Martin Scorsese’s new film, The Irishman, conjures up a lost world. It depicts an era when the Mafia was so powerful that it set off alarms in the Kennedy White House, and Scorsese even hints that organized crime was behind JFK’s assassination.
But by the end of the three-hour-plus movie, the nostalgia fades and so does the pinkie-ring finery. Every made man Scorsese introduces to the viewer is snuffed out until all that’s left is Frank Sheeran (played by Robert DeNiro), a disheveled, wheelchair-bound ex-hit man who’s haunted by his memories.
But by the end of the three-hour-plus movie, the nostalgia fades and so does the pinkie-ring finery. Every made man Scorsese introduces to the viewer is snuffed out until all that’s left is Frank Sheeran (played by Robert DeNiro), a disheveled, wheelchair-bound ex-hit man who’s haunted by his memories.
- 12/6/2019
- by Seth Hettena
- Rollingstone.com
Last weekend, I published a book chapter criticizing the Russiagate narrative, claiming it was a years-long press error on the scale of the Wmd affair heading into the Iraq war.
Obviously (and I said this in detail), the Wmd fiasco had a far greater real-world impact, with hundreds of thousands of lives lost and trillions in treasure wasted. Still, I thought Russiagate would do more to damage the reputation of the national news media in the end.
A day after publishing that excerpt, a Attorney General William Barr sent his...
Obviously (and I said this in detail), the Wmd fiasco had a far greater real-world impact, with hundreds of thousands of lives lost and trillions in treasure wasted. Still, I thought Russiagate would do more to damage the reputation of the national news media in the end.
A day after publishing that excerpt, a Attorney General William Barr sent his...
- 3/29/2019
- by Matt Taibbi
- Rollingstone.com
When New York Times reporters David Barstow, Susanne Craig, and Russ Buettner published their exhaustive, gazillion-word expose on the Trump family tax practices last week, there was only one word for it.
“Tax bombshell,” blared Yahoo!
By my count, this was roughly the 4,790th “bombshell” of the Trump presidency, but one of the few to deserve the title. The Times story is an extraordinary piece of investigative reporting and a monument to the kind of work we all should be doing.
The parts I found most interesting were less about...
“Tax bombshell,” blared Yahoo!
By my count, this was roughly the 4,790th “bombshell” of the Trump presidency, but one of the few to deserve the title. The Times story is an extraordinary piece of investigative reporting and a monument to the kind of work we all should be doing.
The parts I found most interesting were less about...
- 10/10/2018
- by Matt Taibbi
- Rollingstone.com
Get Me Roger Stone Review Get Me Roger Stone (2017) Film Review, a movie directed by Dylan Bank, Daniel Dimaurio, and Morgan Pehme, and starring Roger Stone, Donald Trump, Paul Manafort, Jeffrey Toobin, Tucker Carlson, Jane Mayer, Wayne Barrett, Harry Siegel, Alex Jones, Matt Labash, Nydia Stone, Charlie Black, Michael Caputo, and Hillary Clinton. One of [...]
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Continue reading: Film Review: Get Me Roger Stone (2017): Shedding Light On The Prince Of Darkness...
- 5/28/2017
- by Reggie Peralta
- Film-Book
In Neil Barsky's beautifully edited engrossing portrait, Koch, we get to see the many facets of former Mayor Koch's political career and glimpse a private man with strong convictions.
"Gosh, when I grow up, I hope to be Ed Koch," we hear New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg gush in 2010, at a Gracie Mansion renaming ceremony for Koch, the bridge. Former Parks Commissioner Henry Stern recalls the summer of 64 in Mississippi and Koch's Chief of Staff Diane Mulcahy Coffey remembers a convincing note from her mother, scribbled on an early New York Times article, "This man is a comer!" Journalists give details on Koch's first mayoral campaign: Michael Powell explains how Koch "checkmated Mario Cuomo", Wayne Barrett adds, "It was a stroke of genius. It was also extraordinarily deceptive", and Julie Purnick emphasises the importance of a former Miss America, "she was a good friend...
"Gosh, when I grow up, I hope to be Ed Koch," we hear New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg gush in 2010, at a Gracie Mansion renaming ceremony for Koch, the bridge. Former Parks Commissioner Henry Stern recalls the summer of 64 in Mississippi and Koch's Chief of Staff Diane Mulcahy Coffey remembers a convincing note from her mother, scribbled on an early New York Times article, "This man is a comer!" Journalists give details on Koch's first mayoral campaign: Michael Powell explains how Koch "checkmated Mario Cuomo", Wayne Barrett adds, "It was a stroke of genius. It was also extraordinarily deceptive", and Julie Purnick emphasises the importance of a former Miss America, "she was a good friend...
- 2/14/2013
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Al Sharpton's surprise resurgence as a cable news host seems to have come a bit out of nowhere-- certainly to his predecessor and to many viewers. Given his previous forays into television, the Daily Beast's Wayne Barrett has penned a doozy of an investigative piece that proposes talent alone couldn't have gotten Sharpton the job: it was affirmative action and his support of the NBC/Comcast merger, Barrett concludes, that landed him the position.
- 7/28/2011
- by Frances Martel
- Mediaite - TV
With lawsuits pending, Trump's business empire could not withstand the close scrutiny of a presidential campaign, and even his kids might have been muddied. Wayne Barrett, who first exposed Trump's ties to organized crime in his 1992 book, looked into the Donald's most recent business dealings and discovered:
• One associate who was an "unindicted co-conspirator" in a massive 2000 stock swindle-and escaped prison only by helping to convict 19 others, including six members of New York crime families • Two associates who served prison time on cocaine charges • Another partner prosecuted for trafficking underage girls after a dramatic helicopter raid on a yacht off the Turkish coast • A pending lawsuit against Trump Soho that alleges daughter Ivanka, among others, made fraudulent misrepresentations
Related story on The Daily Beast: Trump to McCain: 'You're Hired!'
