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...producers of the ABC show insisted it was factual - but with some made-up stuff. The director of the Channel 4 show stressed it was fiction - but with copious archival footage of Bush to give the shooting a creepy verismo. If these declarations were made to clarify the makers' intentions, the strategy backfired. Advance reports of both efforts spurred demands for their suppression, virtually all of them from people who hadn't seen them...
Walla rejects the idea of a buy button as "science fiction," and most researchers say the technology only allows them to observe how brains work, not control them. Adds Brammer: "I have got a lot of respect for the power of the human spirit to resist being manipulated." Also, Smidts maintains, "A lot of advertising doesn't work. It's hard to persuade and influence people...
...Tuesday Sadr's representatives repeated their constant refrain that the violence was not carried out by legitimate members of the Mahdi Army and was not ordered from on high. The question now is whether the Maliki government can survive by continuing to echo that fiction, or if an escalating confrontation is inevitable...
...letters. She said that only 24 sheets of this type of paper exist.She added that while the handwriting of Jack the Ripper is disguised and is different from Sickert’s handwriting, the composition of certain characters in the two letters seems remarkably similar. FACT OR FICTION?Cornwell first became interested in this mystery in 2001 when she had a conversation with a Scotland Yard investigator in London about Jack the Ripper. As she researched Sickert’s work, she became more and more disturbed by his live subjects’ “dead” appearance...
...Cool Operator Mickey Spillane, the tough-guy author who became an icon of American pulp fiction, died last month at age 88 [July 31]. Our Oct. 26, 1959, cover story addressed the spate of TV detective dramas whose heroes owed a lot to Spillane's sleuth, Mike Hammer...