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Hoover, Communism, and the FBI
ChinaTalk
The Dream Actor or Director?
There was a Clint Eastwood movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio as J Edgar Hoover that came out about 10 years ago. And the two challenges there that I would say, you know, my director is going to have to solve or one that Hoover really was a bureaucrat. So he spent a lot of time just like sitting around at his desk, which is really interesting to write about, but it's really hard to do well on film. The old man makeup didn't quite hold together. Though that wasn't a terrible movie. But I think we have to solve those problems.
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