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 Support The DrudgeReport; Visit Our Advertisers  H'WOOD SET TO UNLEASH ANTI-WAR FILMS Wed Jul 25 2007 19:07:35 ET Several upcoming Hollywood films use the damaged Iraq veteran to raise questions about an ongoing war, the NEW YORK TIMES is planning to report on Thursday Page Ones, newsroom sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT. "Media in general responds much more quickly than ever before. Why shouldn't movies do the same?" said Scott Rudin, a producer of 'STOP LOSS,' which casts Ryan Phillippe as a veteran who defies an order that would send him back to Iraq. The film, he said, was deliberately scheduled to be released in the middle of the presidential election season. The TIMES's showbiz reporter Cieply is set to details how in the past, Hollywood usually gave the veteran more breathing space. William Wyler's 'BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES,' about the travails of those returning from World War II, was released more than a year after the war's end. Similarly, Hal Ashby's 'COMING HOME' and Oliver Stone's 'BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY,' both Vietnam stories, came well behind the fall of Saigon. Developing... |
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