{"id":8449,"date":"2010-11-19T06:34:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T12:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=8449"},"modified":"2010-11-19T06:34:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T12:34:08","slug":"joe-williams-love-translates-to-box-office-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/19\/joe-williams-love-translates-to-box-office-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Williams Love Translates To Box Office Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wherein &#8220;gold&#8221; in this case might mean <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/entertainment\/movies\/reviews\/article_7973bdb9-bf12-5b98-8ea6-f6ce498079c1.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;$12&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For a nation at war with its own values, &#8220;Fair Game&#8221; is a compelling, pertinent and scrupulously true political thriller in the honorable tradition of &#8220;All the President&#8217;s Men.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Valerie Plame, smartly portrayed by Naomi Watts, was a CIA operative who specialized in defusing the nuclear ambitions of terrorists and rogue regimes. When President George W. Bush&#8217;s administration said Iraq was stockpiling uranium from Africa, it didn&#8217;t square with Plame&#8217;s information. She suggested to her bosses that her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson (Sean Penn), was qualified to investigate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When the American public goes to films, it doesn&#8217;t go to see artists twisting facts to make a compelling narrative designed to hector America and Americans; that&#8217;s why a couple of them still take their daily papers.<\/p>\n<p>I predict <em>Fair Game<\/em> comes in 9th this week if not lower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wherein &#8220;gold&#8221; in this case might mean &#8220;$12&#8221;: For a nation at war with its own values, &#8220;Fair Game&#8221; is a compelling, pertinent and scrupulously true political thriller in the honorable tradition of &#8220;All the President&#8217;s Men.&#8221; Valerie Plame, smartly portrayed by Naomi Watts, was a CIA operative who specialized in defusing the nuclear ambitions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8452,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8449\/revisions\/8452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}