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September 11 and the Hollywood disaster film. (Film).(Critical Essay)
FOR MOVIEGOERS the television coverage of the events of 11th September in New York and the ensuing horrors were all too terrifyingly familiar. Just about every detail had been imagined and used in a string of thrillers and disaster films. Even the rubble of the World Trade Center looked as though it had been created by Hollywood designers. It almost seemed that film-makers had dreamed the appalling reality to life.
No one had predicted exactly the full outlandish horror, but much-filmed novelist Tom Clancy did come very close. The climax of his Jack Ryan novel Debt of Honor has a fully loaded passenger jet crashing into the Capitol dome just as the president is ...
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- Press release article from: M2 Presswire October 27, 2008 700+ words
...Willis & Steve Mcqueen items sell at...through Bonhams in Los Angeles on Saturday 25th...October 25th in Los Angeles during California...Collection, for Steve McQueen memorabilia from...Sisters of Greater Los Angeles and the Inland...and interest for ...
- A crash helmet used by actor Steve McQueen on display at the...
- Picture from: Getty Images MARK RALSTON November 13, 2009 700+ words
...A crash helmet used by actor Steve McQueen on display at the... Full...A crash helmet used by actor Steve McQueen on display at the upcoming Bonhams...California" car and bike auction in Los Angeles on November 13, 2009. The auction...
- Worthington Honors Memory of Steve McQueen, Donates Movie Money to Research.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 25, 2006 700+ words
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Twenty...mesothelioma took the life of Hollywood legend Steve McQueen. To mark the anniversary of his death...is well known. After his diagnosis in Los Angeles in 1979, McQueen eschewed conventional...
- Crooks and crime in capital of gambling (Pix - Las Vegas, Harrison Ford, Steve...
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England) Williamson, Richard January 30, 2000 700+ words
...the West Coast where he spent 11 years as crime reporter on the Los Angeles Times. Loner detective Harry Bosch is a distillation of real policemen he met plus a hint of Steve McQueen and a touch of Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry. Void Moon grew...
- Barbara McQueen at Nashville's Striped Door Gallery with 'Steve McQueen: The...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 27, 2007 700+ words
...Barbara McQueen's "Steve McQueen: The Last Mile" exhibit...fashion model, met Steve McQueen in 1977. Together...Peggy Cooper says, "Steve McQueen's memorabilia has...a recent auction in Los Angeles and one of his motorcycles...
- USA. Hollywood. Martin RANSOHOFF, who produced Steve McQueen's film "The...
- Picture from: Magnum Photos Eve Arnold January 1, 1964 700+ words
...Martin RANSOHOFF, who produced Steve McQueen's film "The Cincinnati Kid...Media Man (all ages) Spectacles Los Angeles Interior North America America...Martin RANSOHOFF, who produced Steve McQueen's film "The Cincinnati Kid...
- CANDID CAMERA.(exhibition of William Claxton's Steve McQueen photos)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: WWD Ginsberg, Merle July 15, 2002 700+ words
LOS ANGELES -- "I'd rather be on the other...with the show of his iconic images of Steve McQueen, which opened at the Fahey/Klein...Stranger." "I put out my hand to Steve McQueen, but he didn't shake it," says...
- THE TAO OF STEVE; McQueen exhibit is as cool as its honoree.(Revs)
- Magazine article from: AutoWeek January 9, 2006 700+ words
...Automotive Museum in Los Angeles has gathered perhaps...Bullitt Mustang, owned by Los Angeles newsman Dave Kunz...museum for the show. Steve McQueen's '56 Jag XKSS is...worth a side trip to Los Angeles. It runs through April...
