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...knows whom. If our capitalist governments have been socialist enough to use public money to pay for private debts, perhaps they might also be socialist enough to address the issue of fairness in the distribution of wealth. It's time we stopped the robber barons getting too rich. Tony Attanasio, MANDELLO DEL LARIO, ITALY
...there comes a moment when his Euro-noir film turns into another sort of exercise for the audience: an exercise in boredom. We begin to see that Soderbergh is counting on style to distract us from the familiarity, not to say banality, of the narrative that Paul Attanasio has winnowed out of novelist Joseph Kanon's rather good thriller. What we have here are two standard noir characters. There's the hard-shelled antihero, Jake Geismer (George Clooney), returning to Berlin, where he was a foreign correspondent before the war. His ostensible business is to cover the Potsdam conference...
...fairness, it should be noted that director Phil Alden Robinson's movie (written by Paul Attanasio and Daniel Pyne) was shot before 9/11. You also have to observe that with some 27,000 nuclear devices floating around the world the possibility of one of them falling into the hands of a rogue group - in this instance Neo-Nazis - is not entirely improbable. Nor is the possibility that they might detonate the thing in the U.S. (in Baltimore, at a Super Bowl game), hoping that we'll blame the Russians and get World War III up and running, dreaming, too, that...
...Usually tough guys have no humanity and warmth, and the guys with humanity and warmth are soft," says Attanasio. "Andre is unique in that he encompasses both." Braugher was so taken with Attanasio's script that he signed up even though it meant a weekly red-eye commute from Los Angeles to his wife and two sons in the New York City area, 14-hour days on the set and nights alone in a rented house. "To me, location is not vacation," he says...
...experience of Dr. Jerome Groopman, a professor of immunology at the Harvard Medical School and author of The Measure of Our Days: A Spiritual Exploration of Illness, a chapter from which inspired the pilot. The African-American Gideon may seem far removed from the white, Jewish Groopman, but Attanasio says the scripts needed no changes once cast. Notes Braugher: "Gideon is a three-dimensional man, not because he is African American but because...