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...Hewitt, played by Philip Baker Hall: Head of "60 Minutes," blocks Wigand interview for corporate reasons...
...happens, the debate that has blown up around The Insider is also about credibility. Although neither Wallace nor 60 Minutes executive producer Don Hewitt has been allowed to see the film in advance of its release, the two argue that it merely reflects the point of view of Bergman, played by Al Pacino, who now works as a free-lance documentary producer and who was a consultant on the film. Wallace insists that throughout the whole fight, he and Bergman "were two peas in a pod, stood shoulder to shoulder" in their determination to air the interview. But the film...
...Wallace, "that he was frequently on the telephone [to Mann] with a play-by-play while he was producing the piece for us." Bergman insists he didn't start thinking about making the story into a film until after Wallace told him he was about to be fired by Hewitt for having brought Wigand--then the subject of a false smear campaign--to the show in the first place...
...Hewitt is professing comfort at the thought that movies don't last at the multiplex forever. 60 Minutes, he says, "has been around for, like, 30 years. A movie, if it's lucky, is around for maybe a week." Or is it? There's already talk of possible Oscar nominations for Russell Crowe, Pacino or Plummer. That would keep the film alive well into next year. And then there's the video release. All that could mean a long stretch ahead for 60 Minutes. Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick...
...love letter to New York City and, more so, to Jennifer Love Hewitt, this spinoff of the wheezing Party of Five captures both in luminous visuals--the pilot looks as if it cost as much as a full season of That '70s Show. But the writing seems decidedly more cut-rate. Hewitt's Sarah Merrin heads east to find her biological father and take a bite out of the Big Apple, dropping Holly Golightly-isms like, "Give me one good reason why I should not spend the night dancing!" This star vehicle, thus far, is a shiny subway to nowhere...