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  04/02/2010 at 3:18pm

  GoodmanBrown

  Dred Scott is an important case(s) not an interesting story. Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education makes a better story. Not to mention they don't lose. Then you can debate who's gonna play Thurgood Marshall at 45.

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  04/02/2010 at 3:09pm

  GoodmanBrown

  Candy Bombers. I know the book but haven't read it. It does seem good, What's the best angle for the story though???

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  04/02/2010 at 2:48am

  TAFC_Staff

  EdwardMRyan,
  
  The idea of a post-1908 Butch Cassidy riding around Bolivia may sound like bogus history, but author Richard Patterson documents multiple sightings of, and even interactions with an older Butch through the years. Were these tall tales, an imposter, or perhaps Butch himself?
  
  Here's the Amazon link to his book:

  http://www.amazon.com/Butch-Cassidy-Biography-Bison-Book/dp/0803287569/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270190294&sr=1-3

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  04/01/2010 at 3:40pm

  BrianFalk

  Regarding Dred: Denzel and Forrest are both solid choices. I wonder if Dred's story (and the movie) might need to start with him younger, signposting his servitude and setting up the audience for the legal fight to come. This might open up the casting to Will Smith, Don Cheadle, Anthony Mackie, etc. Did he have a lawyer or lawyers who helped him? They'd also be interesting to follow.

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  04/01/2010 at 1:24pm

  robin

  About the Candy Bombers; Halvorsen is from a small town in northern Utah. This community also was home of the Borgstrom family, who during WW II lost four of their sons to the fighting. At the funeral for the last, the mother tearfully asked the military officer if they would take her youngest son, also. Her husband replied, "If his country needs him he will go."
  
  The story of the Candy Bombers inspired another military officer from the same town, to do a similar act in Iraq. School children collected toys, balls, and more candy, sent it to the pilot, and he and his associates became the 'Iraq Toy Bombers.'
  
  I love what these stories tell about the American Spirit. It is not our military strength that defines us - it is our compassion, especially to our 'vanquished foes.'
  
  The words of Lincoln resound through the years and perhaps inspired the work of these pilots:
  
  "With malice toward none; with charity for all; . . ., let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
  
  Great movie idea!

  from The Best American History Movies NEVER Made