"I had no idea I would get hammered in the way I've been hammered," Donald Trump declared in New Hampshire...
• One associate who was an "unindicted co-conspirator" in a massive 2000 stock swindle-and escaped prison only by helping to convict 19 others, including six members of New York crime families • Two associates who served prison time on cocaine charges • Another partner prosecuted for trafficking underage girls after a dramatic helicopter raid on a yacht off the Turkish coast • A pending lawsuit against Trump Soho that alleges daughter Ivanka, among others, made fraudulent misrepresentations
Related story on The Daily Beast: Trump to McCain: 'You're Hired!'
"I had no idea I would get hammered in the way I've been hammered," Donald Trump declared in New Hampshire...
- 5/26/2011
- by Wayne Barrett
- The Daily Beast
The president's extraordinary embrace of Al Sharpton last week has as much to do with his rejection of Jesse Jackson, Cornel West and Tavis Smiley as it does with the once-embattled reverend.
President Obama's extraordinary embrace of Reverend Al Sharpton last week has as much to do with the president's antipathy for three other black leaders-Jesse Jackson, Dr. Cornel West and Tavis Smiley-as it does with any genuine White House enthusiasm for the controversial New York preacher. Unlike Sharpton, who actually sat in the front row at Obama's December announcement of the deal to extend the Bush tax cuts, Jackson, West and Smiley have criticized the president's centrist tilt, alienating themselves from the administration.
Obama stayed so far away from Sharpton during the 2008 campaign that Sharpton, with Obama's blessing, never even endorsed him. Yet not only did Obama just become the first president ever to appear at...
President Obama's extraordinary embrace of Reverend Al Sharpton last week has as much to do with the president's antipathy for three other black leaders-Jesse Jackson, Dr. Cornel West and Tavis Smiley-as it does with any genuine White House enthusiasm for the controversial New York preacher. Unlike Sharpton, who actually sat in the front row at Obama's December announcement of the deal to extend the Bush tax cuts, Jackson, West and Smiley have criticized the president's centrist tilt, alienating themselves from the administration.
Obama stayed so far away from Sharpton during the 2008 campaign that Sharpton, with Obama's blessing, never even endorsed him. Yet not only did Obama just become the first president ever to appear at...
- 4/13/2011
- by Wayne Barrett
- The Daily Beast
The star's much-lauded effort to help girls in the African nation of Malawi blew up. In this week's Newsweek, Wayne Barrett looks at how much Kabbalah had to do with it.
One year ago, Madonna squatted in the rust-colored dirt of a sprawling empty lot outside Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world. With curious villagers and invited photographers crowding around, she laid the ceremonial first brick for a planned $15 million girls' academy, a noble mission in a nation where only 27 percent of girls attend secondary school. In a blog post on the website of her Raising Malawi foundation, she wrote that the brick, inscribed with the words "Dare to Dream," was "not just the bedrock to a school-it is a foundation for our shared future."
Related story on The Daily Beast: Madonna's Academic Guru
Last week it was announced that the future would not be built.
One year ago, Madonna squatted in the rust-colored dirt of a sprawling empty lot outside Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world. With curious villagers and invited photographers crowding around, she laid the ceremonial first brick for a planned $15 million girls' academy, a noble mission in a nation where only 27 percent of girls attend secondary school. In a blog post on the website of her Raising Malawi foundation, she wrote that the brick, inscribed with the words "Dare to Dream," was "not just the bedrock to a school-it is a foundation for our shared future."
Related story on The Daily Beast: Madonna's Academic Guru
Last week it was announced that the future would not be built.
- 4/4/2011
- by Wayne Barrett
- The Daily Beast
Gap model and former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan announced on Sunday that his blog, The Daily Dish, will be relocating from The Atlantic to The Daily Beast/Newsweek/Tina Brown’s Slide-Show Concern come April. “The chance to be part of a whole new experiment in online and print journalism, in the Daily Beast and Newsweek adventure, is just too fascinating and exciting a challenge to pass up,” he wrote. Sullivan’s switch is the latest in a series of high-profile hires for the burgeoning behemoths The Daily Beast/Newsweek and its competition, the AOL/The Huffington Post. In the past few moths, the Huffington Post has picked up New York Times economics correspondent Peter Goodman, New York Times Sunday Business editor Tim O’Brien, Newsweek’s Howard Fineman, Andy Wiedlin, a former vice president of sales at Yahoo, and Brian Kaminsky, a vice president of global revenue operations at Reuters,...
- 2/28/2011
- Vanity Fair
Big inside New York media-ball story of the day: Wayne Barrett, a 32-year veteran of the Village Voice and well-read political columnist, is out at the legendary alternative newsweekly. Tom Robbins, Barrett’s friend and another longtime Voice columnist, will leave at the end of January. Barrett announced his departure -- and Robbins’ pending one -- in a column published on the Voice website on Tuesday. “I have written, by my own inexact calculation, more column inches than anyone in the history of the Voice,” Barrett wrote. “These will be my last. I am...
- 1/4/2011
- by Dylan Stableford
- The Wrap
Penelope Ann Miller has been tapped to play Rudolph Giuliani's ex-wife, Donna Hanover, in Rudy! USA Network's upcoming biopic of the former New York mayor. She will star opposite James Woods, who will portray Giuliani in the project, which Robert Dornhelm (FX's RFK) has come aboard to direct. Based on Wayne Barrett's book of the same name, Rudy! looks at Giuliani's public and personal life. The script is by Stanley Weiser, who penned the first draft, and Lionel Chetwynd, who contributed significantly in the final stages.
- 10/15/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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