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...Garrison's wife, the character played by Sissy Spacek, simplified in the film...
...didn't misinterpret his wife at all. That's the way she was. Garrison's investigation threatened her family life. They had five kids, and he was not home. We didn't practice politically correct feminism to try to make her into something she was not. What we did -- you could fault me for it -- was put a woman D.A. into his staff. He did not have a woman...
...fine-tooth comb. Everything that we have in there we stand behind. What is speculation is clearly speculation. We did not throw in any facts that we felt were wrong. I did make some composites. I've admitted that. I made it very clear ((in interviews)), for example, that Garrison never really met with the character called "X," played by Donald Sutherland, who explains the dimensions of the CIA conspiracy...
...Costner's coiled heroic presence is one more source of controversy, for the liberal icon of Dances with Wolves and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is playing Jim Garrison, who as New Orleans district attorney in the late '60s prosecuted the only Kennedy assassination case that ever went to trial. And, quickly, out the window. The jury found the defendant, businessman Clay Shaw, not guilty in less time than last week's West Palm Beach jurors took to exonerate William Kennedy Smith. For the past decade, Garrison (who appears in JFK as Chief Justice Earl Warren) has been part...
Under its breath, the movie says as much. It prefixes some scenes with a "For all we know, it could have been . . ." or a "Let's just for a moment speculate, shall we?" Stone embraces contradictions, or maybe he just trucks over them. What Garrison tells his staff, Stone tells his viewers: "Now we're through the looking glass here, people. White is black, and black is white." But the film's true epigraph might be the counsel that "X" gives Garrison: "Don't take my word. Do your own work -- your own thinkin...