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Good Night, and Good Luck.
2005 · Film · 93 min
Directed by George Clooney
The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.
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There are a few (all are based on true story):
- Moneyball
- Good Night, and Good Luck
- Kinky Boots
- Telstar: The Joe Meek Story
- Ek Doctor Ki Maut (a hindi-language movie based on actual events, chronicling the sad state of Indian research scientists in government institutions; the movie is based on the life of an Indian doctor from Kolkata who developed a vaccine for leprosy. The doctor committed suicide, but the movie has changed that)
For me rather the film Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), we are going through the McCarty years again.
Interesting. It seems the only way to get a movie made that's not a studio-originating project, with people who _you_ want to work with, is 1) get your own financing (like DiCaprio schmoozing the 1MDB guy to fund Wolf of Wall Street), or 2) play tit-for-tat with something the studio really wants to make (like George Clooney giving them Ocean's 12 in exchange for them funding his Good Night, and Good Luck).
Aren't they shutting down the analog TV network in the US and re-using the spectrum elsewhere, per the rest of the world? And aren't most networks happy with more channels and more chances to grab ad-revenue? Surely that would spurn the adoption of HD more than a particular competitor being first of the boat.
But I have heard of Good Night, and Good Luck, and perhaps the other film, if you mean the Enron documentary (The Smartest Guys in the Room). Those, and reinventing a sports team would be achievements of which I would be very proud.
HD Net was the first all high definition television network, and is what helped spur all the mainstream networks (due to competition and audience response) to go HD. Cuban was on the HD bandwagon when it was empty. Haha he certainly didn't invent the Mavericks, but he completely transformed them & more importantly, made them a contender - much to the admiration of hundreds of thousands of Dallas Mavericks fans.
MicroSolutions was bought by CompuServe who you may or may not be familiar with. Have you heard the movies titled: The Smartest Guys in The Room or Good Night, and Good Luck? He was behind them.
I certainly get what you're saying, it's just that sometimes Cuban is wrongly portrayed as a one-trick pony. Also of note, I had never heard of lastminute.com until today. And even if i had, I doubt I'd know the person behind it.
i can't believe i've gotten to the bottom of this thread, and no one has mentioned this.
first of all, you can't look at kiva.org and tell me that software can't make a difference in the world.
second of all...
- measured in dollars, the bill+melinda gates foundation is the biggest charitable organization in the country, by an order of magnitude. they give more to fight aids in africa than any country does, i believe.
- this is, in part, thanks to warren buffett, who gave away 85% of his fortune to charity.
- pierre omidyar, the founder of ebay, now runs omidyar network, an investment firm which specifically funds opportunities based on their potential for social good. portfolio: http://www.omidyar.net/portfolio.php
- jeff skoll, the original president of ebay, founded participant productions, which aims to educate through entertainment. it's the company that produced syriana, good night, and good luck, and an inconvenient truth, among other films. http://www.participantproductions.com/
- speaking of ebay, that site has enabled over a million people to quit their jobs and make a living pursuing their passions.
- someone in the comments mentioned aubrey de grey, who's doing research to cure aging. guess who's funding it? peter thiel, founder of paypal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel
there are probably hundreds of other examples of people who did well by society and then gave back. (in fact, i'd love to hear these stories if you know any offhand.)
Shooter, if you've already gotten past the first part -- doing well by society -- there are plenty of ways to give back to society that would be far more effective than going to med school. PG's doing it in his own way, but if you've got something else in mind, maybe you should talk to some of those other folks for inspiration. my understanding is that bill gates assembled a small group of really smart people and asked them to make a short list of major problems in the world that could be solved with money.