23-02-2013, 02:25 PM
(This post was last modified: 23-02-2013, 03:46 PM by Charles Drago.)
Phil Dragoo Wrote:We got The Package on Charles' recommendation and it clearly shows the mutual benefit to the refined predators at the top of the lookinglass milint gangs.
Executive Action pretty well sums up the Prouty hypothesis. Mark Lane a very talented human being.
Redford isn't believable; the book had twice as many days and was more coldly objective.
The Day of the Jackal is a masterpiece in book and film. The cold ruthlessness of the cipher paid for the contract, his chameleon anonymity.
Blow-Up (1966) offers a brush with hidden murder which has a self-concealing power operating invisibly.
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Oliver Stone's JFK was handicapped by Kevin Costner as Jim Garrison. Exhuming Robert Mitchum would've been closer.
Jim DiEugenio has written of the unspeakable attack on Garrison. Charles could write a screenplay. Reach out for Robert Mitchum.
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FWIW:
1. The long-standing rumor among New York literary types is that The Day of the Jackal was written by Frederick Forsyth's editor (either at Hutchinson in the UK or Viking Press in the US).
2. A copy of the Hebrew translation of the novel was found among the possessions of Yigal Amir, who may have assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995.
3. As a very young buck I actually met Mitchum during the filming of the classic The Friends of Eddie Coyle. Somehow I had secured one ticket to a Boston Bruins hockey game. It was at the height of the Bobby Orr era, and the opponent that night in the long-gone Boston Garden was the hated Chicago Blackhawks. I had what was termed an "obstructed view" seat -- directly behind a pillar supporting the arena's roof -- in the last row. As it happened, Mitchum and Peter Boyle were about four seats away, where they were getting ready to shoot one of the movie's pivotal scenes. I screwed up my courage, walked over, and shook his hand. He asked me if I knew the George V. Higgins novel (I later learned that Mitchum was celebrated for being well-read), and we talked for what seemed like five minutes or so about Higgins's masterful use of dialogue. He was natural, accessible, and very kind to a young fan. I'll never forget my brush with the legend known as Robert Mitchum. Great casting choice, Phil.
4. The Package is most important for its depiction of assassination conspirators described by George Michael Evica (within the context of JFK's murder) as civilian and military intelligence officers and assets "whose masters were above Cold War differences."