AJC to Eastwood: Go ahead, make a disclaimer

No scooter parking in those aisles

 

By ignoring the real sociopath and focusing on the chubby white guy who was wrongly accused but freed before he went to trial, was convicted and executed.

 

It’s a fascinating story — I was near (but not in) Centennial Park that night so I’ve always taken an interest in how this played out and will definitely see the movie when it is on cable or streams. Given Eastwood’s politics, a “don’t trust the media and the FBI” message is bound to be polarizing, which is a shame because he’s a really good storyteller.

 

So you’re saying the movie ...

bombed?

 

Really feel bad for the guy playing Jewell - you get a call from Eastwood casting you in a title role after doing a handful of character parts (though he was in BlackKKlansman and I Tonya)....seems like just getting the role helped him though - he'd already done another Spike Lee film and a live action 101 Dalmatians bit.

 

I got out of the Navy and started college in '94. I think I'd just seen the movie Blown Away where Tommy Lee Jones was an IRA bomber in the U.S. I had a class assignment where I fleshed out short story about a guy bombing U.S. government buildings in the southeast. Then Timothy McVeigh and Eric Rudolph came along. I decided to toss the story idea so no one thought it was some sort of nut job manifesto instead of just something for a writing class.

 

I wonder if there's a kind of "fatigue" with his kind of movies at this point. He's churning out about one a year now. Then again, "Sully" and "American Sniper" were in 2014 and 2016, so it's not like they're in the distant past.

 

Just happened to watch Absence of Malice last night.

I cannot really explain it but, from what I've read here and elsewhere, there seems to be some sort of odd similarities i.e. the plots ... journalism conflicts and set-up of reporters.

Having stated that, I realize Absence of Malice is fiction and I have not seen any proof the late Kathy Scruggs did anything wrong doing her job. EDIT: Upon further review, sounds like Richard Jewell is too, at least in certain aspects.

 

Just change the name.

 

My wife was walking on the sidewalk a block down the street when Eric Rudolph's bomb blew at the Birmingham abortion clinic. A few minutes different timing and she might have been a casualty.

SMH. What a world.

 

Well, I meant Clint could/ should have changed the name of "Kathy Scruggs" to "Katie Schmugh" or some such, made it an expressly fictional character.