the death of richie is a 1977 american made-for-television drama film based on richie , a non-fiction book by thomas thompson about the 1972 death of george richard " richie " diener jr. at the hands of his father , who was ultimately not charged with the shooting death of his son .

the film premiered on nbc on january 10 , 1977 .

the death of richie

the death of richie
: teens of the 1970s will remember . . .
the death of richie
: teens of the 1970s will remember . . . - tribunedigital - chicagotribune
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moore recalled spreading her son’s ashes into the owen river in the days following his death .
february 27 , 2012 : the 40th anniversary of the murder of richie . russell diener is the last surviving member of the diener family .
delinquent youth are an identifiable target population to reduce disparities in early violent death .
“ripped from the headlines” tv movies have gotten a bad rap over the years—and deservedly so . after all , most such projects combine sensationalism and superficiality to create stupidity . yet the law of averages ensures that some timely telefilms are bound to be worthwhile . one example is the death of richie , the respectable dramatization of a grim real - life incident during which a suburban father shot his own teenaged son to death . like so many hand - wringing tv dramas of the ’70s , the death of richie illustrates the plight of parents whose teenagers become drug addicts .
death of richie could be the greatest drug movie ever made . robbie benson turns in an oscar caliber performance as richie and the scene where his trip - out room gets busted is destined to go down in movie history as one of the finest film sequences ever .
exclusive : as samantha womack dodged the national television awards , eastenders star shane richie moved to defend the soap over the cot death plot saying the soap handled it ‘bl * * dy brilliantly’ .
the book was from richie ' s father ' s perspective and tales of parenthood .
based on the book by famed author john gunther about the life and early death of his teenage son johnny , who died from a brain tumor .
“after the months and years of anticipation , one of my favourite parts about us putting a death video together is seeing the final outcome of richie and patrick’s work . the ‘no rules’ approach means i never know what to expect , apart from the fact i will never be disappointed .
examining the role of lifestyle and criminal history variables on the risk of homicide victimization .
deaths : participants’ deaths , from november 1995 to december 2011 , were tracked and verified by using death certificates .
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the face of “brandy ( you’re a fine girl ) ” is the lead singer of karisma , but the pipes belong to tunde adebimpe of tv on the radio .
urltoken please visit the above web site dedicated to richie diener . email me @ likeitwas4richie @ urltoken with your stories or comments about richie diener .
risks of drug - related death , suicide , and homicide during the immediate post - release period among people released from new york city jails , 2001 - 2005 .
a teenage girl whose inaction caused her mother ' s death arranges a similarly gruesome fate for her stepmother and brother .
richie ramone is the fastest , most powerful drummer who ever played with the legendary punk rock band the ramones . he joine
when richie and ernst sit in the car , hung over , they analyze the fairly silly lyrics of the 5th dimension’s “one less bell to answer . ”
the original nbc telecast , of the death of richie in january , 1977 , had richie scream as his father kills him with the shotgun . the nbc censors thought this was too intense , and edited the scream from all subsequent showings . this sound - byte is not available on any dvd prints or current editions of the movie and is presumed
lost
, to the point where today ' s audiences ( and even those who saw reruns of the film on television ) are completely unaware that such sound - byte did occur in the film .
“rave on” plays several times throughout the episode—a surefire way to fuck with richie’s head .
once richie starts getting into trouble with the law , george intervenes by helping richie get a job , and carol joins a support group for parents in similar situations . yet none of the family’s efforts impede richie’s downward spiral . eventually , violent clashes occur , with richie threatening his father at one point by brandishing a pair of scissors . the parents seek an order of protection , deepening the schism with their son , and the tension culminates during a deadly showdown in the family basement .
the 38th anniversary of richie diener ' s murder by the hands of his own father , is rapidly approaching . anyone out there know sue bernstein , pictured in the life magazine article above ?
few longitudinal studies of delinquent youth have examined risk factors for early violent death . some studies had too few deaths to analyze risk factors . 1 , 5 the largest and most recent investigations found substance abuse , gang involvement , and criminal activity are among the risk factors associated with early violent death . 6 , 7 , 8
the long - running bbc soap , which picked up three gongs at last night’s ceremony , came under fire at the start of the year over dramatic scenes involving ronnie mitchell , played by womack , swapping her dead baby , a victim of cot death , with the newborn son of kat and alfie moon .
richie , an avid gun collector , was toying with a gun called the “snake charmer” while watching tv in his bedroom when it went off . a formal investigation by the los angeles coroner’s office later confirmed that his death was an accident .
the heavy workload of both parents left little time for their children . “i demanded a lot of richie , ” moore later admitted . “i was responsible for a lot of alienation . ”
the story of richie diener , a new york teenager whose life and death was depicted in the may 5 , 1972 issue of life magazine , a book by thomas thompson , and a movie . he was murdered by his own father . richie ' s life was remade into a film and a book , but his real story has never been told . did you know richie diener , of east meadow , long island , new york ? email me at likeitwas4richie @ urltoken
but perhaps her biggest tragedy came in 1980 when her only child , son richie , died at the age of 24 .
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• when richie shows up late at the bat mitzvah , zak finally confronts him , saying that richie doesn’t respect him as a record man , and ( to the dismay of his family ) throws richie to the ground . at the end of the reception , as the band packs up their equipment , zak listens to a young man with the voice of an angel ( actually , the voice of trey songz ) sitting at a piano , covering bowie’s “life on mars ? ” the light goes on in zak’s eyes , as he realizes that he could sign this kid .
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another thing that bugs me about the ernst business is that , up until this point , his flashbacks haven’t been a huge part of the show . it seems strange to attach so much dramatic weight to his death and specter .
we examined rates of and risk factors for firearm homicide and other causes of death in delinquents 16 years after detention . our study analyzes gender differences ; compares hispanics , african americans , and non - hispanic whites ; and includes a representative sample of delinquents .
to our knowledge , this is the first large - scale study to document the high death rate of delinquent females in adulthood , providing new data on mortality rates and modifiable risk factors in this vulnerable population . although risk of mortality is lower in delinquent females than males , delinquent females died at nearly 5 times the rate of females in the general population .
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freudenberg n , daniels j , crum m , perkins t , richie be .
writer - director of
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author of three cinema books , filmmaker .
potential conflict of interest : the authors have indicated they have no potential conflicts of interest to disclose .
in flashback , we see the night of ernst’s death : richie drives a convertible recklessly around coney island ; devon and ingrid drink and canoodle in the back seat ; ernst clambers around the car and demands they stop for a hot dog at nathan’s . the fun ends when they collide with a truck . devon apparently suffers a miscarriage and ernst’s skull cracks open on the pavement , right next to the cyclone roller coaster ( hence the episode’s title ) .
i remember the family passing on this because the ad gave no indication of it being especially unique . the ad asked
who killed richie ?
and my folks immediately decided that it sure looked like richie killed richie and that the movie was opting for some sort of phony - baloney
society killed him
claim . my parents are
progressive
in all kinds of ways but have no sympathy for suicides . i thank you for clearing this up .
the “snake charmer” was eventually taken off the market because of its “hair - trigger” instability .
the death of richie
, more than thirty - five years later , remains a pretty effective made - for - television movie . it is fairly tough going at times , for several reasons . the main reason is that it portrays drug addiction in a pretty realistic fashion , showing that there is no easy way out of the situation for both the addict and his loved ones . another reason is with the character of richie . he is a pretty unlikable fellow , though after some time i realized that may have been the point , to show that drugs can make anyone into a repulsive sort of person . benson gives an excellent performance as richie , though ben gazarra also deserves kudos portraying the struggling father who is not completely sympathetic . if there is a flaw in the movie , it may be that it does not illustrate how richie got into drugs in the first place - the movie starts in the middle of his addiction . though i do realize that movies don ' t always have the time to show every detail of a situation .
