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Ron Howard set to direct Barry Seal biopic
Posted on 2/21/14 at 10:35 am
Posted on 2/21/14 at 10:35 am
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Posted on 2/21/14 at 10:37 am to Jim Rockford
Never realized Seals first name was Barry.
Posted on 2/21/14 at 10:45 am to Jim Rockford
Interesting.
Posted on 2/21/14 at 10:49 am to Jim Rockford
You notice they waited until Fighting Frank passed away before they did this, though, right?
Posted on 2/21/14 at 11:14 am to Jim Rockford
Didn't Dennis Hopper play Barry Seal in a movie in the 90s
This post was edited on 2/21/14 at 11:16 am
Posted on 2/21/14 at 11:41 am to jojothetireguy
Think that was a TV movie.
Posted on 2/21/14 at 1:47 pm to Ace Midnight
Who is Fighting Frank?
Posted on 2/21/14 at 1:48 pm to Jim Rockford
Dated his granddaughter. She was a freak in the sheets and kind of crazy outside of them.
I know. csb
I know. csb
Posted on 2/21/14 at 1:48 pm to TreyAnastasio
If your name was Adler Berriman Seal, you'd probably go by "Barry" too.
Posted on 2/21/14 at 2:09 pm to White Roach
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Who is Fighting Frank?
+1.
I've always found the Barry Seal stuff interesting. Look forward to the movie.
Posted on 2/21/14 at 2:39 pm to White Roach
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Who is Fighting Frank?
Frank Polozola, the former U.S. District Judge. Among other things, he ran the Louisiana penal system under a civil rights order - for years. He was a cranky old bastard, too.
Anyway, he sentenced Seal to the halfway house, no weapon, and no bodyguard. This was after he was cooperating with authorities - effectively signing Seal's death warrant, which happened during Seal's service of his "house arrest" sentence. Polozola was blamed by many for his death and the loss of the information he was, apparently, willing to provide.
Polozola died last year.
There are many, many intriguing facets to the Barry Seal story - his Civil Air Patrol stuff with David Ferrie and Lee Harvey Oswald, smuggling weapons to the Cuban rebels, involvement with the CIA - all that crazy shite he did BEFORE he became one of the biggest drug smugglers in the U.S.
His wife says he flew one of the getaway planes out of Dallas on November 22, 1963. Maybe she was selling a book - maybe it was the truth, but with his background, you cannot say it is impossible.
It can be an entertaining movie, even if there is little to no factual basis for some of this. Look at JFK and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.
This post was edited on 2/21/14 at 2:41 pm
Posted on 2/21/14 at 2:59 pm to Jim Rockford
I was in the first movie about Seal back in 1991. They filmed all of the courthouse scenes at the 24th JDC in Jefferson Parish and I played the part of one of the criminal attorneys (I was an ADA at the time). The scenes at the FBI office were shot in the vacant bank building on the corner of Clearview parkway and Veterans (I think it's a storage building now). Got to meet Barry Seal's widow who was a technical advisor for the movie (not nearly as attractive as Adrienne Barbeau...for sure).
Couldn't keep my eyes off of Adrienne Barbeau. She looked better in person than in the movies!!!
Couldn't keep my eyes off of Adrienne Barbeau. She looked better in person than in the movies!!!
Posted on 2/21/14 at 4:17 pm to TreyAnastasio
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Never realized Seals first name was Barry.
Because it's not it's Adler
Posted on 2/21/14 at 5:12 pm to adono
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Couldn't keep my eyes off of Adrienne Barbeau. She looked better in person than in the movies!!!
Jealous.
Was she a nice person? (Besides being hot.)
Posted on 2/21/14 at 8:24 pm to jojothetireguy
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Didn't Dennis Hopper play Barry Seal in a movie in the 90s
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It was on HBO. I think it was the fist movie HBO produced. Some of the scene's of Seal's neighborhood were shot in Chateu CC
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Didn't Dennis Hopper play Barry Seal in a movie in the 90s
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It was on HBO. I think it was the fist movie HBO produced. Some of the scene's of Seal's neighborhood were shot in Chateu CC
Posted on 2/21/14 at 9:01 pm to adono
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Couldn't keep my eyes off of Adrienne Barbeau.
Sounds about right
Posted on 2/21/14 at 9:11 pm to Ace Midnight
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Frank Polozola,
With all due respect to the federal judiciary and the dear departed . . . frick Polozola with a rake. A corrupt, disgrace of a U.S. District judge . . . imho (and I say that from personal experience).
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