The bomb that blew a hole in Richard Jewell’s life — the bomb that killed two people and injured 111 others in Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park in 1996 — was small enough to fit into a large green backpack. But it was dense and deadly with metal piping and nails.
And somewhere inside, its clock was counting down.
From afar, the bomb could escape notice. Close up, though, and the threat was terrifying: Federal officials called it the largest such explosive device they had ever seen, weighing at least 40 lbs., wired to an alarm clock, with a steel plate positioned to direct...
And somewhere inside, its clock was counting down.
From afar, the bomb could escape notice. Close up, though, and the threat was terrifying: Federal officials called it the largest such explosive device they had ever seen, weighing at least 40 lbs., wired to an alarm clock, with a steel plate positioned to direct...
- 1/1/2020
- by Adam Carlson
- PEOPLE.com
Olivia Wilde took to Twitter today to further expound on her turn as late Atlanta Journal-Constitution journalist Kathy Scruggs in Clint Eastwood’s movie Richard Jewell, which has stirred up plenty of noise in the wake of its Nov. 20 AFI premiere. While the film looks to show how the innocent Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics security guard battled against a media backlash spurred by the Ajc breaking the story that he was the lead suspect, what has riled up the paper’s current editor Kevin Riley to the point of threatening a lawsuit against Warner Bros. and the filmmakers is how the film shows Scruggs exchanging sex for a leading tip from an FBI agent played by Jon Hamm.
Wilde exclaims today, “Contrary to a swath of recent headlines, I do not believe that Kathy ‘traded sex for tips’. Nothing in my research suggested she did so, and it was never my intention to suggest she had.
Wilde exclaims today, “Contrary to a swath of recent headlines, I do not believe that Kathy ‘traded sex for tips’. Nothing in my research suggested she did so, and it was never my intention to suggest she had.
- 12/12/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: In his first comments addressing the controversy surrounding Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell, which has culminated in a threatened defamation lawsuit by the Atlanta Journal- Constitution, the film’s screenwriter Billy Ray assailed the newspaper for failing to own up to its role in destroying the life of the security guard who spotted a suspicious backpack under a bench at an outdoor concert in Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Olympics and helped move bystanders away before an explosion left two dead and more than 100 injured.
The newspaper, in turn, has criticized the film’s depiction of Kathy Scruggs — who broke the story with Ron Martz that the FBI was eyeing Jewell as its prime suspect — as a promiscuous crime reporter who essentially traded a sexual encounter with an FBI agent for the tip. The film asserts that tip, and pressure from Scruggs, led the newspaper to tear up its...
The newspaper, in turn, has criticized the film’s depiction of Kathy Scruggs — who broke the story with Ron Martz that the FBI was eyeing Jewell as its prime suspect — as a promiscuous crime reporter who essentially traded a sexual encounter with an FBI agent for the tip. The film asserts that tip, and pressure from Scruggs, led the newspaper to tear up its...
- 12/12/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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