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...start of the film, we're told, "More of this is true than you would believe." The story may be all-true, yet as scripted by Peter Straughan and directed by Grant Heslov (co-screenwriter on the Clooney-directed Good Night, and Good Luck), it's hard to believe. The movie strains to find a coherent comic tone; it smashes into the wall of plausibility it's trying to run through. (See pictures of George Clooney at play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clooneypalooza: A Star Is Airborne | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...fantasy? At the beginning of the film, we are told, "More of this is true than you would believe." And as a military device, remote viewing is surely no wackier than detecting weapons of mass destruction in a country that didn't have any. But as written by Peter Straughan (who also connived in the movie botch of the nonfiction book How to Lose Friends & Alienate People) and directed by Grant Heslov (screenwriter on the Clooney-directed Good Night, and Good Luck), Goats strains as hard to find a coherent comic craziness as Cassady does to make clouds part with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clooney Soars in Two Films at Toronto Film Festival | 9/13/2009 | See Source »

FARMINGTON. Mo.--A fire killed 25 residents of the Straughan Wayside Inn early yesterday morning, when the roof of the boarding house collapsed on their beds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 25 Dead, 3 Injured in Boarding House Blaze | 4/3/1979 | See Source »

...DAVID STRAUGHAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 11, 1974 | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

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