Real Victim of 'Wolf of Wall
Street' Lands Book Deal
by Breitbart News 4 Feb 2014, 4:07 PM PDT
Even critics who applauded director Martin
Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street admitted the film paid little to no
attention to those "bitten" by the titular wolf.
That prompted an impassioned op-ed by
Christina McDowell, a woman whose life was impacted by the real wolf, Jordan Belfort.
That piece in LA Weekly helped score a memoir deal for McDowell from a major
book publisher, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The Simon & Schuster imprint is
pitching it as "a classic father/daughter story and a cautionary, yet
ultimately positive, tale of starting over" that shows the
"consequences not just for one family, but for society as a whole."
McDowell's story, the publisher says, is a "younger, more innocent,
true-life version of Woody Allen's
recent hit film, Blue Jasmine."
McDowell's father, Tom Prousalis, got jail
time for his connection to Belfort.
Her op-ed name checked both Scorsese and star Leonardo
DiCaprio for not giving Belfort's
victims their rightful close-up.
Did you think about the cultural message
you'd be sending when you decided to make this film? You have successfully
aligned yourself with an accomplished criminal, a guy who still hasn't made
full restitution to his victims, exacerbating our national obsession with
wealth and status and glorifying greed and psychopathic behavior.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo
DiCaprio is an actor in The Wolf of Wall Street
(2013), a trustee at the Natural Resources Defense
Council, and a board member for the Global Green
USA.
Note: Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Natural
Resources Defense Council, the Sundance Institute,
and People for the American Way.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open
Society.
Robert
Redford is a trustee at the Natural Resources Defense
Council, the founder & president for the Sundance
Institute, and an honorary board member for Green Cross
International.
Mikhail
Gorbachev is the founder for Green Cross International,
and was the general secretary for the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union.
Global
Green USA is a US
affiliate for Green Cross International.
Norman Lear
is a council of advisors member for Global Green USA,
and a director at People for the American
Way.
Salon.com Defends Communism--Mass
Murders and All (Past Research for Global Green USA)
Monday, February 3, 2014
Alec Baldwin
is a director at People for the American Way, and
an actor in Blue Jasmine.
Woody Allen, Cate Blanchett, And
Alec Baldwin Respond After Being Called Out In Dylan Farrow Allegations
Business InsiderBy Aly Weisman | Business Insider – Mon, Feb 3, 2014
6:29 PM EST
What if it had been your child, Cate
Blanchett? Louis CK? Alec Baldwin? What if it had been you, Emma Stone?
Or you, Scarlett Johansson? You knew me when I was a little girl, Diane Keaton.
Have you forgotten me?
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