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Dec 13, 2019 · The Richard Jewell Controversy—And the Complicated Truth About Kathy Scruggs. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has attacked Clint Eastwood’s Jewell biopic for its portrayal of the late...
Dec 11, 2019 · With only days left before “Richard Jewell” hits theaters, lawyers for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and its parent company, Cox Enterprises, have demanded that Warner Bros. slap a...
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Dec 14, 2019 · Clint Eastwood's "Richard Jewell" misrepresents a reporter's actions, but its bigger lie is its Trumpian view of American institutions.
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Based on a 1997 Vanity Fair article by Marie Brenner, Richard Jewell’s broad narrative cleaves closely to reality. Jewell, a former sheriff’s deputy and later a campus police officer, was working security at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta when he came across a suspicious backpack near his post at a light and sound tower at Centennial Olympic Park. Th...
Shortly after the bombing, Jewell was labeled the principal suspect in the FBI’s investigation. According to Brenner, a tip-off came from one of Jewell’s former employers, Piedmont College president Ray Cleere, who had had disagreements over campus policing with Jewell. Cleere suggested that Jewell himself might have been the bomber, planting and t...
Through those trials, Jewell benefited from an unconventional partnership with his lawyer Watson Bryant, as depicted in the film. According to Brenner, the two had met 10 years earlier, when Jewell worked in the mailroom at Bryant’s office. Bryant wasn’t exactly a hot-shot defense lawyer—at the time, he was practicing real-estate law. But enraged b...
In real life, it took many more years and a good deal more police work to bring the real bomber to justice. The culprit, Eric Robert Rudolph, wasn’t captured until 2003, after evading the FBI for five years and perpetrating three other bombings. In an 11-page confessionreleased in 2005, he claimed to be motivated by hatred of gay rights, abortion a...
No character in Richard Jewellmore thoroughly embodies the film’s view of an amoral, mercenary media than Kathy Scruggs, the cackling, trash-talking crime reporter who breaks the story on the FBI’s Jewell probe after (as the movie strongly implies) offering a liaison with Hamm’s Agent Shaw. That version of events has garnered controversy leading up...
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Dec 13, 2019 · Richard Jewell Controversy: Fact, Fiction, And Reporter Kathy Scruggs. Fact Vs. Fiction In ‘Richard Jewell’: A Look At Why Kathy Scruggs Deserved Better. Vince Mancini Senior Film &...
Dec 21, 2019 · Richard Jewell has generated controversy for its portrayal of Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Kathy Scruggs (Olivia Wilde), who was the first journalist to state that Jewell was a suspect....
Dec 16, 2019 · “Richard Jewell,” a biopic about the man falsely accused of bombing the 1996 Olympics, implies that real-life reporter Kathy Scruggs slept with an FBI agent in exchange for a scoop about the...
