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Post by Michael on Dec 23, 2010 14:38:28 GMT -5
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Post by sue75 on Jan 18, 2011 19:10:51 GMT -5
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Post by Michael on Jan 27, 2011 13:12:33 GMT -5
I wanted to let everyone know that whatever is in this movie concerning the Lindbergh Case - it should be right on the money.
Mark Falzini is being consulted, and he spent a lot of time with the Prop Master, as well as other Staff, photographing evidence, taking measurements, etc. They specifically wanted to make sure everything in the movie is as accurate as possible.
They went to the right guy.
I absolutely cannot wait to see this movie!
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Post by wolf2 on Jan 27, 2011 18:30:33 GMT -5
i hope they mention that edgar thought hauptmann was guilty.
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Post by Michael on Feb 9, 2011 19:49:08 GMT -5
J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Bureau of Investigation, appeared pleased with the progress his agents are making and intimated that more arrests may be forthcoming shortly.
"It is possible that Hauptmann did the job alone, but not probable," he said. [Washington Post - 9/27/34]
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Post by sue75 on Feb 12, 2011 16:38:19 GMT -5
Actor to play FBI Agent, Thomas Sisk --
Posted: Fri., Feb. 11, 2011, 2:04pm PT 'J. Edgar' deputizes Coco By Justin Kroll
Lea Coco has rounded out the cast of the Clint Eastwood-helmed "J. Edgar."
Warner Bros. will distribute, with Eastwood helming and Dustin Lance Black scripting.
Pic stars Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover, the man who founded the F.B.I. Coco plays Agent Sisk, the man Hoover put in charge of finding the Lindbergh baby kidnapper. Sisk was the agent who arrested Bruno Hauptman for the crime.
Naomi Watts and Armie Hammer also star.
Eastwood, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Robert Lorenz are producing through Grazer and Howard's Imagine Entertainment and Eastwood's Malpaso banner.
Production is under way. A release date is not yet set.
Coco has appeared on episodes of TV's "The Closer" and "Prison Break."
He is repped by Gersh and Coronel Group.
Contact Justin Kroll at justin.kroll@variety.com
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Post by sue75 on Feb 23, 2011 11:32:46 GMT -5
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Post by sue75 on Feb 23, 2011 11:35:12 GMT -5
LA Times article:
In "J. Edgar," Grenier will play eccentric retired teacher, John Condon, who became an intermediary in the kidnapping of aviator Charles Lindbergh's baby in 1932. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Hoover.
"It's a wonderful role!" Grenier almost yells. "I can't believe I got it! He was this educator from the Bronx who thought it was his patriotic duty, because of what Lindbergh contributed to society, to repay him by doing vigilante work. So this very strange man who thought of himself as the mayor of his neighborhood suddenly starts running notes back and forth between the kidnappers. It's a great little arc."
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Post by sue75 on Feb 24, 2011 13:38:15 GMT -5
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Post by sue75 on Feb 24, 2011 19:48:13 GMT -5
Well, who was this child that the FBI initially found? Why did they believe this baby was Charles Lindbergh, Jr.? I know I had posted this one time before, but I wonder if James Wilkinson, a highly regarded fingerprint man from Canada, might have known the identity of this child. (The following is from a new thread under "General Discussion.") In the new movie, J. Edgar, will there be an admission that the FBI, at first, recovered the wrong baby in the Lindbergh case? FBI agents Turner and Leon Turrou admit they turned up another child. From Citizen Hoover by Robert Nash: "Year later, FBI man Leon Turrou was to confide that his agents recovered the wrong baby in the Lindbergh case. 'Naturally,' Turrou stated, 'all of us on the Lindbergh squad took special pains to keep these blunderings out of reach of the reporters.'" (p.55) And again, I bring up that Canadian fingerprint expert, James Wilkinson, who was good friends with Hoover, and who was sent (by Hoover?) to go down to New Jersey to identify a dead child. "According to James Wilkinson's son and daughter, he was also a close acquaintance of J. Edgar Hoover; it was not uncommon for the director of the FBI to stop by for dinner at the Wilkinson home. His son Gordon also remembers his father being sent to New Jersey to examine the body of a child found after the Lindberg kidnapping." See page 12: "James Wilkinson, A Man Ahead of His Time." www.police.windsor.on.ca/History/historical%20booklet%20final%20draft.pdf
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Post by sue75 on Feb 28, 2011 11:26:56 GMT -5
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Post by sue75 on Feb 28, 2011 11:29:50 GMT -5
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Post by sue75 on Feb 28, 2011 11:36:51 GMT -5
1975 Time Magazine Volume 143 Issues: 10-17
Briton Hadden - 1975
"The FBI tried to conceal the fact that at first it had recovered the wrong baby's body after the Lindbergh ordeal; the kidnaper, Bruno Hauptmann, was detected mainly through the tracing of ransom money by Treasury agents..."
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Post by Michael on Mar 30, 2011 15:58:51 GMT -5
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Post by kevkon on Mar 30, 2011 16:47:35 GMT -5
Well, if a movie shoot involves anything like running a business in NJ, I can well understand why.
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Post by Michael on Sept 21, 2011 5:41:23 GMT -5
It's due out sometime in early November.
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Post by Michael on Oct 6, 2011 17:17:28 GMT -5
On the question of Hoover's sexual orientation:
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Post by sue75 on Oct 27, 2011 18:33:01 GMT -5
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