John Glenn died Thursday at the age of 95. One of the founding figures of the U.S. space program and also a long-serving U.S. Senator, Glenn had a profoundly historic and uniquely American life. Let’s take a closer look.
Glenn was born in Cambridge, Ohio, in 1921. He went to elementary and high school in New Concord, Ohio, and attended Muskingum College in the same town, though he didn’t complete his senior year at the school, opting to drop out at 20 and enlist in the U.S. Air Corps after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, according to the New York Times.
Glenn was born in Cambridge, Ohio, in 1921. He went to elementary and high school in New Concord, Ohio, and attended Muskingum College in the same town, though he didn’t complete his senior year at the school, opting to drop out at 20 and enlist in the U.S. Air Corps after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, according to the New York Times.
- 12/8/2016
- by alexheigl
- PEOPLE.com
Angelina Jolie has long displayed a proclivity for projects based on true accounts of wartime, especially in her behind-the-camera work: the actress-turned-filmmaker made her directorial debut with “In the Land of Blood and Honey” and followed it with the World War II drama “Unbroken.” She may continue that trend with “Shoot Like a Girl,” which she’s currently in talks to headline.
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The film is based on Air Force Major Mary Jennings Hegar’s memoir “Shoot Like a Girl: How One Woman’s War Against the Taliban Led to Her Victory Over the Department of Defense,” which is set to be published next spring. Jolie would play Hegar, who received a Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross during her three tours as a helicopter pilot in Afghanistan.
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The film is based on Air Force Major Mary Jennings Hegar’s memoir “Shoot Like a Girl: How One Woman’s War Against the Taliban Led to Her Victory Over the Department of Defense,” which is set to be published next spring. Jolie would play Hegar, who received a Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross during her three tours as a helicopter pilot in Afghanistan.
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- 10/2/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Angelina Jolie is ready to get back to work. The Oscar-winning actress is in talks to star in the war-themed biopic Shoot Like a Girl, based on the upcoming memoir by Air Force Maj. Mary Jennings Hegar, Entertainment Weekly reports.Hegar, a decorated veteran who was awarded the Purple Heart and is only the sixth woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross, was a rescue pilot who served three tours in Afghanistan and later saved the lives of several Americans held captive. Off the field, she filed and won a lawsuit that sought to end the Pentagon's ban on placing...
- 10/1/2016
- by Alexis L. Loinaz, @alexisloinaz
- PEOPLE.com
Angelina Jolie is ready to get back to work. The Oscar-winning actress is in talks to star in the war-themed biopic Shoot Like a Girl, based on the upcoming memoir by Air Force Maj. Mary Jennings Hegar, Entertainment Weekly reports.Hegar, a decorated veteran who was awarded the Purple Heart and is only the sixth woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross, was a rescue pilot who served three tours in Afghanistan and later saved the lives of several Americans held captive. Off the field, she filed and won a lawsuit that sought to end the Pentagon's ban on placing...
- 10/1/2016
- by Alexis L. Loinaz, @alexisloinaz
- PEOPLE.com
Sensing the makings of a thought-provoking hit, TriStar has snapped up movie rights to Mary Jennings Hegar’s wartime memoir, Shoot Like A Girl: How One Woman’s War Against the Taliban Led to Her Victory Over the Department of Defense, with Angelina Jolie circling the title role – and that’s before Hegar’s work of nonfiction has even hit shelves.
Set for release in March of next year, Hegar’s memoir chronicles her story on the front lines of Afghanistan, serving three tours as a rescue helicopter pilot during the throes of the Iraq war. Hegar, now a decorated Air Force Major, earned the coveted Purple Heart and the Distinguished Flying Cross accolades for her service, but what really makes her story rather remarkable is the fact that all of this came after Hegar challenged the Combat Exclusion Policy, one designed to prevent women from being deployed in combat duty.
Set for release in March of next year, Hegar’s memoir chronicles her story on the front lines of Afghanistan, serving three tours as a rescue helicopter pilot during the throes of the Iraq war. Hegar, now a decorated Air Force Major, earned the coveted Purple Heart and the Distinguished Flying Cross accolades for her service, but what really makes her story rather remarkable is the fact that all of this came after Hegar challenged the Combat Exclusion Policy, one designed to prevent women from being deployed in combat duty.
- 9/30/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
With Angelina Jolie‘s personal life taking up plenty of tabloid space and media time at the moment, sometimes the best defence is a good offence. In other other words, give outlets something else to talk about. And that’s just what Jolie is doing heading into the weekend.
Deadline reports that the actress is in early talks to star in “Shoot Like A Girl.” Frank Baldwin has penned the script, based on the upcoming memoir “Shoot Like A Girl: One Woman’s Dramatic Fight In Afghanistan and on the Home Front” by Air Force Major Mary Jennings Hegar, that tells the true story of the author’s three tours in Afghanistan which saw her win the Purple Heart and become the sixth woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross.
