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life and artLife and ArtWhat really happened.2NA=1154&NC=1210&DI=4098&PS=58572&PI=7315LifeAndArtfalsefalsespacernotembeddedlife and artThe Real John DillingerElliott J. GornfalseIs Public Enemies historically accurate?noThe Real John DillingerIs Michael Mann's Public Enemies historically accurate?noDid FBI agents shoot and kill John Dillinger on the streets of Chicago on July 22, 1934? Or was it the cops from East Chicago who fired the fatal rounds, the very officers who later received the reward money? Did the famous bank robber pull his gun at the last moment, as the feds maintained? Or were the eyewitnesses, who said they saw no weapon, telling the truth? Did he die with a mere $7 in his pocket, proof of J. Edgar Hoover's mantra that crime does not pay? Or was he wearing a very full money belt and an expensive ruby ring, as the Indiana bandit's sister claimed as long as she lived?truenotochyperlinkno20097173843PMWednesdayJulJuly197/1/2009 11:38:43 PM63382073923000000020097173843PMWednesdayJulJuly197/1/2009 11:38:43 PM633820739230000000life and artGaming the Robot RevolutionP. W. SingerfalseA military technology expert weighs in on Terminator: Salvation.noGaming the Robot RevolutionHow worried should you be about the robot takeover depicted in Terminator: Salvation?noTerminator: Salvation, the fourth installment of the Terminator franchise, takes place in 2018, a number of years after an artificial-intelligence network devised by the U.S. military, called Skynet, has turned on its masters and set off a nuclear war. The sentient computer now controls an army of killer robots tasked with hunting down and killing every last member of the human race. It's Hollywood popcorn at its best, if not for the scary fact that the movie touches on some very real trends in modern military technology.truenotochyperlinkno200952135048PMThursdayMayMay155/21/2009 7:50:48 PM633785178480000000200952135048PMThursdayMayMay155/21/2009 7:50:48 PM633785178480000000life and artMy Great-Uncles Tried To Kill HitlerRose DakinfalseOne family's story of the Valkyrie plot.noMy Great-Uncles Tried To Kill HitlerMy great-uncles participated in the Valkyrie plot to overthrow Hitler.noI may not look it, with my overgrown bangs and thrift-store shoes, but I'm descended from aristocrats and heroes of the German resistance. Years before the failed coup recounted in the movie Valkyrie, my great-grandfather Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord tried to overthrow Hitler. From 1930-34, he was the chief of the German military; later, as the commander of an army detachment, he tried to lure the Führer to a base on the western front to arrest him. His plots were never discovered, but his anti-Nazi attitude was well-known and he was forced to resign; he died of cancer in 1943. The following summer, two of his sons—my great-uncles—played their own small role in the real-life Valkyrie plot. They were among the very few who managed to escape.truenotochyperlinkno200911245941PMMondayJanJanuary161/12/2009 9:59:41 PM633673763810000000200911245941PMMondayJanJanuary161/12/2009 9:59:41 PM633673763810000000life and artThe Wrestler Is GoodMick FoleyfalseA three-time WWE champion explains what Darren Aronofksy's pro-wrestling movie gets right. noThe Wrestler Is GoodWhat WWE champion Mick Foley thought of The Wrestler.noA couple of years ago, I met with a respected and successful producer who believed that one day, the motion picture industry would finally make a great pro-wrestling movie … and that I was the guy to write it. I had written several books—fiction, nonfiction, and children's—over the course of my 20-plus years as a pro wrestler, which apparently made me a credible candidate for this type of project. But I didn't have high hopes for it. The wrestling business has been the source of more than one critically acclaimed documentary—I was one of the subjects of Barry Blaustein's Beyond the Mat—but I worried that my vocation was not respected enough to merit a thoughtful fictional screen representation. The chances of seeing a great pro-wrestling movie seemed right up there with the likelihood of a Mickey Rourke career renaissance.truenotochyperlinkno2008121872627PMThursdayDecDecember1912/19/2008 12:26:27 AM6336522518700000002008121872627PMThursdayDecDecember1912/19/2008 12:26:27 AM633652251870000000life and artPiracy on the High C'sBarbara SjoholmfalseA new Broadway musical sexes up the life of Grace O'Malley.noPiracy on the High C'sA new Broadway musical sexes up the life of Grace O'Malley.noAbout a minute after my travel book, The Pirate Queen: In Search of Grace O'Malley and Other Legendary Women of the Sea, hit bookstores three years ago, I began to get mail from swashbuckling readers craving more about pirates.truenotochyperlinkno200751052729PMThursdayMayMay175/10/2007 9:27:29 PM633144148490000000200751171649AMFridayMayMay75/11/2007 11:16:49 AM633144646090000000200311442708PMTuesdayJanJanuary161/14/2003 9:27:08 PM631781584280000000200311442708PMTuesdayJanJanuary161/14/2003 9:27:08 PM631781584280000000falsetruetruetruetruefalsetrue20011018111443PMThursdayOctOctober2310/19/2001 3:14:43 AM631390436830000000200181561548PMWednesdayAugAugust188/15/2001 10:15:48 PM631334961480000000