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• According to a March, 2004 US Federal District Court ruling in the case of Flowers v. Carville, “there is no evidence the Clinton campaign employed Pellicano in any fashion.”

  Comment by friend of the court — April 17, 2009 @ 11:40 pm  Reply to this post

• This is crazy, John needs to understand that Hillary and Bill did need silence Bill’s skirt chasing way within the Hollywood community back in 92… After Monicagate that made the secret tapes and PI investigation meaningless for Karl Rove and his crew. Now, if was Hillary doing the skirt chasing that would mean something for Carl and his crew, which by the way Hillary was not. Hillary is a national treasure. She not only stood by her man but she raised a wonderful daughter. I knew the director of Die Hard was in trouble when he withdrew his guilty plea. The Justice Dept and FBI will cut you some slack if you don’t lie to them – twice. You never lie to a Federal Judge – ever.

  Comment by Beentheredonethat — April 17, 2009 @ 11:49 pm  Reply to this post

• Dear friend of the court: On Judicial Watch, you can read Carville’s deposition in which he talks about the Clinton’s use of private investigators. Also there are numerous reports about the Clintons hiring Pellicano to dig up the school teacher to discredit Monica Lewinsky. But John McTiernan’s claim that this investigation was a conspiracy by Karl Rove would mean that everyone (the FBI, U.S. Attorney’s office, the drug runner Alexander Proctor who was hired to blow up Anita Busch’s car, etc.) was in on it. In order to believe that, you must put aside all logic. What did Proctor get out of it? He’s in jail for 10 years.

  Comment by anonymous — April 18, 2009 @ 9:33 am  Reply to this post

• He made some good movies in the past, like Die Hard and Predator. But also some clunkers.

  I wonder if he’ll ever direct a movie again.

  Comment by Satan's PA — April 18, 2009 @ 9:36 am  Reply to this post

• to beentheredonethat,

  you wrote that hillary stood by her man. of course she did, because political power is more important to her, than personal dignity. she showed young women everywhere that your husband can humiliate you time and again…but as a woman, your role is to just take it. yes hillary is a national treasure…IN HELL.

  Comment by btlteamster — April 18, 2009 @ 9:45 am  Reply to this post

• Given the number of celebrities who have been arrested (some going to jail, some not) for what can arguably be considered far worse offenses and still went on to continue their careers, why wouldn’t he direct again?

  Comment by Alex N — April 18, 2009 @ 10:07 am  Reply to this post

• so hold on a second you use your first wife to come to hollywood to translate for your incoherence and then screw the actress on your first picture and get her pregnant dump the wife and the actress for a studio exec who could help you more but dump her for the younger ‘costume designer’ but not before you have an affair with the studio exec’s son’s girlfriend while he’s awaiting sentencing for accidentally shooting his best friend with your loaded gun

  boy karl rove must have been a busy boy orchestrating all this in the years leading up to the white house

  what exactly did you need to hear roven (ironically one letter away from your nemesis) say anyway; ‘the film was dreadful’ ,’you need to be recut’, or ‘the lead was a lemon’ . you knew all this anyway

  you reap what you sow

  Comment by the grim reaper — April 18, 2009 @ 11:46 am  Reply to this post

• how on God’s green earth is McTiernan frying here and Ovitz, who is named in every transcript of every bit of testimony from the FBI throughout this whole debacle, walk away unscathed…THAT’S the crime here…when does his Anita Busch and other civil trials on the matter begin?

  Comment by you'reoutoforder! — April 18, 2009 @ 2:39 pm  Reply to this post

• I’ve heard of being in Director’s Jail after a film bombs but this is ridiculous…..

  Comment by ReelBusy — April 18, 2009 @ 6:00 pm  Reply to this post

• didn’t pellicano’s ex fiance tell the feds that there was information on pellicano’s computers that would “bring down” BC, AS and other politicos?
  they are still baffled by the codes on that file probably.

  Comment by darkstar223 — April 19, 2009 @ 9:41 am  Reply to this post

• I don’t know McTiernan, but I’ve seen all his movies and I’ve to wonder if a lot of his early mojo in this town didn’t come because he had great cinematographers — Jan de Bont on “Die Hard” and “Hunt for Red October”; Tom McAlpine on “Predator” — plus Rene Russo’s knockout nude scenes for “Thomas Crown Affair.” He’s made a number of clunkers in a row — Rollerball, 13th Warrior, Die Hard 3, yuck/yawn all of ‘em. I’ll be interested in seeing his doc, because there’s nothing I wouldn’t put past Karl Rove, but I’m not sure that if he never makes another picture it’ll be any kind of big deal.

  Comment by Longtime Observer, Now Removed — April 19, 2009 @ 2:17 pm  Reply to this post

• This is so pathetic.

  You’re caught red handed. You admit it. You take it back.

  And your defense is that Karl Rove made you do it? Only in Hollywood would you make a movie about something else as your line of defense.

  All this does is permanently align him with Pellicano in that the approach dovetails with the kinds of statements that Pellicano was trying to sell the jury in his trial.

  I smell “conspiracy.”

  Ginning up Clinton era “culture wars” only underscores the players involved.

  Just as with Pellicano this is comical logic flagrantly breaking the law.

  Who’s running this operation anyway?

  Comment by Have you no decency, sir? — April 23, 2009 @ 5:33 am  Reply to this post