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Deadline reports that the actress is in early talks to star in “Shoot Like A Girl.” Frank Baldwin has penned the script, based on the upcoming memoir “Shoot Like A Girl: One Woman’s Dramatic Fight In Afghanistan and on the Home Front” by Air Force Major Mary Jennings Hegar, that tells the true story of the author’s three tours in Afghanistan which saw her win the Purple Heart and become the sixth woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross.
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- 9/30/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Angelina Jolie is in early talks to star in TriStar's adaptation Shoot Like a Girl. The film is based the book Shoot Like A Girl: How One Woman’s War Against the Taliban Led to Her Victory Over the Department of Defense, an upcoming memoir by Air Force Major Mary Jennings Hegar that will hit shelves in March 2017. Hegar, who Jolie would play, served three tours in Afghanistan as an elite rescue helicopter pilot. She earned a Purple Heart and the Distinguished Flying Cross for her work. She also opened the front lines for women by successfully taking on the
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- 9/30/2016
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Four helicopter trips into a combat zone. Forty-four people saved. Forty-nine years. It would be difficult to sum up Lieutenant Colonel Charles Kettles' life in numbers, but those are the essential ones. In May 1967, two years into America's ground war in Vietnam, Kettles, then a major, was the lead pilot of six helicopter crews sent to rescue a group of American paratroopers trapped by North Vietnamese troops. Monday, he received the nation's highest honor, the Congressional Medal of Honor, for his efforts. "A soldier never leaves his comrades behind," President Barack Obama said Monday when he presented Kettles, 86, with the Medal.
- 7/19/2016
- by Alex Heigl, @alex_heigl
- PEOPLE.com
Four helicopter trips into a combat zone. Forty-four people saved. Forty-nine years. It would be difficult to sum up Lieutenant Colonel Charles Kettles' life in numbers, but those are the essential ones. In May 1967, two years into America's ground war in Vietnam, Kettles, then a major, was the lead pilot of six helicopter crews sent to rescue a group of American paratroopers trapped by North Vietnamese troops. Monday, he received the nation's highest honor, the Congressional Medal of Honor, for his efforts. "A soldier never leaves his comrades behind," President Barack Obama said Monday when he presented Kettles, 86, with the Medal.
- 7/19/2016
- by Alex Heigl, @alex_heigl
- PEOPLE.com
Oscar-winning British cinematographer who worked on a wide range of film classics
The Oscar-winning British cinematographer Oswald Morris, who has died aged 98, will be remembered for many classics, including Moulin Rouge, Fiddler on the Roof, Moby Dick and Lolita. He worked with some of the great directors, John Huston, Sidney Lumet, Carol Reed, Stanley Kubrick and Franco Zeffirelli. Many of Morris's films are landmarks in the history of colour cinematography. For Moulin Rouge (1952) he used filters to create a style reminiscent of paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec. For Fiddler on the Roof (1971), which won him an Oscar, he filmed with a silk stocking over the lens to give a sepia effect.
Morris also shot popular favourites such as The Guns of Navarone (1961), Oliver! (1968), The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) and The Man Who Would Be King (1975), and photographed acting luminaries: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Gregory Peck and Humphrey Bogart.
The Oscar-winning British cinematographer Oswald Morris, who has died aged 98, will be remembered for many classics, including Moulin Rouge, Fiddler on the Roof, Moby Dick and Lolita. He worked with some of the great directors, John Huston, Sidney Lumet, Carol Reed, Stanley Kubrick and Franco Zeffirelli. Many of Morris's films are landmarks in the history of colour cinematography. For Moulin Rouge (1952) he used filters to create a style reminiscent of paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec. For Fiddler on the Roof (1971), which won him an Oscar, he filmed with a silk stocking over the lens to give a sepia effect.
Morris also shot popular favourites such as The Guns of Navarone (1961), Oliver! (1968), The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) and The Man Who Would Be King (1975), and photographed acting luminaries: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Gregory Peck and Humphrey Bogart.
- 3/20/2014
- by Brian Baxter
- The Guardian - Film News
He said he would eat a bug to get you to buy a car. He promised that he would even stand upon his head until his ears were turning red if you would just, "Go see Cal." Whether Cal Worthington actually did those things is uncertain. But one thing is not: In car-obsessed Southern California in the 1950s, where automobile pitchmen would slam vehicle hoods, kick tires, scream into television cameras, adding that they were crazy to make a deal, Worthington stood taller and lasted longer than any of them. Worthington, who died Sunday at age 92 and is survived by six children and nine grandchildren,...
- 9/10/2013
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
This is a story I told to Joe Kubert. He loved it, said to write it up and he would use it as a backup in Sgt. Rock.
