[flattorney]

Just for you because we know deep down inside you really love Charlie like a son :-) TAB

From Dr. Jack Wheeler’s article about Charlie Wilson and Ronald Reagan's War

This picture was taken during my wedding on May 25, 1986. The ceremony took place at the villa of a friend of mine in St. Tropez, France. My bride was a gorgeous California redhead named Rebel Holiday (yes, her born name). The dapper gentleman you see between us was serving as my best man. The reason he doesn't look like Tom Hanks is because he's the real Charlie Wilson. When Rebel tossed her garter after the ceremony, it was Charlie who caught it.

He promptly and gallantly put it on the shapely leg of his then-fiancée, Annelise Ilschenko - who was more beautiful and classier than Julia Roberts, having been Miss USA (in 1975 at age 17). Besides, Charlie hadn't seen Joanne Herring (played by Ms. Roberts) in years.

So it was a strange experience for me to see the movie Charley Wilson's War, a movie portraying events I participated in, to see how it was both true and not true, magnificent and ludicrous at the same time.

Source: “To The Point” by Dr. Jack Wheeler

[RDTF]

I plan to see the movie this weekend

[texanyankee]

I watched the History Channel broadcast last night that we had recorded on our DVR.

Fascinating & riveting, to say the least. It really refreshed a lot of my vague memories of that era. I had forgotten about the car crash Charlie had prior to his junket to Paris & Pakistan. I just got my job & was headquartered in Liberty County, TX. My supervisor & co-workers had nothing but bad to say about Charlie. I voted against him in his re-election bid and recall when he managed to come-from-behind to secure another victory.

Now, years later, I have to admire the guy for what he managed to pull off.

Now I want to get the book.

I probably wont be watching the Hollywood version until it comes out on DVD or PPV. We have a youngster & babysitters are scarce in our neck of the woods.

I’d love to meet the real Charlie Wilson - maybe one of these days I will get back to east Texas.

[lonestar]

I know he had been married and divorced at least once by then. Do you have a clue how many times?

SSSSShhhh! Don't tell anybody how much I respect and admire the er.....ah...well....hmmmmm...at a loss for public words. LOL!

[Bigun]

The wife and I saw the movie Saturday evening. Neither of us was greatly impressed by the technical quality of the movie but I enjoyed it somewhat because, thanks to you and this thread, I had more background info than I otherwise would have.

Personally, I think Gust and JoAnne were playing Charlie, in order to get what they needed, from the very beginning.