Comments on: 4 Movies about Fact Checking

By: scott

scott — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:49:47 +0000

Speaking of fact-checking, Bill Murray doesn’t have a publicist or an agent or anything like that. Instead, he’s got an 800 number where people trying to get hold of him can leave a voice message. There’s an old Washington Post article about it: tinyurl.com/29mwko

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:23:02 +0000

You missed one of the ALL-TIME CLASSICS! Desk Set (1957), one of the defining romantic comedies in film, starred Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn in their first color film as co-stars, with the added bonus of the always debonair Gig Young in a supporting role. The story of an efficiency expert coming to bring a computer (in ‘57!) to a TV network’s research department, it features several scenes of the fact checkers actually checking facts. MUST SEE viewing for any well-rounded film-buff.

By: Debi

Debi — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:27:00 +0000

To really enjoy Shattered Glass, you should go to Slate.com and search for the articles about Stephen Glass in there. One of the characters portrayed in the film is (or was) now a writer at Slate and the extra info is fascinating. Her husband, I believe, also wrote about him.