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    Hollywood Breakdown

    Hollywood's Take on the bin Laden Killing

    Before the news of bin Laden's death, Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal, the Oscar-winning director and screenwriter of The Hurt Locker were already working on a movie based on the book Kill Bin Laden...

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    By Kim Masters • May 5, 2011 • 3m Listen

    Kim and John discuss Hollywood's take on the killing of Osama bin Laden. Before the announcement of bin Laden's death, Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter of The Hurt Locker, were already working on a movie based on the book Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man. Now there's talk of their scrambling to rewrite the ending and get it into production. In another part of Hollywood, documentary filmmaker Michael Moore has been tweeting about his take on bin Laden's demise, postulating that Pakistan had him there under house arrest.

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      Kim Masters

      partner/writer at Puck News, host of KCRW's “The Business.”

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