frame.
James Ponsoldt’s The End Of The Tour grossed $126,459, averaging $31,615. That’s an impressive per screen debut for a Sundance 2015 acquisition, beating Fox Searchlight’s Me and Earl and the Dying Girl’s opening weekend...
James Ponsoldt’s The End Of The Tour grossed $126,459, averaging $31,615. That’s an impressive per screen debut for a Sundance 2015 acquisition, beating Fox Searchlight’s Me and Earl and the Dying Girl’s opening weekend...
- 8/2/2015
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
Broadway will dim its lights Friday night in honor of Gore Vidal, The Broadway League announced today.
The marquees of all Broadway theaters will be dimmed for one minute at 8:00 p.m. in his memory. Vidal, a prolific author and playwright, passed away Tuesday at age 86.
A revival of his play, The Best Man, is currently on Broadway at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre starring James Earl Jones, Cybill Shepherd, John Larroquette and others. The show was originally performed in 1960. A movie version, which Vidal wrote the screenplay for, was released in 1964.
“For over six decades, Gore Vidal never stopped writing novels,...
The marquees of all Broadway theaters will be dimmed for one minute at 8:00 p.m. in his memory. Vidal, a prolific author and playwright, passed away Tuesday at age 86.
A revival of his play, The Best Man, is currently on Broadway at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre starring James Earl Jones, Cybill Shepherd, John Larroquette and others. The show was originally performed in 1960. A movie version, which Vidal wrote the screenplay for, was released in 1964.
“For over six decades, Gore Vidal never stopped writing novels,...
- 8/1/2012
- by Erin Strecker
- EW.com - PopWatch
Famed author author, playwright and commentator Gore Vidal passed away today at the age of 86. The sharp-tongued author, known for novels such as "Burr" and "Breckinridge" and plays like "The Best Man," was a cultural giant during the 1960s and 1970s, habitually appearing on television to verbally spar with foes like Norman Mailer and William Buckley.
Known as a celebrity figure with a personality that rivaled Truman Capote, Vidal also worked on a number of screenplays, one of which became a cult classic --"Caligula." It was originally produced in 1979, but major disagreements between Vidal and the producer, Bob Guccione, led the former to distance himself from the project. But in 2005, artist and filmmaker Francesco Vezzoli sought to return the legacy of "Caligula" to its rightful owner, creating a a short film, titled "Trailer for the Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula." In the faux-trailer, several Hollywood stars (including original "Caligula...
Known as a celebrity figure with a personality that rivaled Truman Capote, Vidal also worked on a number of screenplays, one of which became a cult classic --"Caligula." It was originally produced in 1979, but major disagreements between Vidal and the producer, Bob Guccione, led the former to distance himself from the project. But in 2005, artist and filmmaker Francesco Vezzoli sought to return the legacy of "Caligula" to its rightful owner, creating a a short film, titled "Trailer for the Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula." In the faux-trailer, several Hollywood stars (including original "Caligula...
- 8/1/2012
- by Katherine Brooks
- Huffington Post
The Devil’s Claim (1920) Direction: Charles Swickard Screenplay: J. Grubb Alexander Cast: Sessue Hayakawa, Rhea Mitchell, Colleen Moore, William Buckley In The Devil’s Claim, Sessue Hayakawa plays an Indian (!) novelist who uses his experiences with women as inspiration for his novels. Next, he encounters a young American woman (Rhea Mitchell) who tells him a story about Satan-worshipping societies and evil talismans. Her real motive, however, is to reunite the novelist with Indora (future 1920s superstar Colleen Moore), a young Persian girl whom he had abandoned. Directed by Charles Swickard from a screenplay by J. Grubb Alexander, The Devil’s Claim is an excellent drama — and so is Hayakawa’s performance. Much of the plot is told in the "story within a story" mode, [...]...
- 10/29/2009
- by James Bazen
- Alt Film Guide
It's always amusing when certain conservative bloggers reach for their smelling salts to deplore the vulgar language and coarse ribaldry on liberal blogs, which demonstrates (to them) that liberals are incapable of expressing themselves without fouling the King's English and leaving a nasty carpet stain. From the way some of these upholders of propriety and gentility go on, you'd think conservative blogs were the tender caretakers of the tradition of G. K. Chesterton, Ronald Knox, the Roman philosophers, the St. James version of the Bible, and William Buckley's witticisms, deploying patient logic and persuasion while the Kossacks and the T'boggers run wild with their incontinent words and feelings and Wiffle Ball bats. But it doesn't take too long a stroll along the gamy storefronts of conservative blogs to come across boiling snake pits of cursing, personal attack, and raw bigotry that give lie to this pretense of civility and clerical composure.
- 4/24/2009
- Vanity Fair
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