“Kathy was a wild child,” said friend and former coworker Tony Kiss. Typed comments will be lost if you are not logged in. Decades later, how Scruggs is portrayed as a journalist is at the center of controversy that surrounds the film "Richard Jewell." Perhaps that was the kernel that empowered the dramatic license that became part of the scripted narrative? No one was saying, specifically.While Scruggs’ counsel objects to the line of questioning, the reporter answers that the relationship “ended in ’93 or ’94” well before the Olympic bombing. Longtime NBC anchor Tom Brokaw issued an apology to Richard Jewell, the security guard who saved lives in the aftermath of the 1996 Atlanta, Georgia, bombing and later became a prime suspect. Scruggs answers, “I am sure there are.”Deadline reached Wood, who said he was never approached by anyone connected to the Eastwood film in their preparation. You have to stop thinking about the FBI and the media as institutions. But she was a good reporter. "Richard Jewell entering press conference followed by his lawyer Watson Bryant.

That would be an appalling and misogynistic dismissal of the difficult work she did. "You always knew when Kathy was in the room," said her former colleague John Gouch. In the upcoming fictional film “Richard Jewell,” based on the true events surrounding the 1996 Summer Olympics bombing in Atlanta, there are a lot of real-life people depicted unfavorably, including, most distressingly to some, journalist Kathy Scruggs. You will be redirected back to your article in What is whispered into Wilde’s ear by Hamm in the movie “was actually a long complicated conversation” from multiple sources that Scruggs pieced together from various pieces of intel,” Roughton said.“We held the story for a day or so to do a pretty tough verification; there’s no way in the process that she managed to have sex with a source,” said Roughton, who worked closely with Scruggs for more than a year.“She heard Richard was a suspect before she talked to a primary source. She was really tough and hard-nosed. "The Georgia Court of Appeals dismissed the Jewell case against the AJC in 2011.Paul Walter Hauser (center) stars in "Richard Jewell.

She hated being lied to or used. Editor's Picks However, Shaw was not a real person. We further demand that you add a prominent disclaimer to the film to that effect. "We never made such a false & damning claim." I keep thinking, ‘I’m not going to go watch it,’ but then the cast is so damn good and this story is a good story,” said King. He received an Oscar nomination for his adaptation of Richard Phillip and Stephen Talty’s book Riley said he objects primarily to what he called falsehoods about Scruggs, who isn’t around to defend her honor. Paul Walter Hauser (as Richard Jewell), Sam Rockwell (as lawyer Watson Bryant) and director Clint Eastwood on the set of "Richard Jewell." July 24, 2020, 10:38 a.m. Like his deeply flawed coverage of the 1996 Olympic bombing, Tom Brokaw’s so-called apology this week to the late Richard Jewell leaves much … "Nothing in my research suggested she did so, and it was never my intention to suggest she had. While he has not seen the movie, Wood said: “I do not recall any testimony or evidence that supports the specific storyline as you described it…I have no evidence to suggest that those rumors were true or that she ever engaged in any sexual act in exchange for information or tips, and I never made or asserted such a damning and unprovable claim,” said the attorney. “I probably will wind up watching it.

"The court found that what Kathy reported was true at the time she reported it," Kiss said. "She was upset, and she sort of implied to the bar owner she could put him in the newspaper," Kiss said. Close. "It's heartbreaking to think that the only thing some people will ever hear about Kathy is how she is portrayed in that movie.

Later on in the deposition (on pages 370-371), Wood questions Scruggs how her reputation would stack up if she was the focus of an investigation like Jewell had been. But she was always a good reporter with a tremendous work ethic, said Gouch and Kiss. While there were a number of bad actors — this includes journalists — who did considerable damage to Richard Jewell's reputation, I've not seen where Kathy Scruggs' reporting went beyond the facts. "He called the paper, and the editor told her she needed to apologize. “The AJC’s reporter is reduced to a sex-trading object in the film,” the letter says, according to the newspaper. editor. July 28, 2020, 2:07 p.m.