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...something to do with a sudden burst of publicity about the case thanks to the release of the Australian-produced film Balibo, which recounts the incident. Based on the book Cover-Up by veteran journalist Jill Jolliffe, who has spent years reporting on East Timor, and featuring actor Anthony LaPaglia, the film presents a brutally frank depiction of the fate of the journalists. Says Cunningham: "Without being cynical, I think it's a nice coincidence that the movie has just come out. There's been an incredible response to the movie. It's shockingly confronting. I have people who have...
...crime-story satellites. His track record in other genres is spotty--this season, the middling WB buddy-lawyer show Just Legal and NBC's Pentagon snooze E-Ring--but in cop procedurals, he has gone five for five. That tingle in your chest when you see Anthony LaPaglia race to find a missing child on Without a Trace? That's Bruckheimer pushing your buttons...
George Gorton (Jeff Goldblum), Dick Dresner (Anthony LaPaglia) and Joe Shumate (Liev Schreiber) have just left the 1996 presidential campaign of Republican California Governor Pete Wilson. Idle and itchy, they get a call seeking help for a presidential candidate in even worse straits: Russian President Boris Yeltsin. A hero for leading his country out of communism in the early '90s, he is now, amid economic ruin and a war in Chechnya, the goat. Polls show him trailing not only his main opponent, communist Gennadi Zyuganov, but also Joseph Stalin, the long-dead Soviet dictator...
...country's best crime labs, since it boasts cutting-edge equipment donated by publicity-seeking manufacturers. Bruckheimer films might be mocked by other producers for being simpleminded but never for being simply executed. "Not all of his movies represent the highest quality," says Without a Trace star Anthony LaPaglia, who was hesitant about acting in a television show, Bruckheimer or not. "But they always look amazing. I knew at least with Jerry that at worst I'd have a show with great postproduction...
...laid-back cop until he died of a cocaine overdose in 1996. Bruckheimer has never made the Jungian leap to taking over Simpson's role, remaining oddly calm for an action-movie producer. "There are very few people in this business who are men of their word," says LaPaglia. "Most people waffle and bulls___ you. He has been nothing but straight up. He hasn't promised me anything he can't deliver, and he returns my phone calls. In this day and age, you can't ask for more...