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Clint Eastwood slammed over "shocking"and "untrue"portrayal
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[Dhaka Tribune] Oscar-winning director Clint Eastwood was at the centre of a firestorm Thursday over his latest movie depicting a news hound trading sex for stories -- prompting legal threats over the "shocking" and "untrue" portrayal from her real-life newspaper.Richard Jewell dramatizes the story of the innocent man who found himself targeted in a devastating media frenzy following a deadly blast at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
Jewell was initially hailed as a hero after he spotted the pipe bomb but was soon identified by journalists including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Kathy Scruggs as an FBI suspect.
Scruggs, portrayed by Olivia Wilde, is depicted in the movie trading sex with an FBI agent in exchange for learning the suspect's identity.
"The portrayal of our news hound is shocking, untrue and an obvious Hollywood trope," editor Kevin G Riley told AFP.
"The film commits the very sin that it purports to accuse the media of. It literally makes things up in telling the story."
Never arrested or charged, Jewell was cleared by the FBI after 88 days. But TV networks camped outside his home for the duration, hounding Jewell, who became the subject of wild speculation and ridicule.
Cox Enterprises, the newspaper's owner, on Monday sent a letter to Eastwood and Warner Bros demanding it release a public statement stating "some events were imagined for dramatic purposes."
The letter says the paper and its staff are "portrayed in a false and defamatory manner."
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