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...noticed that Channon has been writing for the Guardian in the run-up to the film's release. How did that come about? Well, I suggested it, but it was sort of a gamble because Jim's his own man. He could have written, "I hate Jon Ronson's book." He loved the movie, and he loves Jeff Bridges, who plays him in the movie. Obviously, George Clooney didn't hurt either. George Clooney is like an antiseptic bandage, he kind of heals all wounds. (See the top 10 fiction books...
...have you seen the film yet? I've seen it four times. I really love it. The second half of my book is quite dark - there's a lot of jokes in the first half and not many in the second half - and what Clooney and director Grant Heslov decided to do was make it a much more sweet-natured, slightly batty, feel-good film. It's sort of like Little Miss Sunshine goes...
That's interesting to me, because in your book you indict the mainstream media for spinning gruesome stories - like using music to psychologically manipulate prisoners - and turning them into a fluff pieces on Barney's "I Love You" song being played at prisons in Iraq. I'm definitely, definitely not accusing the movie of the thing I accused the media of doing in the book. And in fact, that stuff about Barney being turned into a funny story is the kind of sharp, dark end of the movie. I'm not a conspiracy theorist...
...This book began as an assignment for a TV show, right? It was first going to be a series about the Bush dynasty, and then I had this amazingly good trip to Hawaii where I met [onetime psychic spy] Glenn Wheaton, who told me about Project Jedi and training U.S. soldiers to reach Level 2 - "Intuition" - then Level 3 - "Invisibility," which I thought was such a great leap. Level 1 is, like, eat only nuts and grains for a month, and Level 3 is invisibility? It was the greatest interview of my life...
...think the military's strategy has changed in the five years since this book came out? I have no doubt that research in this field is still going on. Someone sent me this quote from General Stanley McChrystal about how we have to show the enemy our good side, and it seems very similar to passages in Channon's manual about sparkly eyes and baby lambs. I think it's rather nice the military would try out all this crazy stuff, because if the U.S. Army doesn't try this stuff, nobody's going to - and maybe something wonderful could...