the northwestern juvenile project is a prospective longitudinal study of health needs and outcomes of a stratified random sample of 1829 youth ( 657 females , 1172 males ; 524 hispanic , 1005 african american , 296 non - hispanic white , 4 other race / ethnicity ) detained between 1995 and 1998 . data on risk factors were drawn from interviews ; death records were obtained up to 16 years after detention . we compared all - cause mortality rates and causes of death with those of the general population . survival analyses were used to examine risk factors for mortality after youth leave detention .
it ' s been 40 years today . may richie continue to rest in peace .
richie puts on little richard’s “keep a - knockin’” when first gets to his office .
delinquent youth continue to have substantially higher mortality rates than the general population in adulthood , irrespective of gender or race / ethnicity . homicide was the most prevalent cause of death among male ( 90 % ) and female ( 42 % ) participants ; nearly all homicides involved firearms . african - american males had the highest mortality rates but among the lowest mortality ratios because death rates among african americans in the general population are high . 37 our findings mirror racial / ethnic disparities in the general population . in 2010 , african - american males comprised 14 . 6 % of the general population aged 15 to 29 years 11 but nearly 75 % of deaths by homicide . 37
joint consideration of distal and proximal predictors of premature mortality among serious juvenile offenders .
i ' ve noticed several inconsistencies between the article and the book . the summer camp , the last day of his life , and other things .
i was in high school in the late 70 ' s ( no pun intended ) when this movie first aired . it had the exact opposite of it ' s intended effect . the more stoned you were the funnier this movie was . richie ' s
trip room
was the most hilarious of all . most of this movie was so over wrought , so hyperbolic , that today i look back on the death of richie as camp rather than good drama . i no longer smoke pot or do other drugs , but if this movie were to be rerun on some retro / classics channel i might consider a few bong hits to get me in the proper mood to watch it .
homicide is the third leading cause of mortality in general population youth aged 15 to 29 years . groups at greatest risk for early violent death ( racial / ethnic minorities , males , poor persons , and urban youth ) are overrepresented in the juvenile justice system .
later in the day , peewee and richie speak with an experienced soldier who further confirms the rumor of a coming truce . richie writes a letter to kenny , telling him that the war is going to end very soon . after killing time at the base for ten days , richie , peewee , and a terrified young man named jenkins are finally assigned to a camp near chu lai . on the truck headed for their new squad , peewee says he is not afraid , but richie can tell that peewee is just as frightened as he is . jenkins begins crying , which calms richie , who feels braver by comparison .
kip and the guitarist he meets play along to the stooges’ “no fun” before stealing the instruments from the store .
based on a true story , this drama depicts the downfall of teenager richie werner ( robby benson ) through a destructive drug habit . induced by peers to use drugs , richie is drawn deeper into a pattern of addiction , to the horror of his girlfriend , mother ( eileen brennan ) and brother ( lance kerwin ) . richie ' s behavior is dealt with most forcefully by his father ( ben gazzara ) , who will not tolerate drugs . when richie becomes increasingly violent , his family must take action . initial release : january 10 , 1977
kristine & michelle , my condolences on your father ' s death . i too read the book and saw the movie years ago and never forgot it . the funny thing about the book was that even though the focus was on richie , i always thought brick ( lenny ) was the more interesting character . i had always wondered what happened to brick and was able to correspond with him via email ( still have them ) . i could tell through his words that he carried a sadness about richie and missed him alot .
the story of billy mills , the american indian that came from obscurity , to win the 10 , 000 meter long distance foot race in the tokyo olympics .
richie performed in over 500 shows around the world with the ramones and wrote several critically - acclaimed and fan - favorite songs for the albums animal boy , too tough to die and halfway to sanity . punk rock icon , joey ramone , remarked that “ [ richie ] saved the band as far as i’m concerned . he’s the greatest thing to happen to the ramones . he put the spirit back in the band . ”
delinquent youth are at risk for early violent death after release from detention . however , few studies have examined risk factors for mortality . previous investigations studied only serious offenders ( a fraction of the juvenile justice population ) and provided little data on females .
according to another acquaintance of richie ' s ( his online handle was
keeno
) , richie and russell didn ' t even get along , and that richie had beat his brother up a few times for
acting gay
. i also have to wonder if the whole dance thing was b . s . if richie hated his father so much by 1971 , why would he let his dad help him sell raffle tickets for a car ?
the four soldiers finally arrive at their new base . the commanding officer tells richie that his medical file has not yet arrived . richie tries to write a letter home but cannot find the right words . that night , richie , peewee , and jenkins go on night patrol with their squad . simpson , the squad sergeant , warns the new soldiers not to get him killed because of their inexperience , as he is just four months away from completing his tour of duty . the patrol is more terrifying than richie had ever expected , but goes smoothly until the very end . just as they are reentering their camp , jenkins steps on a land mine , and is killed instantly .
but speaking to urltoken on the red carpet before the awards ceremony last night , richie , who plays alfie moon , insisted that eastenders had been ‘sensitive’ in relation to its handling of the storyline and rather than be an underhand ploy to grab ratings , it was simply pushing the boundaries of script - writing .
no . camp eagle feather , on raquette lake in new york , was a great water skiing camp . one of richie ' s bunk mates for a while was the world famous waterskier , wayne grimditch ! richie ' s last year at camp was also the last year the camp was in operation . the piciniches owned and ran the camp . the owner ' s wife was eleanor . she treated everyone like family . signed : wild in the woods
• the song richie and ernst are trying to figure out the inscrutable lyrics of ( “one less bell to answer / one less egg to fry” ) when they wake up in the stolen car : the fifth dimension’s 1970 hit “ one less bell to answer . ”
my email is cavidman @ yahoo . com . anyone who wants to talk about the book , the movie , what is what like back then , richie ' s side of the story , feel free to reach out . a couple of my dad ' s books are being revived as tv series and i think this story could be the best of all .
i lived on midland urltoken well . my brother graduated in 73 , and knew richie as well . not on good terms though . . . did you live down on the end of the block near the fitzgeralds , or were you closer to the greene ' s ?
on the trip over , richie befriends judy duncan , an army nurse , and harold gates , a cocky young black soldier from chicago whom his friends call peewee . the plane stops overnight in osaka , japan , and due to another bureaucratic mishap , the soldiers are forced to pay for their own dinners and sleep on benches in the airport . richie feels unease at these signs of what he sees as the army’s general incompetence . he buys a souvenir for his younger brother , kenny . when he finally arrives in vietnam , richie is separated from judy duncan , but is assigned to the same barracks as peewee . though the sound of artillery in the distance makes him anxious , richie is somewhat comforted by the fact that the camp in vietnam looks exactly like his basic - training facility back in massachusetts .
uncertain of his future goals , seventeen - year - old richie perry , a black high school graduate from harlem , travels to vietnam to fight in the united states army . when richie leaves basic training for vietnam , he harbors a host of illusions about the war and the army . he confidently believes that the medical profile he has received for a knee injury will be properly processed and prevent him from engaging in combat . he also believes in the flurry of rumors about imminent peace and in the prevalent romantic myths about warfare .
evil - doer full name richie madano alias none origin out for justice occupation gangster powers . . .
the song playing during andrea’s meeting with the american century team sounds like james brown , but i can’t be sure . either way , richie badly sings the beatles’ “i saw her standing there” over it when he enters the room .
