07-03-2010, 10:03 AM
James Douglass made it come alive, how Jack and Bobby were there in 1951, and learned first hand how the French failed at something America should not repeat.
Certainly the long cold wall of names is an indictment of John Kennedy's killers.
Tom Hanks is blithely willing to exonerate the men who murdered not just our president, but fifty-eight thousand of our fellow Americans.
Hanks the poseur has the opportunity to unmask the evil which took possession of the national soul this half-century.
It would require genuine courage, not makeup, a script, and guaranteed accolades. Is he at last merely shallow.
Or ready to make the cinematic masterpiece whch finally shatters the power structure into a thousand pieces, some new daring assault on conventional wisdom where Blow-Up meets Seven Days in May, and the Guns of November lead relentlessly to the long black wall.
If he reads Douglass, he can never go back down the yellow brick road.
Certainly the long cold wall of names is an indictment of John Kennedy's killers.
Tom Hanks is blithely willing to exonerate the men who murdered not just our president, but fifty-eight thousand of our fellow Americans.
Hanks the poseur has the opportunity to unmask the evil which took possession of the national soul this half-century.
It would require genuine courage, not makeup, a script, and guaranteed accolades. Is he at last merely shallow.
Or ready to make the cinematic masterpiece whch finally shatters the power structure into a thousand pieces, some new daring assault on conventional wisdom where Blow-Up meets Seven Days in May, and the Guns of November lead relentlessly to the long black wall.
If he reads Douglass, he can never go back down the yellow brick road.