Friday, January 20, 2012

Red tails

  • It took George Lucas more than two decades to bring the movie Red Tails to the screen.
  • (NPR News)
  • First-time actress Gina Carano was plucked straight from the mixed martial arts world by director Steven Soderbergh, who happened upon one of Carano's fights while channel surfing and was so impressed that he decided to build a film around her.
  • (Wall Street Journal)
  • Some area members of the Tuskegee Airmen are expected to be at an event at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 28 at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center downtown.
  • (Cincinnati.com)
  • Against the great odds of pervasive bigotry, a group of black pilots from the Tuskegee training program flew in World War II, shooting down German planes, bombing trains and trucks and even taking out a destroyer.
  • (Time)
  • HUNTSVILLE, Alabama _ Alabamas aerospace roots extend far beyond Huntsvilles storied space work with NASA. Among the other aviation milestones in Alabama, three are particularly worth noting.
  • (Everything Alabama Blog)
  • WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) – When the new movie Red Tails opens in theater across the nation this weekend, Wilmington movie-goers will have reason to watch it with pride. The young man who directed the film is from Wilmington.
  • (WECT)
  • Decades in the making, Red Tails — Lucasfilm's reverential biopic of the first African-American military aviators in U.S. history — finally lands in theaters Friday.
  • (Wired News)
  • ARLINGTON, Va. — On the same day that retired Air Force Lt. Col. Luke Weathers Jr. took his resting place among other war and military heroes, his real-life story as a World War II aviator played out on movie screens across the country.
  • (New York Daily News)
  • They fought racism while fighting for their country and now their battles on both fronts are coming to the big screen.
  • (Orlando Sentinel)

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