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in 1971 , richie moved with his father to fresno , california , where the teenager thrived and even talked of plans for college . but when meeker was transferred out of town , richie persuaded his parents to let him remain in fresno on his own to complete his senior year . soon afterward , he began to use drugs .
doe - eyed ’70s dreamboat robby benson stars as richie werner , the oldest of two sons in a middle - class american family . much to the chagrin of his repressed parents , george ( ben gazzara ) and carol ( eileen brennan ) , richie runs with a gang of dropouts who abuse booze , grass , and pills . tortured by shyness and upset by his inability to score with girls , richie even builds a hidden room inside the werner home , converting a crawlspace into a drug lair complete with blacklight posters and a strobe lamp .
the problem is not just that the plot twist is hackneyed , it’s that it’s hard to care about one more manifestation of richie’s cocaine problem . he’s been inhaling coke and violating social norms since the pilot episode , so there’s not much new here , other than watching the actor bobby cannavale turn up the volume until the knob twists off . richie hasn’t given viewers much reason to root for him , either as a hero or as an antihero . his descent into the gutter is presumably meant to be a thrilling wallow in bad behavior , but it’s just pathetic and adolescent . furthermore , richie has shown no signs of actually being an effective record - company president at any point , unless the metric of success is “most frequent speeches about the importance of real rock ‘n’ roll . ”
the link between juvenile offending and victimization : the influence of risky lifestyles , social bonding , and individual characteristics .
in 1944 , in brooklyn , two jewish kids become friends . one is from a very conservative family , and the other is more liberal . the issues of importance of tradition , parental expectations and the formation of israel cause constant friction .
brunner leads the men on a deadly mission to track down a group of vietcong—north vietnamese guerilla forces—along a river . after a series of mistakes and miscalculations , a firefight breaks out , leaving both richie and peewee wounded . richie’s medical profile is finally processed while he is recovering , and peewee’s wounds are serious enough to earn him a discharge from the army . peewee and richie fly home on the same plane , along with caskets containing dead soldiers . they try to stand tall for the new recruits , who are just arriving in vietnam .
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causes of death of delinquent youth at ages 15 to 29 compared with the general population ( n = 1829 ) , standardized on ccjtdc population . general population refers to all males and females ages 15 to 29 years who died in cook county , illinois , in 2005 . other cause of death includes internal causes and other accidents . compared with the general population , delinquent males and females experienced a significantly ( p < . 05 ) higher percentage of deaths due to homicide and its subcategory , homicide by firearm . the total proportion of deaths due to homicide ( firearm and other ) were 90 % for delinquent males , 39 % for general population males , 42 % for delinquent females , and 14 % for general population females . due to rounding error , sums of percentages in the figure may not be accurate .
moore gave birth to richie just one year into her first marriage with meeker at the age of 18 . by the time he was 3 , she had steady work on tv . when richie was 6 , moore and meeker divorced . six months later , she married tinker , who had four children from a previous marriage .
hi , i read the book
richie
when i was very young , and never forgotten it . i was horrified that the father killed his own son . richie needed help from his dad , not to be murdered by him . it was just so very sad .
richie is wounded in a battle and transferred to a hospital . during the peaceful weeks spent recuperating , he begins to remember the joys of safety and gains a new sense of the horrors of war . when he is declared healthy and ordered to rejoin his unit , he wonders how he can possibly go back into combat and considers deserting the army . in the end , though , he rejoins his unit as ordered .
although homicide rates have dropped dramatically since their all - time high in the late 1990s , 66 11 101 people were killed in firearm homicides in 2011 . 67 we failed to reach the surgeon general’s goal ( from healthy people 2010 ) to cut homicide rates in one - half . 68 our study of delinquent youth identifies the vulnerability of females , the high risk of mortality among african americans and hispanics , and the importance of modifiable risk factors ( alcohol use disorder , gang membership , and drug dealing ) . moreover , disparities in life expectancy between african americans and non - hispanic whites 69 may persist , in part , because delinquent african - american youth have higher death rates from homicide . delinquent youth are an identifiable target population to reduce disparities in early violent death .
richie’s failed attempt at having sex with heather is scored by “rocket 88 . ” though originally credited to jackie brenston and his delta cats , the band is actually ike turner’s kings of rhythm .
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when my dad wrote this book , i always told my friends
i bet richie has a version of this also
. my dad and i spent a weekend with george and russel and i felt such sadness for richie ' s brother . guys i am very interested in other sides to this story . richie could have very easily been me except i was living in los angeles about the same time .
saw this movie summer 1978 while on vacation in florida . never forgot this movie . had a profound effect on me . back then it seemed like a mean , bossy dad was the cause of this . now it is obvious it was a teen who could not survive socially in the outer world who had a lot of internal conflicts and a dad who bore a lot of abuse in the working world trying to support his family . neither needed abuse from the other and both saw the other as another problem they did not need . both were victims . the mom and dad probably suffered until they died . hopefully they are all reunited in a different sphere in peace and love with each other . none of them deserved this . if richie has lived i think time would have revealed that there were many issues richie had that were unrelated to his father such as abuse by a stranger or someone else . it would be interesting to hear richie ' s brother describe life before and after richie ' s death if he is still alive .
dear kristine lancome , please post your dad ' s obituary , or send it to me at likeitwas4richie @ urltoken from our brief correspondence this year , i knew he was a decent man who was still sad about his friend ' s tragic death at the hands of his own father .
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in her memoir , moore recalled receiving a phone call from a “frantic and sobbing” richie , who admitted he was in trouble with a drug dealer . “i realized the extent of the tangle that was now my son’s life . ”
anybody who’s ever seen “the sixth sense” ( or “the ghost whisperer , ” or “battlestar galactica” ) will cotton to ernst’s true nature pretty quickly , but the clues are steadily doled out anyway : ernst doesn’t talk to anybody except richie , he mysteriously disappears and reappears , he has a “ketchup” stain on his pants . at the end of the episode , richie and devon both stagger home to connecticut , but when richie tells her that he’s been partying with ernst , she reacts in horror . they have another fight , but this time devon flees with the children in her station wagon .
to celebrate the fact that the show finally made it to the revelation that it had been telegraphing for the past hour , we then watch one of the series’ trademarks : a performance by an actor impersonating a 1950s rock star . in this case , buddy holly sings a haunting “rave on” in front of the cyclone , surrounded by smoke and lit by neon . the song ends , and we see 1973 richie back at the cyclone , breathing hard , forcing himself to confront his errors .
speaking of which , hbo doubled down on the bowie love tonight by featuring another piano - driven cover of “life on mars” on girls .
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this week’s “vinyl” is an hour of richie and devon revisiting their pasts . for devon , that means staying with her friend ingrid at the chelsea hotel , talking about how lonely she is in connecticut and posing nude for ingrid’s artist boyfriend . for richie , that means snorting cocaine and then snorting more cocaine .
we estimated all - cause mortality rates in cook county by using the single - decrement period life table method . 28 to make contemporaneous comparisons between our cohort data and period data from cook county , we created 3 synthetic cohorts from the years 2000 , 2005 , and 2008 . we standardized cook county rates to reflect the racial / ethnic and gender distribution of the ccjtdc population ; 95 % cis were based on the poisson distribution . 29 we used the delta method to compute rate ratios comparing mortality rates and specific causes of death .
as richie witnesses ever - increasing levels of destruction and brutality , he begins to doubt whether there is any straightforward morality in war . he sees that the line between good and bad is often ambiguous . he also becomes disillusioned with the selfishness of his commanding officers , particularly the company commander , captain stewart , who is more concerned with earning a promotion than he is with the safety of the soldiers under his command . when richie’s platoon leader , lieutenant carroll , is killed during a combat mission , richie begins a serious search for answers to why he and his fellow soldiers are even fighting in vietnam in the first place . though his friends insist that such thoughts are futile and dangerous , richie feels compelled to find meaning within the chaos . he also longs for some way to communicate his confused thoughts and emotions to his family , but he remains unable to do so . richie is not sure how to sort out the emotions he feels or how to communicate them effectively to civilians who have never seen combat .
