Robert Harris

Have Financial Markets Slipped Beyond Our Control?

Robert Harris | Posted 02.02.2012

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By Robert Harris, author of The Fear Index If you want to know why the world economy is in such a mess take a trip to Waxahachie, Texas, and look a...

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The Ghost(s): Of Tony Blair, Roman Polanski, and A War on Terror

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chinatown, The Parallax View, Tony Blair, The Ghost Writer, Roman Polanski, Cia, Bauhaus, Ronald Reagan, Kim Cattrall, Tom Wilkinson, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jim Belushi, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Bill Clinton, Alfred Hitchcock, Hitler, Michael Sheen, Helen Mirren, Warhol, Alexandre Desplat, Morgane Polanski, Brutalist Architecture, James Bond, Cool Britannia, Ewan McGregor, Barack Obama, The Queen, Tim Hutton, Bernard Herrmann, Olivia Williams, Eli Wallach, Sex and the City, 9/11, Iraq War, Condi Rice, Alan J. Pakula, Britain, Pakistan, Rendition, Halliburton, Robert Harris, Warren Beatty, Robert Pugh, Jack Nicholson, Entertainment News
William Bradley

Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer is one of the best films I've seen in recent years. Yet it seems unlikely, at least in America, to break out beyond the art house hit status.

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Ghostwriters And Their Secret Lives

Telegraph UK | Andrew Crofts | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mine is a secretive profession, more accustomed to the shadows than the limelight. But two new films have made ghostwriters the centre of attention: R...

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Movie Review: The Ghost Writer

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ewan McGregor, Shutter Island, Leap Year, Tony Blair, Martin Scorsese, Jack Bauer, Olivia Williams, Robert Harris, Tom Wilkinson, Pierce Brosnan, The Ghost Writer Movie Review, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Valentine's Day, Roman Polanski, Dear John, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

It's always feast or famine: months of movies like Dear John, Valentine's Day, Leap Year -- and then, in one week, new films by both Martin Scorsese and Roman Polanski.

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Tony Blair's Ghost (Writer)

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ewan McGregor, George W. Bush, Roman Polanski, Kim Cattrall, Dick Cheney, The Ghost, Tony Blair, Iraq, Olivia Williams, Pierce Brosnan, Cherie Blair, Chilcot Inquiry, War on Terror, The Ghost Writer, Robert Harris, Switzerland, European Union, Britain, Star Wars, Sex and the City, James Bond, 9/11, Berlin Film Festival, Dollhouse, Mike Huckabee, Fox News, Entertainment News
William Bradley

Tony Blair complained that his widely panned appearance before the Chilcot Inquiry into the origins of the Iraq War stirred up negativity because people are hungry for a conspiracy. If that is so, The Ghost Writer is the movie.

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Chinatown's 35th Anniversary Edition and the Polanski Scandal

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ewan McGregor, Tony Blair, The Ghost, Robert Harris, Vertigo, Faye Dunaway, Los Angeles, John Huston, Alfred Hitchcock, Kim Cattrall, Warren Beatty, Godfather, Jerry Goldsmith, Chinatown, Jane Fonda. Mad Men, Pierce Brosnan, Jack Nicholson, Roman Polanski, Robert Evans, James Bond, Anthea Sylbert, Richard Sylbert, Governor Pat Brown, Entertainment News
William Bradley

On the surface, it's a period detective picture. Beneath, it's much more. The film creates its own mesmerizing world through evocative music, costuming, and production design.

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"A Writer Close to the Power Elite": Interview With Robert Harris

Christina Patterson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ancient Rome, Politics, Democracy, Peter Mandelson, New Labour, Tony Blair, Cicero, Roman Polanski, Fatherland, The Ghost, Robert Harris, Books News
Christina Patterson

It was while writing Pompeii six years go, and then reading Rubicon, that Harris first had the idea of using ancient Rome as a springboard for an exploration of the political process.

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Tony Blair's Cautionary Tale For Obama

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, George W. Bush, Iraq, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Torture, Al Qaeda, Israel, Palestine, Cia, Pakistan, European Union, Cool Britannia, Britain, Robert Harris, Roman Polanski, World News
William Bradley

Under Blair, Britain "modernized" as "Cool Britannia," and indicators on the economy, the environment, and crime improved. Then came Iraq, the war too far.

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The Defenses to the Polanski Arrest Are Irrelevant

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Judge H. Lee Sarokin

The argument that Polanski should not be extradited on grounds of delay would mean that the fugitive who is most successful in eluding capture gains an advantage over one who is less successful.

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Why Robert Harris' NY Times Pro-Polanski Op-Ed Is an Offensive, Self-Serving Disgrace

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andy Ostroy

It is outrageously offensive to see the outpouring of support for Polanski from the world's elite artist-class. Are there two sets of laws according to these people?

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