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Article: It's black and white and red all over FILM Good Night, and Good Luck George Clooney 93 MINS, PG
- Article from:
- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 19, 2006
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George Clooney's second film as director recounts a story which
could easily have been made into a prestigious, three hour-long
Hollywood biopic, probably starring Russell Crowe or Kevin Costner.
It's set in 1953, when Senator Joseph McCarthy was accusing everyone
with a pulse of being a Communist, and CBS's Ed Murrow decided that
it was high time his current affairs programme, See It Now, did some
accusing of its own. Dedicating an episode of the show to McCarthy's
slanders and inconsistencies, Murrow risked the wrath of the
channel's sponsors, not to mention the wrath of McCarthy, who, in
customary fashion, responded to the programme by branding the
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