richie ' s birthday is one month from today . someone - please photograph ( only ) richie ' s grave and gravestone , and email it to me at likeitwas4richie @ urltoken . . . they will be posted on this blog
of the 1829 original participants , 111 died : 7 % of males and nearly 4 % of females . among those who died , 75 ( 68 % ) were homicides . of these , 68 ( 91 % ) participants were killed with firearms (
all the other guys in the neighborhood thought i was going to college . i wasn’t , and the army was the place i was going to get away from all the questions .
let’s go back to that car sequence . as heavy and dumb a cinderblock as the actual crash is , there’s no denying the power of the vision that arrives with the aftermath . when richie awakes from the accident surrounded by pain—ernst dead on the ground and devon writhing in the back seat with blood pouring from between her legs—he gazes at the coney island cyclone directly in front of him . a specter of buddy holly then appears before the vehicle , rocking his way through “rave on” as the historic wooden rollercoaster looms in the background . when separated from vinyl ’s melodrama , that’s a striking image on its own , hypnotic to look at and emblematic of how we’ll always tie certain songs to certain events , for better or for worse .
richie diener was murdered by his father back in 1972 . got questions ? ? ? ive got answers ! ! !
their relationship grew strained as richie grew up and rebelled , and mother and son were estranged for a long period .
over time , moore and richie reconciled their relationship , and he even began landing some small acting roles on tv .
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delinquency is commonly associated with the perpetration of violence , but delinquent youth are also at risk for early violent death . 1 – 5 in their classic study of 500 white delinquent male subjects sampled in the 1940s , 2 glueck and glueck found that nearly 5 % had died by age 32 years , compared with 2 . 2 % of nondelinquent control subjects . increased risk persisted to age 65 years . 3 a more recent longitudinal study of delinquent youth found that their mortality rates , after adjusting for demographic differences , were > 4 times those of general population youth . 4
gang membership ( 78 . 4 % of males ; 40 . 7 % of females ) and drug dealing ( 85 . 8 % of males ; 48 . 4 % of females ) were significantly associated with external - cause mortality and homicide . the hazard of external - cause mortality and homicide decreased over time (
by the end of “cyclone , ” it’s looking like zak might end up being more of a musical savior to american century than richie . sitting at the wind - down of his daughter’s bat mitzvah , having ejected richie for showing up high and gradually ruining the lives of his coworkers , zak stares intently at a young man playing “life on mars” on the piano . it’s not clear exactly what he sees in the rendition—whether he’s becoming open to piano covers at the label , wants to pursue bowie more doggedly , or something else altogether—but he’s clearly moved . i doubt the show would do anything so severe as make zak the protagonist , but a more prominent role for him would be most welcome . because at this point , vinyl would be much more unique if he and richie started working in cooperation , not in conflict . we’ve seen so many of the main character’s flaws . it’s time to see some oh his strengths , and hopefully a lot less dead people .
am i right in assuming that most of you figured out ernst was dead ( or at least imaginary ) from the moment richie started talking to him ? i say that not to flaunt any kind of intellectual superiority—i’m a very gullible viewer—but to point out how tired a device it is : the concept of a mentally unstable character with a devil on his shoulder , a devil that encourages him to go further down the rabbit hole of depravity and addiction .
i ' d rather see parents try to be more understanding and aware of the help that is available out there as a result of this tragedy .
it’s clearly meant to be a big dramatic reveal when the camera pans around to show the huge bloody hole in the back of ernst’s head , but any viewer who is surprised to discover that ernst is actually a cocaine - induced hallucination was probably also shocked at the end of each episode of “scooby - doo . ”
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lying in bed , richie reflects that he joined the army in part to earn money to send home to kenny , and in part to avoid tough questions about his impossible dreams for the future . over breakfast the next morning , peewee tells richie that he likes the army because for the first time in his life he has exactly what everyone else has—the same clothing , shoes , food , and so on . a large african - american soldier named rings approaches richie and peewee and asks them to cut their skin so that they can all become blood brothers . he explains that they need to stick together as fellow blacks . when richie and peewee refuse to do as rings asks , he calls them uncle toms .
back with his unit , richie learns that the old squad leader , sergeant simpson , has been sent home . his replacement is the racist sergeant dongan , who always places black soldiers in the most dangerous positions . early in their tour of duty , there are racial and ethnic tensions among the squad members , which frequently result in physical confrontations . as the squad’s bond grows stronger , however , petty prejudices begin to fade , and the squad bands together against dongan’s racism . soon , dongan is killed , and the squad is placed under the command of one of its own soldiers , corporal brunner .
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dr teplin obtained funding , conceptualized and designed the study , supervised the study and acquisition of data , drafted and revised the manuscript , and interpreted data ; dr jakubowski conceptualized and designed the study , drafted and revised the manuscript , conducted statistical analyses , and interpreted data ; dr abram obtained funding , conceptualized and designed the study , supervised the study and acquisition of data , and critically reviewed and revised the manuscript ; ms olson and ms stokes provided administrative and material support , contributed to the initial drafting of the manuscript , critically reviewed and revised the manuscript , and interpreted data ; dr welty obtained funding , conceptualized and designed the study , supervised the study and acquisition of data , drafted and revised the manuscript , conducted statistical analyses , and interpreted data ; and all authors approved the final manuscript as submitted .
having read the book as a teenager and then watching the movie , i was concerned my older brother would meet the same fate as richie . police were always at our house breaking up fights between my brother and my father . it must be hard to be a jr . like my brother and richie . now i am a high school teacher and show the movie to my students , although its a little outdated . the message is still the same : addiction destroys families .
i was a classmate of richie ' s at east meadow high school in the 10th grade - this is 1970 . a couple of times we crossed paths in school ( the school had 4000 students ) and if i recall we were in spanish class when he said to me
i got to take a wizzz
. i remember how he always exagerated and stretched his words - so he says come wih me so we can get out of this class . so i go to the boys room across the hall and he proceeds to pee outside the window instead of the urinal . of course i am laughing but somehow someone saw the pee coming out of the boys room window and was searching class to class to figure out who did this . they never did . until now .
as richie searches for meaning in the war , he also searches for his own sense of self . he struggles to unravel his motivations for enlisting in the army , wondering whether his reason was a selfless one , based on the desire to earn money to provide for kenny , or a selfish one—simply to escape from the hard life he faced in harlem . richie also forces himself to confront the uncomfortable question of what he will do when he returns to civilian life . though he is highly intelligent and highly motivated and has ambitions to become a writer , his family is too poor to send him to college . richie’s father abandoned the family years ago , and his mother has since become an alcoholic . richie is afraid that without an education he has no career potential , and he is unsure what he has to look forward to if he survives .
no , richie never lived to graduate , as he died at the end of february . this friday it will be 43 years to the day he died . i wonder if he could have pulled it together and focused enough to keep his grades up and graduate ?
my name is lenny . in real life i was richies best friend . in the movie and book they called me brick . i know the real story about richie and his father . it . . .
though womack was noticeably absent from the awards ceremony , shane took it upon himself , as a member of the cast in the plot , to make clear that eastenders ran the storyline purely based on the fact it was dramatic as opposed to raising its profile .
an interesting side note : the car crash that occurred near the end of richie ' s life , that really seemed to push his father over the edge - there was richie , lenny , mark ( i think ) and a fourth member , whose name was john , i believe . if i remember correctly , the next day or so , his family sent him away to rehab , far from east meadow and the drugs , etc . . . he was found dead of an od on new year ' s eve , 1979 ( i think ) . the above is all according to the afore mentioned keno , whose blog / story i have read .
