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THE BRASSINGTON FILES
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The JFK assassination and ‘Barry & ‘the boys’
Two hours before John Kennedy was assassinated on Friday November 22 1963 at 12:30 p.m. Central Time, the stripper headlining Jack Ruby’s Carousel nightclub in Dallas was in a panic to get out of town. The National Archives and Records Administration today began releasing government documents never been disclosed on the Kennedy assassination, under a law passed in 1992 after…
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Mystery behind fatal plane crash dogs ‘American Made’
The word which best describes the new movie ‘American Made’ isn’t “boffo.” It’s “manslaughter.”
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Keeping it in ‘The Family:’ Director’s Mobbed-Up Dad
Doug Liman, the director of the new Tom Cruise movie ‘AMERICAN MADE,’ has a dirty secret in his family closet. His Dad was a Mafia groupie. Which wouldn’t matter, except Liman loudly claims his new film is based on the true story of Barry Seal, when it isn’t. And it amounts to a further Iran…
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‘AMERICAN MADE’ LIES, SEX, & VIDEOTAPE
It’s hard to credit anything about a movie whose ruthless Medellin Cartel Drug Lords wear powder-blue leisure suits. Still, when a “based on a true story” movie spreads egregious falsehoods about a man who will someday be of vital interest to future historians, attention must be paid.
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Barry Seal & AMERICAN MADE’S Cigar Store Indians
(Want to see why the new movie “based on a true story” AMERICAN MADE is an insult to America? READ “Deep Watergate, a chapter from “Barry & the boys.’) The most interesting thing about the new movie ‘AMERICAN MADE’—assuming you’re immune to gape-jawed curiosity at an obviously-smitten director unspooling an $80 million love letter…
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‘American Made’ turns Seal story into “madcap ’80’s romp”
A new movie coming out in four weeks attempts to pull off a feat no other biopic from a major Hollywood studio ever has… Called “American Made” and starring Tom Cruise as drug smuggler Barry Seal, the upcoming release has airbrushed out the very things that made its main character famous to begin…
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‘Alt-right’ Trump operative running stock fraud ‘hyena pack’
How can Donald Trump “drain the swamp” in Washington when some of its slimiest denizens work for his own campaign?
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Trump campaign chief’s hidden ties to Sarasota grifter
When Donald Trump’s campaign manager Steve Bannon hastily changed his voter registration residence from an empty house in Miami to a beach house on Casey Key in Sarasota, it made news. The man he moved in with was described as one of Bannon’s Breitbart writers. But Andrew M. Badolato the owner of Bannon’s new ‘registered to vote here’ digs…