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NBC TV documentary featuring the seven episodes, 'The Long And Brutal War', 'The Helicopter War', 'The Grunt's War', 'The Enemy - Liberation Strategy', 'The Air Force At War', 'Here Come The Marines' and 'The Navy In Vietnam'. Read more
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Australian director Bruce Beresford is looking to cast a big name star in his next film, but says that fellow Aussie Russell Crowe is too old to be cast in the lead. Beresford, the acclaimed director of Driving Miss Daisy and Paradise Road, said that he would be happy to cast Crowe in another role in the film, a Vietnam War drama about the Battle of Long Tan. "The problem with war movies characteristically is that all the guys playing the soldiers are too old," news.com.au reports him Read more
Those blacked out words, lines and paragraphs in government and military reports? They've been redacted. So has the true face of the Iraq conflict, maintains Brian De Palma - and not just by the authorities, as you would expect, but by the news media. His question is simple: "Where are the images of this war?" It's obvious that he has a point. Save for carefully vetted reports from embedded journalists, Iraq is a black hole most of us struggle to imagine. De Palma is old enough to have... Read more
Brian De Palma is in hot water. Again. For a director who often seems more interested in form than content and who has devoted the bulk of his career to making mainstream entertainment for the Hollywood studios, it's surprising how regularly he upsets people. Even his fans have a love-hate relationship with this prodigiously gifted but perverse and erratic talent. Feminists picketed Dressed to Kill and Cuban refugees weren't flattered by Scarface either. But that's nothing on the US reaction... Read more
When politicians talk about the battle for hearts and minds in a conflict situation, they are usually talking about winning over the support of the local citizens caught in the war zone, though it could also apply to their own constituents, whose tacit approval allows the fighting to continue. In the Vietnam War, the phrase was a favourite of Lyndon Johnson, who believed that by supplying the Vietnamese with electricity and hope for a better future, the US could undermine support for the... Read more