Word: hewitt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impression that Thanksgiving does not hold as much emotional attachment for international students as it does for students from the United States," said Michelle L. Hewitt, assistant to the master of Mather House...
...Hewitt, played by Philip Baker Hall: Head of "60 Minutes," blocks Wigand interview for corporate reasons...
...employers hire thugs to stalk and scare him, and his wife leaves with their two daughters; he loses everything for a chance to set the record straight and doubts whether the price was worth it. Meanwhile, Bergman can't get Wigand's interview on the air at CBS; Don Hewitt and the corporate heads fear a multi-billion lawsuit from Brown and Williamson, and Bergman must plead with Hewitt and anchor Mike Wallace to get the ground-breaking interview on "60 Minutes." The loose, organic structure of the film works its magic in the first third of the movie...
...what if Mann, for dramatic emphasis in the film, had decided to make Wallace and Hewitt look as amoral and unsympathetic as possible, thus completely misrepresenting their characters? Does Mann have more of an obligation to creating his art or of representing the figures and events involved in a fair and factual...
...Mann has certain responsibilities as a filmmaker, but he also has the right to tell a story; it is his decision on how to balance the obligations of fact and fiction, and hopefully he will respect the powers of each. "Wallace and Hewitt have criticized the film because it's Michael Mann's view of my perspective, or Wigand's perspective," Bergman says. Luckily, Mann, even with the dramatic license he takes, is still committed to telling the true story; but what if the next filmmaker who comes along decides to sacrifice fact for fiction's sake...