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That represents one interest group. It has a kind of internal politics but to question would indicate to what degree are people accountable to the public. They are not fully accountable to the public in the way we would recognize year but one thing youve seen over the last few years is they can no longer afford to be unaware of what people care about and what they want so they have to now fall the web followed closely people talk about online. They have to try to keep the sense of be one step ahead of where Public Opinion is. Public opinion matters in china but the thing the communist party wo...

He actually came up doing laurel and hardy silent shorts and then once sound came in he did everything from swing time, one of the best fred astaire and Ginger Rogers movies to wochlt year with Katherine Hepburn and spencer tracy. Each of these movies had reasons for directors going in. For stevens, who like all of the directors was old enough so he could have gotten a civilian exemption from the war, really wanted what he called a seat on the 50 yard line of history. He felt that it was a patriotic duty to go. He had been chafing in hollywood because he felt pigeonholed into making these very...

He had been a director of some of the most successful like comedies and escapist movies in hollywood throughout the 1930s. He came up doing laurel and hardy silent shorts and when sound came in, he did everything from swing time, a fred astaireginger rogers musical and woman of the year, Katharine Hepburn and spencer tracy. Each of these directors had Different Reasons for going in. For stevens, who, like all of the directors, was old enough that he couldve gotten a civilian exemption from the war, he really wanted what he called a seat on the 50 yard line of history. He felt it was a patrioti...

Choices. Getting to the point where you can make peace is never easy because you dont make peace with your friends. You make it with people who are your adversaries. Who have killed those you care about. Your own people or those who you are trying to protect. Its a psychological drama. You have to get into the heads of those on the other side because we have to change their calculation enough to get them to the table. Talk about what we did in iran. Wed to put a lot of economic pressure to get them to the table. That has to be the first step. What we did in pakistan and for getting them at the...

Enter the camps after they were liberated and his films there actually provided evidence for the neuremberg trials. His work on the war was the most wide ranging and in some ways historically significant in terms of the camp footage of any directors during the war. Let me follow up on that point because he was a member of the u. S. Army signal corps under the leadership of general eisenhower who was responsible for the historic invasion on dday 70 years ago this year. Where was George Stevens during that time in june of 1944 . Stevens was right there at dday. You know, just as john ford was at...