‘i don’t think it is ever about ratings and i’m aware some of the complaints actually happened before the show went out so i think that actually says more about the people who don’t watch the show , ’ he said .
you know . . . i was thinking : even the best marksmen on the shooting range will often , when in real physical danger , miss their target . george diener was not a policeman . he never used his gun against anything but stationary targets before he killed richie . i have two theories here . one : unless there was a fluke , he couldn ' t have possibly hit richie in the heart from the distance that was claimed . i ' m beginning to think he shot richie at point - blank range . two : if he wasn ' t shot point - blank , it would explain all the questions about why he couldn ' t have shot richie in the arm or leg . too much adrenaline screws with your aim . explains why the second shot went wide and missed completely .
hi , my name is lenny . you might know me better by the name brick . that was my name in the movie and book . if you knew richie please let us know by leaving a message .
we addressed these limitations by using newly available data from the northwestern juvenile project , a large - scale longitudinal study of health needs and outcomes of delinquent youth . 4 , 16 , 17 we used interview data and obtained official death records up to 16 years after participants’ baseline interview , analyzing all - cause mortality and deaths from all external causes ( homicides , unintentional injuries , and suicides ) , 18 homicide alone , and firearm homicide alone . in the present article , we : ( 1 ) calculated mortality rates according to gender , race / ethnicity , and age , comparing them with the general population in cook county , illinois ( hereafter referred to as general population ) ; ( 2 ) compared causes of death with the general population ; and ( 3 ) determined the association between mortality and modifiable risk factors , such as substance use disorders , gang membership , and drug dealing .
4 . the music nearly came to a halt on saturday night . just hours into the festival , woodstock’s organizers were hemorrhaging money . the sheer number of attendees and the logistics of collecting money and tickets at the gates had forced them to abandon the idea of a for - pay concert and instead let everyone in for free . in addition , they were forced to spend tens of thousands of dollars contracting helicopters to transport food , supplies and the musical acts to and from the site . weeks earlier , in an effort to attract music’s biggest stars to the festival , woodstock’s organizers had agreed to pay some artists more than twice their going rate—and on saturday many of them demanded that they be paid , in cash , before going on stage . fearful of what the crowd would do if the music came to a halt , organizer john roberts agreed to use his trust fund as collateral for an emergency loan . organizers finally convinced the manager of a local bank to open up close to midnight on saturday to get them the funds .
i remember , somebody saying
fuck you !
to a salesman at the furniture store , cause the guy who said that , was sitting in a chair there , eating a snadwich . he then threw the rest of the sandwich into the guy ' s face .


code breakers is an espn original entertainment television film that was first broadcast december 10 , 2005 at 9 pm et on espn and espn hd .

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code breakers ( film )

a return to glory and
code breakers
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two female british code breakers team with american cryptographers to solve a series of murders in san francisco .
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world war ii may have been won by our side because of what british code - breakers accomplished at a countryside retreat named bletchley park .
the film follows the pioneering code breaker and his team at bletchley park in a race against time to break the german enigma code during the darkest days of world war ii .
booktopia - code breakers , inside the shadow world of signals intelligence in australia ' s two bletchley parks by craig collie , 9781743312100 . buy this book online .
based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst alan turing , the film portrays the nail - biting race against time by turing and his brilliant team of code - breakers at britain ' s top - secret government code and cypher school at bletchley park , during the darkest days of world war ii .
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while there are some marked differences between the book , a return to glory , and
code breakers ,
the differences don ' t detract from the fundamental truths derived from and portrayed in the book .
during world war two susan , a pattern recognition expert , mathematician millie , information gatherer jean and lucy , a young girl with an incredible memory , work as code - breakers at bletchley park . in . . .
the movie , which will open this year’s london film festival , stars keira knightley as turing’s friend and fellow code breaker joan clarke , who worked alongside turing in bletchley park .
during the world war ii , the mathematician alan turing joins a team of code - breakers at top - secret facility at bletchley park to try to decipher the code of the german enigma machine . turing is a homosexual genius and during two years , he and his team successfully develop another machine to decipher the enigma .
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press play on code breakers , the first australian exhibition celebrating the achievements of women working in the games industry . whether it’s making commercial hits or indie titles , these women know games , contributing as directors , programmers , developers , artists , writers , producers and designers .
a film about homosexual wartime codebreaker and father of modern computing alan turing has been attacked by his biographer .
enigma hero turing ( left ) played a key role in breaking the german enigma code during the second world war while working at bletchley park . benedict cumberbatch ( right ) is set to play him in an american funded film
the sports network , espn , premiered
code breakers ,
on saturday evening , 10 december 2005 following its filming , which began on 6 june 2005 , and a 6 december telecast of the documentary , then subsequently released both on a hart sharp dvd , 11 jul 2006 .
my earnest hope is the paper that follows will answer most of the questions regarding historical fact vs film dramatization .
a young genius frantically races against time to crack an enemy code and solve the mystery surrounding the woman he loves .
o the portrayal of him within the context of events described in the book and depicted in the film ,
code breakers ,
and the recalling of those events , brought an emotional release for all he had been through in his life . neither he nor his classmate in cadet company h - 2 were ever thanked by the academy for their participation in the breaking of the cheating ring in 1951 .
during world war ii , the english mathematical genius alan turing tries to crack the german enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians .
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in 1952 , four women who worked at the wartime code - breaking center , bletchley park , reunite to track down a serial killer .
the sunday times reports that mr hodges has been sent a script of the film and is ' alarmed by the inaccuracies it ' .
the film follows the break - up of their relationship , which happened because turing was unable to live a lie by marrying her .
in his off - duty hours , hilton ( played by matthew beard in the film ) earned a reputation as a convivial companion .
in this thoughtful thriller loosely based on the true story of second world war code - breakers at bletchley park , thomas jericho is a gifted but unstable mathematician and cryptologist who returns to his job after having a nervous breakdown caused by overwork and a failed love affair with his co - worker claire romilly . however , he is soon thrown into fresh intrigue as , after he starts work on a seemingly uncrackable german code , claire goes missing and it becomes apparent that a spy has infiltrated the enigma project .
turing , whose genius is attributed to significantly shortening the length of wwii , helped save thousands of lives after discovering the algorithm to break the nazi’s code .
that accuracy wasn ' t that easy to come by , however ; most of the records of turing ' s work for british intelligence during world war ii were destroyed . following the war , nearly every trace of bletchley park ' s day - to - day operations—where turing ( played by benedict cumberbatch in the film ) and his fellow code - breakers were working on cracking germany ' s enigma code—was either erased from history or kept extremely confidential . ( it ' s one of history ' s awful ironies that the general public found out turing was gay , by way of an indecency trial brought by british authorities , long before they found out he was largely responsible for outsmarting the nazis . )
the made for television movie ,
code breakers
was based primarily on the first three chapters , plus excerpts from chapters 8 , 10 , and 20 and other factual information found in the appendices of the book , a return to glory . fundamentally accurate in portraying the essential truths and key figures in west point ' s 1951 honor incident , the film story does , for several reasons , differ from the book in a number of ways , and should be pointed out in use of either or both the book and dvd in classrooms .
alongside the fun , code breakers ponders important questions in the post - gamergate landscape : how do women carve a path in an industry that has historically been hostile towards them ? how do we encourage diversity ? what does a more inclusive games industry look like ? each maker reflects on the sometimes challenging journey they’ve made in this male - dominated industry , revealing the human stories behind their games .
