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BOGDANOVICH: MOVIES PARTLY TO BLAME

The director of “Targets” says: “People go to a movie to have a good time, and they get killed. … It makes me sick that I made a movie about it.”

This story first appeared in the August 3 issue of The Hollywood Reportermagazine.

 

Peter Bogdanovich is no stranger to violence — either onscreen or off. In an eerie foreshadowing of the Colorado tragedy, his very first film, 1968′s Targets, starring Boris Karloff, ends with a sniper, [...]

In Wake of Colorado Tragedy, Concern Over Propriety of Campaigning

9:44 a.m. | Updated FORT MYERS, Fla. – The mass shooting at a Colorado movie theater presented a challenge to both President Obama andMitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee, on Friday: Is it O.K. to continue campaigning in the midst of a national tragedy, and if so, how does that change the message?

Mr. Obama chose to cut short his campaign trip here and return to Washington after addressing the tragedy before the audience that came here initially expecting [...]