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Law & Order: Criminal Intent: Folie a Deux (2009)
Continuity problem with Goren's beard
Goren's beard wanders between short and bushy throughout this episode. (Short in the squad room, bushy elsewhere. The bushy beard looks more fake than the basic scruffy version.) Wonder if the episode was filmed in two separate sessions, months apart.
A distraction, to be sure. And does the NYPD permit detectives (other than undercover types) to run around with Benjamin Harrison-like beards? The choice undermined verisimilitude.
By this time in the series' run, I was hoping to see Jeff Goldblum show up in the opening credits instead of Vincent D'Onofrio. Bobbie's character had run his course.
Eye of the Tiger (1986)
A scene toward the end looks familiar
It ran on one of the lesser movie channels tonight. I was struck by an action scene toward the end.
Gary Busey is driving his pick-up in a killing raid against the drug manufacturers. Its rear end opens up to reveal heavy weaponry, used to wipe out the gang members.
The flick includes threatened family members, various levels of corruption and biker gangs.
Guessing Vince Gilligan saw this show at some point.
Ever since "Who'll Stop the Rain?" I'm always good for a Gary Busey movie. (Speaking of that movie, whatever happened to Michael Moriarty?)
Crude (2009)
Berlinger was simply used -- and financed - by the trial lawyers
From the March 4 ruling against Stephen Donziger and others by U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan. (LAP means Lago Agrio plaintiffs):
The documentary film called Crude was made because Donziger in 2005 recruited film maker Joe Berlinger to portray the LAPs' case against Chevron. The film featured Donziger quite prominently. Donziger provided Berlinger, cameraman Mike Bonfiglio, and other crew members expansive access to himself, his team and some of its activities for nearly the next three years. The ultimate product, Crude, first was released in January 2009.
The Crude team's independence from Donziger and the LAPs' lawyers – to the extent there was any at all – was limited. For one thing, Donziger recruited the film's main source of funding: his former classmate Russell DeLeon. As Donziger wrote: "Russ is funding the case. Russ is funding the movie. And Russ wants to fund more cases and more movies." Through his creation and sole ownership of a production company called Crude Investment, Inc., Deleon contributed approximately 60 percent of the film's total funding.
Nonetheless, just as they had done with Cabrera, Donziger and his team attempted to create the appearance that the film was independent, while they controlled or influenced its content from behind the scenes.