Two Harvard scholars have launched a wide-ranging project designed to document the lives of African-Americans throughout the centuries of U.S. existence who, for one reason or another, have fallen through the historical cracks. “It is an ambitious effort to patch the spotty historical record about the men and women who, among other things, fled slavery, created art and shepherded civil rights campaigns in the shadow of giants like the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.”
Tag: 04.10.04
Sony Pictures Buys Clarke’s Story
In a move which surprised absolutely no one with any knowledge of the modern infotainment business, Sony Pictures has purchased the film rights to the book on counterterrorism penned by Richard Clarke, who has become the largest thorn in the side of the Bush administration during the hearings on the 9/11 attacks. Sony says it envisions an “All The President’s Men”-type approach to the film version of the former counterterrorism advisor’s account of the rise of Al-Qaeda and the failure of the U.S. government to properly address the danger. Clarke’s literary agent says that nearly every major Hollywood studio called to explore the concept of a film.