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When you are handing in your nail clippers, having your picture taken (for no apparent reason) and answering inane questions from airport security staff. just remember this: arguably the first terrorist attack on American soil in the last 100 years was committed by an American citizen. His name was Sam Joseph Byck and on 22 February 1974. he drove to Baltimore-Washington International Airport and attempted to hijack a plane. He intended to crash into the White House in the hope of killing President Richard M Nixon. What followed was tragic but Byck (here played by Sean Penn) was a tragic character. Divorced and lonely, he had spent the previous three years stalking his ex-wife Marie (Naomi Watts). avoiding his Hassidic businessman brother Julius (Michael Wincott) and sending insane tape recordings
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Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 April at Filmhouse. On the Saturday they will be available to answer any CRIME (AM is (It ME in" questions you may have about the BE COOL animate! agenda and submission (12A) 118ml” 0. process. Tickets 83/52 concessions. Visit www.animateonline.org.
I Rough Cuts has it on good authority that someone had a little accident in the Cameo’s Cinema One during a screening of Michael Winterbottom’s 9 Songs the other week. Apparently there was a milky substance left all over the back of one of the seats. Now, come on people, let’s have a little more decorum when you’re watching sexy movies in future.
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