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice , telling a story of startling cruelty . what a space it opens…
stylish , neatly constructed film about a maths genius who ' s sure he ' s close to discovering the key to everything and that hostile forces are watching .
cumberbatch stars as the esoteric outsider , a tortured genius - like character he has often played before in sherlock , the fifth estate and the forthcoming film black mass .
background : the made for television movie ,
code breakers ,
was based upon the book a return to glory . the documentary ,
faces of sports : brave old army team ,
contrary to prior statements , wasn ' t based upon the book but was researched and produced entirely separate and apart from the television movie , although late in the documentary production process i gave the production company a copy of the book .
the film was written by graham moore and is to be directed by the norwegian morten tyldum whose last production was the violent thriller headhunters , and produced by teddy schwarzmann .
mr schwarzmann said the film was a drama , not a piece of entertainment and added while they do not want to invent events , there are some ' creative liberties ' .
in june 1954 , he decided to imitate his favourite film , walt disney’s snow white - which he had watched seven times - and fatally bit into an apple coated with cyanide .
enigma hero turing played a key role in breaking the german enigma code during the second world war while working at bletchley park . he is credited with saving thousands of lives during the conflict .
chris hemsworth kicks off filming for the star - studded men in black spin - off as he cuts a sharp figure in london . . . 21 years after the first film hit screens
nearly a third of the imitation game takes place at the decryption facility at bletchley park , where turing , joan clarke ( keira knightly ) , and their fellow code - breakers worked tirelessly to decipher the german military ' s enigma code . most of the scenes set at bletchley were shot on soundstages—and surprisingly , the ones that weren ' t were the ones filmed at the bar where turing and his colleagues drank and socialized .
the beer hut was one of the most difficult locations , we struggled with that . and that ' s the one we ended up shooting in bletchley park ,
says production designer maria djurkovic .
we felt it was right to shoot something there .
list of maps abbreviations diagram of allied code - breaking units 1 . burn the codes and ciphers 2 . pioneer of the code breaker ' s craft 3 . special intelligence bureau 4 . the road to corregidor 5 . scramble to safety 6 . the turning of the tide 7 . midway 8 . central bureau 9 . the water transport code broken 10 . the admiral ' s itinerary 11 . buried treasure 12 . the front line and the back room 13 . a new world , a new enemy coding and decoding japan ' s military messages glossary of technical terms cast of characters acknowledgements notes bibliography index
enigma hero turing played a key role in breaking the german enigma code during the second world war while working at bletchley park ( pictured ) . he is credited with saving thousands of lives during the conflict
turing led the team at bletchley park that cracked the world war ii nazi enigma code , allowing the allies to anticipate every move the germans made . he is now widely recognised as a computing pioneer .
t uring led the team at bletchley park that cracked the world war ii nazi enigma code , allowing the allies to anticipate every move the germans made . he is now widely recognised as a computing pioneer .
a biography of the english mathematician alan turing , who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the enigma code , used by the germans . . . see full summary »
but a new american funded film about his life has been lambasted for exaggerating a love affair with a woman , played by keira knightley , and making a fictional connection to a notorious spy . turing was a well known homosexual .
o as portrayed in the movie , evidence strongly suggests football head coach earl h .
red
blaik , usma class of 1920 , was completely blind - sided by the cheating ring , which had found root on his nationally - ranked , much - admired football team , and the film accurately portrays him as stunned by his team ' s and his son ' s revelations to him , although the disclosures portrayed in the film didn ' t occur as shown .
t is implied in the film that menzies knew exactly what the spy john cairncross was up to at station x . an intelligent , spiky man , cairncross was described by his colleagues at bletchley park as
a bit of a loner
.
this is a documentary about unsung heroes of world war ii . in 1943 , a 24 - year - old maths student and a gpo engineer combined to hack into hitler ' s personal super - code machine - not enigma . . . see full summary »
o the film goes into considerable depth telling of the relationship between blaik and his son , which was only briefly and superficially covered in the book the producers didn ' t disclose whether or not they used other sources to delve into the relationship on screen .
some of them saw a clip from wakolda ( the german doctor ) on tv recently and really wanted to watch it . so i thought i’d take a chance , not expecting them to watch the whole film but the majority were absolutely gripped .
when good ( played by james northcote in the film ) mentioned his discovery to turing , the genius felt embarrassed , and said ,
i could have sworn that i tried that already .
it quickly became an important part of the banburismus procedure .
while the group is trying to decipher the daily enigma code , the wall clock strikes midnight setting off an alarm . in frustration , hugh throws all of the days work to the floor because the german military change the enigma code daily at midnight ( german time ) rendering the work useless . however , the work done could be completed ( as was often done ) in the early hours of the morning or at a later date - the information would not be as timely , but the intercepts and any work would be saved , not discarded .
hroughout the war , cairncross passed documents through secret channels to his kgb handlers , who gave him the code name liszt , because of his love of music . he smuggled the decrypts out of the hut in his trousers , transferring them to his bag at the railway station .
everyone has heard of turing now , and rightly so , but , as this film reminds us , he was part of an extraordinary team , some brilliant , others unprofessional , one treacherous . so who were they ? well , the second most important person at bletchley was hugh alexander .
opening credits prologue : hollywood , 1954 1 . the victorian irishman 2 . bluenoses against the screen 3 . hollywood shot to pieces 4 . the breen office 5 . decoding classical hollywood cinema 6 . confessional 7 . intermission at rko 8 . at war with the breen office 9 . in his sacerdotalism 10 .
our semitic brethren
11 . social problems , existential dilemmas , and outsized anatomies 12 . invasion of the art films 13 . amending the ten commandments 14 . not the breen office 15 . final cut : joseph i . breen and the auteur theory appendix : the production code notes film index index
we never wanted to see him commit suicide on screen ,
moore says .
this film was about paying attention to alan turing ' s tremendous life and his amazing accomplishments . it felt to us more ethical and more responsible to focus on his life and his accomplishments than the nitty - gritty of his suicide .
oprah winfrey , viola davis , octavia spencer and taraji p . henson are said to be all on the producer’s short list of actresses for starring roles in the film – the usual suspects ; although , quite frankly , i wouldn’t mind if an entirely unexpected group of black actresses were cast in this . give some fresh faces the opportunity . surprise me !
o nolan ' s roommate in the film , george holbrook , is portrayed as the wavering , eventually errant football player from a broken home , who had lived with his grandmother , and had nothing else in his life but west point and football . holbrook was in fact a fictitious character who represented a combination of several men in real life who participated in the cheating ring .
since so much of turing ' s work with british intelligence and mi6 was kept secret , moore went hunting for details about what turing did and what influence he had in the organization—with some surprising results .
the best evidence we have as to alan turing ' s work with mi6 after they ' d broken the code actually comes from the diary of ian fleming , which is so bizarre ,
moore says .
author margot lee shetterly ’s book , “hidden figures , ” which actually won’t be published until next year , via harpercollins , has been optioned for ted melfi to direct ( he’s the director of last year’s acclaimed dramedy “st . vincent , ” which starred bill murray , melissa mccarthy , and naomi watts . terrence howard played a supporting role in the film , which was melfi’s feature directorial debut ) .
nd so we come to our final unsung bletchley hero . jack good was a slender , good - humoured , bushy - moustached mathematician ( cambridge ) who worked closely with turing in hut 8 and was prone to having catnaps on the floor of the hut , especially after a long shift . this was just as well because he broke one vital code in his sleep , with the solution coming to him in a dream .
o contrary to the film ' s portrayal , no member of the football team was on the cadet honor committee . however , in point of fact two cadets who were among 25 cadet academic tutors for the football team were found guilty of cheating , and one of the two was found guilty of
false swearing ,
that is , lying under oath then later recanting previous testimony - twice falsely given .
first was the need to evenhandedly portray an important , unprecedented , complex , and potentially controversial event in history in just 90 minutes of screen time , not an easy task . second , because the real story was truly complex and potentially confusing to audiences unfamiliar with the military academy , its mission , methods of education and training , honor code and system , and intercollegiate athletic programs , the story had to be simplified while retaining both its integrity and dramatic impact . third , the producer made an extraordinary effort to recreate the era , make the film a
period piece ,
in which the events occurred , which required a great deal of detailed effort during a compressed filming schedule . fourth , holding to people and events just exactly as history was , would have resulted in a much larger cast , and an unacceptably large increase in budget .
