{"id":116,"date":"2004-03-30T14:06:29","date_gmt":"2004-03-30T21:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/03\/30\/the_mob_the_fbi_and_project_x.html"},"modified":"2004-03-30T14:06:29","modified_gmt":"2004-03-30T21:06:29","slug":"the_mob_the_fbi_and_project_x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/03\/30\/the_mob_the_fbi_and_project_x.html","title":{"rendered":"The Mob, the FBI, and Project X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my weekly round-up of new trailers on Apple&#8217;s <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\">Trailers<\/A> site, I watched a preview for the new Matthew Broderick film <I><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/touchstone\/the_last_shot.html\">The Last Shot<\/A><\/I>.  As soon as I started watching it, I rembered where I&#8217;d heard the story before: <I>This American Life<\/I>.  In the mis-named and otherwise somewhat underwhelming 2003 episode &#8220;<a title=\"This American Life | MacGyver\" href=\"http:\/\/207.70.82.73\/pages\/descriptions\/03\/244.html\">MacGyver<\/a>,&#8221; GQ writer Elizabeth Gilbert tells the story of an FBI-financed movie production, used as a front for a sting operation on the Boston mob, that almost ended up producing an actual movie.  If Bebe Neuwirth and John Lithgow audition, that&#8217;s almost a real movie, however unappealing it sounds, right?  Who knows how the Broderick\/Alec Baldwin\/Tony Shalhoub movie based on this faux-movie will turn out, but give a listen to the TAL story.  It&#8217;s really fascinating, and gives some good background on the now nearly dormant Boston big-budget filmmaking scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my weekly round-up of new trailers on Apple&#8217;s Trailers site, I watched a preview for the new Matthew Broderick film The Last Shot. As soon as I started watching it, I rembered where I&#8217;d heard the story before: This American Life. In the mis-named and otherwise somewhat underwhelming 2003 episode &#8220;MacGyver,&#8221; GQ writer Elizabeth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}