Articles by Richard Schickel
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‘J. Edgar’: Hoover’s Hubris Writ Large
Richard Schickel - Trughdig,
14 Nov 2011
Even by Clint Eastwood’s austere standards, “J. Edgar” is a very plain movie. It simply tells the story of J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation—or America’s “top cop” from 1924 until his death in 1972. There were, of course, oddities about him, notably his sexuality. He lived in an era when “perpetual bachelorhood” was not an automatic signal of covert homosexuality. The idea that a highly placed public figure might be gay was simply not thought about.
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