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What’s up with Miramax? Miramax, the Disney stepchild that’s giving monetary life to a proposed Bush-bashing flick by Michael Moore, is releasing “Buffalo Soldiers,” a movie demeaning the American military. Is this Welcome to the Wonderful Brave New World of Disney? Because of the questionable subject matter, the movie’s release had to be postponed five times. Based on news reports about its content, perhaps the powers that be should have left the thing on the shelf. Franklin J. Henderson, a retired army colonel and past president of the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry Association, told the Kansas City Star, “The film...

   WASHINGTON, July 21 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Citing racial insensitivity and the inappropriateness in using the name of a highly-decorated group of black servicemen in a portrayal of corrupt soldiers, members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 are demanding that the Miramax Film Corporation and its parent company The Walt Disney Company rename its upcoming film ''Buffalo Soldiers.''    The movie ''Buffalo Soldiers,'' based on a novel of the same name by Robert O'Connor and set to open in theaters on July 25, sarcastically portrays the U.S. Army in Germany in the late 1980s as filled with smugglers,...

Studio: Miramax Director: Gregor Jordan Writer(s): Eric Axel Weiss and Nora Maccoby Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Anna Paquin, Leon, Gabriel Mann, Elizabeth McGovern Release Date: July 25th, 2003 Notes: Production began on November 6, 2000 in Berlin and other parts of Germany and wrapped in February 2001. Currently scheduled to be released sometime in the first quarter of 2003; originally scheduled to open on July 19, 2002. Based upon the novel of the same name by Robert O'Connor. Plot Summary: Set just before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, this is the story of a...

A dark comedy film about the US military that opens with a painting of the Stars and Stripes being stamped on by soldiers is expected to raise a political storm. Buffalo Soldier: Joaquin Phoenix Buffalo Soldiers depicts rampant heroin use and trafficking by bored soldiers in Germany and the theft of lorryloads of Pentagon property, including guns that are sold off to gangsters. A poster advertising the film shows Joaquin Phoenix, playing an army "spiv", in combat fatiques with an ammunition belt wrapped around his neck, saying: "Steal all you can steal." The film has earned favourable comparisons to the...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN JULY 13, 2003 17:09:28 ET XXXXX DISNEY/MIRAMAX SET TO RELEASE FILM DEPICTING AMERICA MILITARY AS DRUG DEALERS, CRIMINALS; TIMING SEEN FUELING IRAQ WAR CONTROVERSY "Here in the UK no one gets upset, but over there, where the President is fighting these military campaigns in the name of democracy, the first casualty seems to be freedom of speech, the cornerstone of any democracy."                                 - BUFFALO SOLDIERS Director Gregor Jordan The WALT DISNEY CO. is set for maximum controversy when it releases a "warts-and-all" portrait of U.S. Army life with the fuss-film BUFFALO...

"Here in the UK no one gets upset, but over there, where the President is fighting these military campaigns in the name of democracy, the first casualty seems to be freedom of speech, the cornerstone of any democracy." - BUFFALO SOLDIERS Director Gregor JordanThe WALT DISNEY CO. is set for maximum controversy when it releases a "warts-and-all" portrait of U.S. Army life with the fuss-film BUFFALO SOLDIERS.s American men and women put their lives on the line in Iraq and other locations throughout the world, DISNEY and its subsidiary MIRAMAX have set a July 25 opening for the story of...

"Here in the UK no one gets upset, but over there, where the President is fighting these military campaigns in the name of democracy, the first casualty seems to be freedom of speech, the cornerstone of any democracy." - BUFFALO SOLDIERS Director Gregor Jordan The WALT DISNEY CO. is set for maximum controversy when it releases a "warts-and-all" portrait of U.S. Army life with the fuss-film BUFFALO SOLDIERS. As American men and women put their lives on the line in Iraq and other locations throughout the world, DISNEY and its subsidiary MIRAMAX have set a July 25 opening for the...

<p>BAIJI, Iraq — Initial tests on a pile of 50-gallon drums found by U.S. troops near this small industrial town north of Baghdad came up positive for chemicals used to make weapons of mass destruction, military officials said.</p> <p>"We've confirmed that we have a cyclo-sarin agent also known as CF," said Lt. Valerie Phipps, a chemical and biological weapons specialist with a reconnaissance element of the Army's 4th Infantry Division.</p>

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