Former President Bill Clinton guested on The Late Late Show with James Corden early Thursday, in a wide ranging interview that touched on efforts at gun reform and plans to restart the Clinton Global Initiative.
But at one point, Corden asked Clinton what keeps him so optimistic. While Clinton cited children and grandchildren and their hopes for the future, he said that he also wasn’t too Pollyanna-ish about the state of democracy.
“I actually think there is a fair chance we could completely lose our constitutional democracy for a couple of decades if we make bad decisions,” Clinton said. “I am not naive about this. I have been in a lot of fights. I have lost some and won a bunch. I have been elated and heartbroken. But I have never before been as worried about the structure of our democratic form of government.”
He added that “so far,...
But at one point, Corden asked Clinton what keeps him so optimistic. While Clinton cited children and grandchildren and their hopes for the future, he said that he also wasn’t too Pollyanna-ish about the state of democracy.
“I actually think there is a fair chance we could completely lose our constitutional democracy for a couple of decades if we make bad decisions,” Clinton said. “I am not naive about this. I have been in a lot of fights. I have lost some and won a bunch. I have been elated and heartbroken. But I have never before been as worried about the structure of our democratic form of government.”
He added that “so far,...
- 6/16/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Are the Departed coming back again? The Boston Herald reports that Martin Scorsese, Oscar-winning writer William Monahan, and producer Graham King will make another Boston gangster movie together.
"Now don't breathe a word of this. Because nobody's supposed to know," writes Herald reporters of the acquisition of the rights to the story of hitman John Martorano. "Scorsese met secretly with the Winter Hill Gang hitman at an Italian restaurant in the Back Bay while The Departed director was in town making Shutter Island.
Martorano served 14 years in prison for killing 20 people, which you have to admit, is a pretty lenient per-murder average. He later became a snitch, or if you prefer, a government witness who helped expose an illegal relationship between the FBI and his boss, James "Whitey" Bulger, an inspiration for the Jack Nicholson character in The Departed.
For good reason, the very hint that this story will be...
"Now don't breathe a word of this. Because nobody's supposed to know," writes Herald reporters of the acquisition of the rights to the story of hitman John Martorano. "Scorsese met secretly with the Winter Hill Gang hitman at an Italian restaurant in the Back Bay while The Departed director was in town making Shutter Island.
Martorano served 14 years in prison for killing 20 people, which you have to admit, is a pretty lenient per-murder average. He later became a snitch, or if you prefer, a government witness who helped expose an illegal relationship between the FBI and his boss, James "Whitey" Bulger, an inspiration for the Jack Nicholson character in The Departed.
For good reason, the very hint that this story will be...
- 12/30/2008
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
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