i liked this urltoken ' s a movie about football , but it ' s much more than urltoken ' s really about honor , truth , and loyalty . it is set in 1950 , and chronicles the
army
- the west point football team . west point is the very esteemed military urltoken the movie begins ,
army is coming off of 27 consecutive wins and hope to win the championship once again . along the way , many on the team will go through some trials that will test their morality and pledge to uphold the principle of honor at any cost . the backdrop to the story is the korean war . i like the fact the the story has some depth to it . the very fine performances go along way in anchoring the story . scott glenn gives a nice understated , quietly intense performance as one of of the coaches . even though this is a morality tale , it doesn ' t hit you over the head , or preach to you . all in all a pretty good movie . for me
code breakers
is an 8 / 10
of course , cheating violates the military’s honor code , creating a moral dilemma for several of these young officers in training , among them blaik’s son bob ( corey sevier ) , both a gridiron star and a top student ; and roommates holbrook ( jeff roop ) and nolan ( zachery bryan ) . when one of them chooses to report the malfeasance , it threatens to rock the institution and trigger the dishonorable discharge of the co - conspirators .
is the first to feature the work of alan turing , the english mathematical genius and pioneer of artificial intelligence . the movie focuses on turing ' s attempts to break the secret of enigma while at the same time trying to conceal the secret of his sexual identity . however , the imitation game is very misleading - or downright inaccurate - about several key issues . turing and the team at bletchley was not the first to break the enigma code ;
o contrary to what coach blaik was told by several men on his football team , and he accepted at face value as the truth , then in fact and in the film repeated to the media in his 9 august 1951 press conference at mama leone ' s restaurant in new york city , not one single cadet was discharged because he
only knew about the cheating , and didn ' t cheat
or solely because he
told the truth .
the coach couldn ' t accept or believe the men who cheated hadn ' t told him the whole truth about their involvement , and under existing rules of evidence and the articles of war ( which were in transition to the uniform code of military justice at that time ) he could neither testify before the board because all his evidence would have been
hearsay ,
nor could he be given access to the board record .
after the war , good became a professor and worked as a consultant to stanley kubrick on the 1968 film 2001 : a space odyssey . he never guessed turing ' s sexual orientation in all the time they worked together , and neither did the bletchley park authorities .
otherwise ,
as good noted matter - of - factly ,
turing may have been driven to kill himself earlier , and we might have lost the war .
the one lament that i’m sure many of you will have is that this isn’t being made by black filmmakers ( the producer is white , as is the writer and the director ) . what more can i say that hasn’t already been said on that subject ? so it goes… let’s just hope that the film is true to author margot lee shetterly’s words , as well as the * forgotten * women she writes about in her book , and history .
this turned out not to be the case . after a period of clerical work with
the girls
, her mathematical gifts led to her becoming the only woman among a team of nine banburists . and according to her boss , alexander , she was
one of the best banburists in the section
. clarke wasn ' t as glamorous as keira knightley , who plays her in the film , but her character is captured well by the actress .
ironically , perhaps some of the most compelling testimony heard , albeit right at the end of the bartlett board ' s deliberations , from the man who possessed the most credible evidence and relevant institutional memory regarding weakened cadet support for the honor code and system in the years immediately following world war ii , was virtually ignored by the board . the board , by that time , was convinced . they had found both the underlying and proximate causes for the cheating incident of 1951 . overemphasis on ( winning ) football .
used complicated sets of rotors , to change the letters or combinations of letters in a message or document into what seemed to be randomly selected substitutes . the rotors produced billions of possible combinations for the original message . a recipient with another enigma machine used a key to unlock the code . during the 1920s and 1930s the german military transformed this commercial encoding device into an incredibly sophisticated encoding system to transmit top - secret orders and messages to german military units on land and sea . however , the germans were unaware that
this is a documentary about unsung heroes of world war ii . in 1943 , a 24 - year - old maths student and a gpo engineer combined to hack into hitler ' s personal super - code machine - not enigma but an even tougher system , which he called his ' secrets writer ' . their break turned the battle of kursk , powered the d - day landings and orchestrated the end of the conflict in europe . but it was also to be used during the cold war - which meant both men ' s achievements were hushed up and never officially recognized .
o in the film , brian nolan is portrayed as the only cadet involved in disclosing the existence of the cheating ring , reported his football player roommate , and then
following colonel harkins ' order to ' go under cover ' , joins the ring to verify the existence of the ring and obtain hard evidence against those found participating in cheating .
there was in fact a second cadet in company h - 2 , who was on the swimming team with nolan , and volunteered to join in the undercover investigation for the commandant , colonel paul d . harkins .
o as portrayed in the film , a number of cadets found guilty of cheating , did lie under oath the first time they appeared before the collins board , though the movie didn ' t say how many lied . the official investigation by a board of three army lieutenant colonels from the west point class of 1938 , all world war ii veterans , found 22 cadets lied under oath in their first appearance to give sworn testimony to the board , which later took the name of its president , ltc arthur s . collins , jr . some of the men found guilty repeatedly lied .
there they broke , and broke again , the german code named
enigma ,
which was thought to be unbreakable , and was used by the nazis to direct their submarine convoys in the north atlantic . enigma was decoded with the help of a machine , and the british had captured one , but the machine alone was not enough . my notes , scribbled in the dark , indicate the machine had 4 , 000 million trillion different positions - - a whole lot , anyway - - and the mathematicians and cryptologists at bletchley used educated guesses and primitive early computers to try to penetrate a message to the point where it could be tested on enigma .
during wwii , men and women working at bletchley park played a vital role , breaking the codes used by the german military . nine years later , former codebreaker susan is a housewife and mother , but she continues to recognize patterns that surround her in everyday life . when a series of women are brutally murdered around london , susan sees a pattern emerging . however , when a police - search for what susan believes to be an overlooked victim turns up nothing , she realizes she cannot solve this puzzle alone . enlisting three former bletchley park colleagues : millie , lucy , and jean ; susan knows they have little time to break this code before the killer strikes again .
nock ( rory kinnear ) , the officer who questions turing in the film , isn ' t entirely real . rather , moore says , he ' s meant to symbolize
the institutionalized homophobia of the day , to show that this wasn ' t some raving lunatic who arrested in persecuted alan turing .
and , to protect the cop who did interrogate the computer scientist , moore changed his name .
i made that decision very early on because the real police officer didn ' t die all that long ago and he still has family who are alive and i did not want to implicate the real person in that ,
he says .
kate winslett is impressive as a determined bletchley park team member dedicated to finding out what happened to a missing colleague and to help the object of her affections crack the german naval code . although her character is fictional , in fact women were a vital part of the park ' s work force . most were employed in administrative , transcriptive and secretarial functions , but some , like joan clarke and marion body , worked alongside alan turing and other top decoders . one of the administrative staff was valerie glassborow , the grandmother of kate , duchess of cambridge , who had a tedious job in hut 16 - she and others monitored british listening stations to see that they were sending in regular reports of german radio activity .
o clearly implied but not specifically , factually highlighted in the movie was the fact that third classmen ( sophomores ) involved in cheating in three cadet companies deliberately schemed to elect one of their group as company honor representatives . this occurred in three cadet companies , b - 1 , b - 2 , and k - 1 . the film dialog indicates the honor committee
was stacked ,
or
they ' ve compromised the honor committee .
the elections were in fact successful in two of the three cadet companies , b - 1 and b - 2 , which meant , had they not been found out , the honor committee would have indeed been compromised when the class of 1953 became the senior class .
the goal was to tell alan ' s story fairly and responsibly and accurately ,
moore says .
that meant that we sometimes had to dramatize things—or to take things that happened over a period of months and make them into a scene .
that also meant that multiple people , and the things they did , were condensed into a single person .
for example , the character that is called hugh alexander , who is played by matthew goode , he ' s a character that is half hugh alexander and half gordon welchman , another mathematician on the team ,
he says
we had to sort of use little tricks like that . but every major event in the film did occur .
