Rod Lurie
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Rod Lurie is a filmmaker and television producer, specializing in political and military subjects. His first film, Deterrence (2000), which was set in 2008, prognosticated our current conflict with Iraq. His Oscar-nominated The Contender and his television series Commander in Chief, dealt with the possibilities associated with a woman being President or Vice-President. Lurie also created the television series Line of Fire and directed The Last Castle with Robert Redford and Resurrecting the Champ with Samuel L. Jackson. His latest film, the journalism political drama Nothing But the Truth, will be released later this year. Lurie was born in Israel and educated at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

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In Praise of a Real Man

Posted May 1, 2009 | 22:30:41 (EST)

If you are like me, the first thing you thought about when you read that the Chicago Sun-Times was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection was this: what would that mean for Roger Ebert? To be more specific, what would that mean for our ability to read Ebert from now...

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The Holocaust Revisionism of Hollywood

Posted February 12, 2009 | 21:52:22 (EST)

It never crossed my mind that I would ever speak or write negatively about the work of a fellow filmmaker. But when it comes to the topic of the Shoah, I feel like I have to speak my mind -- as both a Jew and a Sabra.

The other day...

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As Papers Lose Their Voices, so go Their Lives

Posted December 9, 2008 | 14:25:37 (EST)

Film critics have been getting whacked lately like they're in the third act montage of a "Godfather" film...BAM-BAM-BAM. They're going down with an unforgiving ferocity that spells danger not just to the craft of film criticism but to print journalism as a whole. Why? Because the local film critic has...

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"Nothing But the Truth" About the Federal Shield Law

Posted December 1, 2008 | 18:46:43 (EST)

My film Nothing but the Truth, a thriller about how far a journalist will go to protect a source, is going to open for one week in New York and Los Angeles on December 19th for what the inside-baseball people call a "qualifying run." It premiered back in September at...

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The Military Is More Liberal Than You Think

Posted July 30, 2008 | 17:30:54 (EST)

Here is a direct quotation from a column written by Maureen Dowd in the New York Times on July 23: "Asked by a Democratic lawmaker a while back why there weren't more democrats in the military, General Petraeus smiled slyly and said 'there are more than you think.'"

Now...

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Sacrificing the First Amendment

Posted February 25, 2008 | 17:15:19 (EST)

Boy, I'll tell you, there is something really insidious going on here.

A woman named Toni Locy is being held in contempt of court because she won't reveal her sources from a story she wrote in USA Today over six years ago.

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Why America Needs a Black President

Posted February 22, 2008 | 09:46:00 (EST)

Several years ago, I wrote and directed a film called The Contender in which Jeff Bridges played a president who nominates a female senator, played by Joan Allen, to be his vice president. In 2005, I created the TV series Commander-in-Chief in which Geena Davis played Mackenzie Allen, America's first...

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