Why hasn’t Hollywood done a movie about the attack on the USS Liberty?

Here is a article mentioning an epsiode of an effort to look into the possibility of filming a movie about the USS Liberty attack and aftermath.  The results  were predictable.  This post is only a truncated version of a larger article on Hollywood film making and covers only the USS Liberty.  It has been speculated that the actor in question mentioned was Richard Gere, whether true or not I have never found any confirmation of this. -jd

HOLLYWOOD and ISRAEL

By Mark Bruzonsky*  LINK to the complete article

“Don’t even mention this again.  If you even try to go ahead with this you will never work in Hollywood again”

In the 1980s a famous movie actor got interested in the story of what happened to the U.S.S. Liberty in 1967.   He investigated a bit, held a few meetings with survivors, and went to top-level friends in Hollywood to try to get a movie made, himself possibly staring as the Liberty Captain.    He not only failed.  He was very explicitly warned by the powers that be:  “Don’t even mention this again.  If you even try to go ahead with this you will never work in Hollywood again.”

* The author Mark Bruzonsky was Washington Representative of the World Jewish Congress for eight years soon after he first came to Washington. This article was posted on 25 February 2004 @

http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=893&month=2&year=2004&function=text&standalone=1