Here is a good interview with Selleck.
And here is a pic of him as Ike:
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
Catherine Seipp on Ike: Countdown to D-Day
In an otherwise very interesting piece about the new A&E Eisenhower biopic starring Tom Selleck, Catherine Seipp overdoes it with her criticism of Saving Private Ryan. Her real problem isn't with the movie as much with the reaction to it. And in that sense I'm kind of inclined to agree. See Battleground or A Walk in the Sun and you're left with no illusions about the nature of WWII combat. But Saving Private Ryan is brilliant, and did bring the sacrifices made by those men home to later generations (including their children who had so often ignored dad's stories).
Here is a good interview with Selleck.
And here is a pic of him as Ike:
Here is a good interview with Selleck.
And here is a pic of him as Ike:
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For a second there, I thought Lee Marvin had returned from the grave to play Ike. Spooky.
Her criticisms of "Saving Private Ryan" aside, Seipp completely gets the Dieppe Raid wrong (although the fault there may actually lie with Chetwynd). First, 3,600 Canadians did not die at Dieppe, that was the figure including wounded and POWs. Second, the men did not consider it a suicide mission, although it may have been. Sure, they knew they could die, and were prepared to make the sacrifice, but there was no reason for them to suspect that the raid would not be a success, even though it was so poorly planned. The same is true for the troops on D-Day, although the plan then was thankfully much better.
Mark
Thanks Mark, I noticed the Dieppe mistakes, too, but I forgot to mention it in my haste to find a pic of Tom Selleck as Eisenhower. That kind of silly mistake is exactly the problem with most of Seipp's articles and her website--all of her good points get obscured by some stupid overstatement or blatant screw-up. But the Hollywood stuff was interesting.
Yeah, I agree the Hollywood stuff was interesting. Especially the part about Hitler and the Nazis not being the evil the Allies fought.
-Mark
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