o in the film , nolan goes to his father for advice on what to do before he reports his football player roommate , then over his father ' s objections reports him to the commandant . in real life , nolan was first asked by the commandant if he would go under cover , and colonel harkins explained why . nolan , who knew the serious implications of the matter , asked for permission to consult with his family , then called his uncle , a lawyer in new york city , and asked him to come to west point to visit . he wanted some advice . after his uncle recommended he accept the commandant ' s request , he then went to colonel harkins and agreed to press ahead with what became a six week undercover investigation .
o the other blatant use of intimidation , which wasn ' t portrayed in the film , involved two of the first few witnesses to appear before the collins board . one of them was the classmate nolan first reported , a member of the academy ' s fencing team . approximately twelve men in the ring called a meeting in a room in company a - 1 ' s first division of barracks , the evening of the first day ' s testimony . they demanded to know what the two men told the board , and also wanted to know what they had been asked during the proceedings , to help them prepare for their testimony - though the collins board had specifically instructed all witnesses not to discuss any aspect of the proceedings with anyone after their testimony .
the significance of the ' enigma machine ' , and the unlocking of its secrets by a team of cryptological and mathematical geniuses at the top secret english location of bletchley park remained unknown and unheralded for many years after the end of the war . in the last couple of decades , the general public has become aware of the crucial role that bletchley park ( and in particular the mathematician alan turing ) played in unravelling germany ' s military secrets and helping win the war . the main target of the bletchley team was not the german ' s original so - called ' enigma ' cipher but the more technologically sophisticated version code - named ' tunny ' by the british . many documentaries have been made about enigma , bletchley park and turing . yet despite the controversial conflicts , issues and personalities surrounding the topic , before 2014 ' s release of
for years computer science circles have hummed with speculation that the bitten - apple logo on mac products was a reference to turing ' s death . it ' s such an interesting tidbit the filmmakers almost mentioned it in the movie .
we debated putting that in text at the end of the film ; that was a lively debate for many months ,
moore says .
the debate was that this was this amazing story that there was this rumor and that steve jobs had publicly denied it many times but other people seemed to think it was true . … we would ' ve loved for it to be true . but we didn ' t have enough evidence to feel comfortable putting that in as text . personally , i think it might be true , but because we couldn ' t prove it , it was ethically tricky .
kate winslet is very good here , plucky , wearing sensible shoes , with the wrong haircut - - and then , seen in the right light , as a little proletarian sex bomb . she moves between dowdy and sexy so easily , it must mystify even her . claire , when she is seen , is portrayed by saffron burrows as the kind of woman any sensible man knows cannot be kept in his net - - which is why she attracts a masochistic romantic like tom jericho , who sets himself up for his own betrayal . if it is true ( and it is ) that
pearl harbor
is the story of how the japanese staged a sneak attack on an american love triangle , at least
enigma
is not about how the nazis devised their code to undermine a british love triangle . that is true not least because the british place puzzle - solving at least on a par with sex , and like to conduct their affairs while on ( not as a substitute for ) duty .
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in fact , in real life , neither of nolan ' s two roommates in company k - 1 were football players . the man he actually , eventually reported as pressing him to join
a group of cadets
involved in cheating was in fact a classmate - the member of the fencing team - and lived in another cadet room in nolan ' s company . the fencing team member was also the son of an academy graduate who was a brigadier general in the army ' s occupation forces in germany at the time , whereas in the film nolan is portrayed as the son of an academy graduate , with uncles who were also academy graduates . the real nolan was a recruited swimming team member , whose father wasn ' t career military or a graduate . the two roommates ( classmates ) of the man whom nolan reported were academy intercollegiate athletes . one was on the boxing team , the other a junior varsity football player , and was the football player who threatened nolan and was detained by the fbi .
fresh off
four minutes ,
espn returns to the 1950s and comes up with another winning pic . dealing with a cheating scandal that rocked west point and army ' s then - powerhouse football team , pic is a complex exploration of whistle - blowing , rule - bending and the anything - to - win mentality that remains prevalent today .
fresh off “four minutes , ” espn returns to the 1950s and comes up with another winning pic — one that possesses greater resonance in terms of modern college sports and double standards governing athletes . dealing with a cheating scandal that rocked west point and army’s then - powerhouse football team , pic is distinguished by a nifty period look , solid perfs throughout and complex exploration of whistle - blowing , rule - bending and the anything - to - win mentality that remains prevalent today .
“codebreakers” ( a terrible title that sounds more like a world war ii espionage thriller ) also features a born - to - play role for scott glenn as army’s snarling , grizzled football coach earl “red” blaik . his assistant was none other than vince lombardi ( richard zeppieri ) , who went on to gain fame coaching the green bay packers and is credited with the phrase , “winning isn’t everything ; it’s the only thing . ”
that determination to win , however , often comes at a price — in this case , an answer - passing system among members of the army team , who , in 1950 , were in the midst of a dominant winning streak . that success fueled an almost messianic zeal , with blaik insisting his charges don’t just represent west point : “we play for the american people . ”
yet as is so frequently true , the brawniest and swiftest on the field aren’t always the brainiest and swiftest in the classroom . so the players began assisting each other in an elaborate scheme , convinced the coaches either know what they’re up to or at least are willing to look the other way .
working from a script by g . ross parker , veteran episodic director rod holcomb brings a starched efficiency to the proceedings , including a particularly well - staged re - enactment of the army - navy game . in many respects , the movie is reminiscent of john sayles’ “eight men out , ” as even players reluctant to participate at first are drawn in by the apparent ease of a perilous situation that , as the younger blaik realizes , “is spreading too wide . ”
both the toronto locations and the fresh - faced cast lend period authenticity to the production , though at times it’s difficult to distinguish one young cadet from another . nevertheless , there are enduring themes here about the courage to resist peer pressure as well as viewing athletes as a privileged group to whom the usual rules don’t apply .
granted , espn’s forays into dramatic fare remain a little fuzzy strategically , especially with its drift toward less recognizable topics after more easily marketed ( but less appealing ) biopics of pete rose , dale earnhardt and bobby knight .
production : filmed in toronto by orly adelson prods . executive producer , adelson ; co - executive producer , jonathan eskenas ; producer , frank siracusa ; director , rod holcomb ; writer , g . ross parker , based on the book
a return to glory
by bill mcwilliams ;
crew : camera , thomas del ruth ; production design , james newport ; editor , michael brown ; music , anthony marinelli ; casting , junie lowry johnson , libby goldstein . running time : 120 min .
fresh off “four minutes , ” espn returns to the 1950s and comes up with another winning pic — one that possesses greater resonance in terms of modern college sports and double standards governing athletes . dealing with a cheating scandal that rocked west point and army’s then - powerhouse football team , pic is distinguished by a nifty period look , [ … ]
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the imitation game part 2 : the truth about turing and the bletchley ' bombe ' .
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alan turing did not invent the colossus machine , nor despite the claims of
the imitation game
, the
bombe
device featured so prominently in the movie and shown in the above scene .
the imitation game , the latest movie based on world war ii ' s enigma machine is the first to acknowledge alan turing ' s crucial role .
the enigma machine was originally a commercial german encoding apparatus developed after world war i . it resembled a typewriter , but
, had not only unlocked secrets of the enigma machine ' s encoding method . they had also made copies of the machine .
nor was turing ever blackmailed by a soviet spy working alongside turing ' s bletchley team .
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above centre , valerie glassborow , the duchess of cambridge ' s grandmother in her uniform . image at left shows the duchess operating a replica of a listening device at bletchley park ; image right shows her talking to lady marion body , one of the talented women cryptologists who worked at bletchley .
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the imitation game is based on a biography by andrew hodges , an oxford maths academic .
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