{"id":1556,"date":"2007-11-05T04:52:57","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T09:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2007-11-05T11:59:38","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T16:59:38","slug":"reese-witherspoon-victim-of-ied-on-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1556","title":{"rendered":"Reese Witherspoon Victim of IED On Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rendition<\/em>, the star-clogged exercise in anti-Administration paranoia, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/index.asp?layout=b_o_weekend&#038;dept=Film\">getting waterboarded at the box office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the production team <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/review\/VE1117934646?categoryID=31&#038;cs=1\">should be secretly loaded on a plane for Oman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s not easy to make a dull film when your central components include terrorism, torture, secret CIA operations and contempo Middle East intrigue, but Gavin Hood has done it with \u201cRendition.\u201d By underplaying the melodrama in the presumed hope of seeming subtle when Kelley Sane\u2019s script is so baldly melodramatic, the \u201cTsotsi\u201d helmer drains the life out of an obviously explosive subject&#8230;The CIA\u2019s sliver of evidence against [Reese Witherspoon&#8217;s Egytian-born hubby] is records of a few cell phone calls to him from someone who may only coincidentally have the same name as a known terrorist. But that\u2019s enough for the CIA\u2019s terrorism guru (Meryl Streep, brandishing a slight Southern accent and too-obvious negative commentary about her nasty character) to have Anwar \u201cput on a plane\u201d and officially become a missing person.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who do these people think they are, Michael Moore?<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthvmachine.com\/?p=5214\">Kouba\u00a0@ TvM<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rendition, the star-clogged exercise in anti-Administration paranoia, is getting waterboarded at the box office. Perhaps the production team should be secretly loaded on a plane for Oman: It\u2019s not easy to make a dull film when your central components include terrorism, torture, secret CIA operations and contempo Middle East intrigue, but Gavin Hood has done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}