Harvey Keitel speaks. His stance is contradictory, from what I can tell.
Keitel: It’s a tough issue — because we don’t want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. There are also quality issues raised in the film that our citizens should see — and should be discussing amongst themselves.
You can compile certain things, as long as the truth remains the truth. You can’t put things together, compress them and then distort the reality.
Would you like some syrup with your waffling, Mr. Keitel?
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At what point does the “truth” become “truthiness”, Mr. Keitel? How many distortions of reality does it take before these “quality issues” you talk about becomes a debate between fantasy and reality?
Indeed, how can there be a fair debate when copies of the film have been given to only one side of the debate?
It’s not a tough issue at all, Mr. Keitel. The important facts in this particular timeline have been well documented. This drama does not represent these facts. It represents politically-biased fantasy. And what’s more — the facts that it choses to play loose with have important ramifications about how one views the overall big-picture of the events leading up to 9/11 (and beyond).
Allow me to present to you a picture which probably does not accurately represent the facts surrounding this interview that you participated in.
(click pic to watch interview)
Now, you DID talk about this docudrama (albeit, in a curiously careful way), but I heard that you are a liberal. And yet, this Photoshop commentary presents you as being a Republican supporter.
Let’s not “throw the baby out with the bathwater”, though. Let’s discuss this interview you gave with CNN and try to determine what goal you are trying to accomplish.
any slack here, as you can tell.
He makes too much money and this is too important an issue.
I don’t know how Keitel’s contract was structured, but if it is like most SAG agreements he would stand to lose money if the program is not aired.
BOO FUCKING HOO.
Won’t he be kicking himself if he is holding back what he really thinks about this film and ABC decides to drop it.
I was definitely not asking for sympathy for Keitel.
I was just pointing out that he had a vested interested in not throwing out the baby with the bathwater. (Also the actor ego is most certainly involved in wanting it to be shown.) He’s not an objective source as to the relevance/accuracy/ value of the miniseries.
I didn’t mean to imply that you were.
This was Keitel’s moment of truth.
And he’s a definite sell-out, in my books.
Yeah. And it is sad, because his acting skills are prodigious.
I REALLY hate it when men who turn me on turn out to be spineless apologists. Makes me question my hormonal judgement.