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John Mulholland - Writer Director Film Historian 

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Director John Mulholland Shares What Drives 'Cooper & Hemingway: The True Gen' Documentary

Thoughts on films, television series, and other cool stuff.

 Director John Mulholland Shares What Drives 'Cooper & Hemingway: The True Gen' Documentary   Director John Mulholland Shares What Drives 'Cooper & Hemingway: The True Gen' Documentary

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Filmmaker John Mulholland Explores the Little-Known Relationship Between Gary Cooper and Ernest Hemingway

John Mulholland knows a thing or two about making documentaries. Coming up in the eighties with the Arts Network, John learned from some of the best filmmakers around, and has since been using his skills and interests to create his own

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Interview with director John Mulholland

Cooper and Hemingway interview with John Mulholland

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Screening of Cooper & Hemingway: The True Gen written and directed by John Mulholland at Virginia Tech

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Tinker, tailor, soldier... illusionist? When the CIA tried its hand at magic..

By Tom Scocca for Boston.com .. 

“The instant the performer sees the spectator take a cigarette, cigar, or pipe, he takes the packet of matches from his pocket, tears off one match, and holds packet and match ready to ignite the match,” the magician John Mulholland wrote in a manual in the 1950s. “He does these things openly because what he does can only be looked upon as a friendly and courteous gesture.”

Mulholland’s instructions were written not for stage magicians, but for the covert operatives of the CIA. At the height of the Cold War - in the era of nuclear missiles and submarines, amid the tangled cloak-and-dagger maneuverings of espionage and counterespionage - the agency was also secretly doing something else. It was trying to learn to do magic...

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