NBC Rethinks Jessica Lynch Movie

[FlashHarry]

Hmm.

Yahoo story here

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Network execs have announced that their spin on the much disputed rescue tale will focus on the Iraqi lawyer who purportedly helped American troops find and extract the Army supply clerk from her captors in April.


"It's really a story of mistakes that were made and action and adventure," NBC programming honcho Jeff Zucker told reporters Thursday during NBC's portion of the summer Television Critics Association press tour in Hollywood. "Quite frankly, Jessica's part of the story is probably the smallest part of the story."


News of the movie's focus is not all that surprising, considering NBC was unable to cut a deal with Lynch (who was just released from a Washington, D.C., hospital this week and has yet to comment on the rescue) and they were able to cut a deal with the lawyer
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[w4rma]

1. Am I to understand that Private Lynch will get paid zip for this movie?

And the Iraqi lawyer will become quite wealthy?

...considering NBC was unable to cut a deal with Lynch (who was just released from a Washington, D.C., hospital this week and has yet to comment on the rescue) and they were able to cut a deal with the lawyer

[bpilgrim]

2. oh, oh... I know! How bout "The last moments of Saddam's grandson"

a lot closer to the script...

14-year-old may have fought on after anti-tank rockets killed the adults

Saddam Hussein's 14-year-old grandson, Mustafa, may have been the last to die in Tuesday's four-hour siege on a house in Mosul, and kept shooting even after Qusay and Uday Hussein, his father and uncle, had been killed, US military officials said yesterday.
According to a detailed account of the assault on the house given by Lt General Ricardo Sanchez in Baghdad, a volley of 10 anti-tank missiles near the end of the siege "wound up killing three of the adults" in the house. But when US troops made their third and final assault on the building, a sole survivor kept firing until he was shot dead.

US officials believe that the last defender was a teenage boy, identified as Mustafa Hussein, who was known to be travelling with his father.

more...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1004749,00.html

du...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=77509&mesg_id=77509&page=

peace