1943. Somewhere over Burma. The Dragonfly Squadron, inheritors of the famed Flying Tigers, is returning to base after flying a coverage mission for Merrill’s Marauders. First Lieutenant Meyer “Mike” C. Newell is flying wingman to his best bud, First Lieutenant Benjamin “Blackie” Blackstone. They met in training, and have been flying together ever since. The P-51D’s are pretty banged up, but the planes are the workhorses of the Cbi and the pilots are confident that they will make it back to base, even though Johnson’s aircraft is leaking hydraulic fluid.
It is the rainy season in Burma and the landing strip, cleared out of the jungle overgrowth by Army engineers and sun-baked and rock-hard during the dry months, is...
1943. Somewhere over Burma. The Dragonfly Squadron, inheritors of the famed Flying Tigers, is returning to base after flying a coverage mission for Merrill’s Marauders. First Lieutenant Meyer “Mike” C. Newell is flying wingman to his best bud, First Lieutenant Benjamin “Blackie” Blackstone. They met in training, and have been flying together ever since. The P-51D’s are pretty banged up, but the planes are the workhorses of the Cbi and the pilots are confident that they will make it back to base, even though Johnson’s aircraft is leaking hydraulic fluid.
It is the rainy season in Burma and the landing strip, cleared out of the jungle overgrowth by Army engineers and sun-baked and rock-hard during the dry months, is...
- 12/31/2012
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
Former United States Senator, and Presidential candidate, George McGovern.
In 2005, I had the good fortune to interview former Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern for Venice Magazine, in conjunction with the release of Stephen Vittoria's documentary "One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern," which looked at McGovern's ill-fated 1972 bid for the White House. During our interview, and during a lengthy dinner at Kate Mantilini in Beverly Hills several months later, (which happened to fall on what would have been the 80th birthday of his close friend, Robert F. Kennedy), McGovern was thoughtful, direct, and kind-hearted; a gentleman and a gentle man. When we raised a glass to toast Bobby Kennedy's memory, Senator McGovern said quietly "Bobby made us all want to be better people." A more fitting valediction of George McGovern couldn't be said. Rest in peace.
George McGovern Shines On
By
Alex Simon
Editor's...
In 2005, I had the good fortune to interview former Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern for Venice Magazine, in conjunction with the release of Stephen Vittoria's documentary "One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern," which looked at McGovern's ill-fated 1972 bid for the White House. During our interview, and during a lengthy dinner at Kate Mantilini in Beverly Hills several months later, (which happened to fall on what would have been the 80th birthday of his close friend, Robert F. Kennedy), McGovern was thoughtful, direct, and kind-hearted; a gentleman and a gentle man. When we raised a glass to toast Bobby Kennedy's memory, Senator McGovern said quietly "Bobby made us all want to be better people." A more fitting valediction of George McGovern couldn't be said. Rest in peace.
George McGovern Shines On
By
Alex Simon
Editor's...
- 10/22/2012
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Even as I carry on updating the entry on Doc NYC, there's quite a lot besides going on in the field of nonfiction filmmaking. Last week, both the International Documentary Association and Cinema Eye Honors announced the nominations for their respective awards, and yesterday, Cinema Eye unveiled "a new, periodic award called the Hell Yeah Prize, to be given to filmmakers who have created works of incredible craft and artistry that also have significant, real-world impact. The inaugural Hell Yeah Prize will be presented to Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky for their HBO Documentary Films trilogy Paradise Lost, which played a critical role in securing the release from prison of the wrongly prosecuted and convicted West Memphis Three."
And the other day, when I pointed to Dennis Lim's review of Travis Wilkerson's An Injury to One (2002), "one of American independent cinema's great achievements of the past decade, just issued on DVD by Icarus Films,...
And the other day, when I pointed to Dennis Lim's review of Travis Wilkerson's An Injury to One (2002), "one of American independent cinema's great achievements of the past decade, just issued on DVD by Icarus Films,...
- 11/4/2011
- MUBI
I want to bang the drum a bit for Far From Afghanistan, a project inspired by the 1967 omnibus film, Far From Vietnam. The roster of contributing filmmakers is impressive to say the least: John Gianvito (Profit motive and the whispering wind), Jon Jost (All The Vermeers in New York), Minda Martin (Free Land), Travis Wilkerson (Distinguished Flying Cross) and Soon-Mi Yoo (Dangerous Supplement). You can read about each of their new films here, but overall, the goal is "to contribute to the international effort to redirect Us policy away from military and political intervention toward true humanitarian and developmental care-giving." If that strikes a chord, you might consider chipping in to the Kickstarter campaign. For one week, starting on October 6, you can watch the works-in-progress.
Isabelle Marinoni's essay "Surrealism in the Service of the Fantastic: Jean Rollin, a 'Parallel' Director in Libertarian French Cinema" makes for a nifty supplement to Arena,...
Isabelle Marinoni's essay "Surrealism in the Service of the Fantastic: Jean Rollin, a 'Parallel' Director in Libertarian French Cinema" makes for a nifty supplement to Arena,...
- 9/23/2011
- MUBI
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