SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT Re: Fifty Dead Men Walking (626)

Having read ,rbur review of the frlrrr Fifty Dead Men Wa/k/ng I would lrke to set the record straight. It is already on public record that I disowned the frlrrr after watching the frrst cut wrth my lawyer in 2008 and seemed disclaimers at both the beginning and end of the frlm stating TlllS.

Your revrew did not make this clear. The impression giver: rs that the film rs an accurate portrayal of my life. In fact rt misrepresents my career and my motrvatron for working wrth Security Sen/ices. The mrstaken rinpres‘Sion given is that l was an IRA member or supporter who became a police agent despite disliking the British. In fact I was already an established Security Servrces agent for two years before making contact wrth the IRA.

If The List, its writers or readers would like to know the truth. then I would encourage them to read my book Fifty Dead Men Walking which tells a different and more accurate story than the rnovre of the same name. Martin McGartland By email

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Re: Daniel Depp - Loser's Town (Book review - 623) Sorry. but he rs a yen, poor writer '.'.'l‘o starts o.‘f ..e but Rises the plot halfway through His characterisatrr>n :tf .-.'on‘er‘ as a load of passwe. desperate lookers s s'tock rig Total geek". male Wish fulfilment. He wanders off track to g ze {the t" characters we don't care about it how ugly men can pull loads of hot women. Meanwhile the hero leaves the book ‘or too many pages and the plot loses total

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Re: For King and Country - King's Theatre, Edinburgh Very powerful portrayal of human reactions to war and the tensions between duty and humanity. Excellent and very convincrng performances and a well written play. Lorraine

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WORLD WIRE WEB Re: The Wire

80 at last those of us wrth council TV get to see what all you media trendies have been banging on ab0ut now the

BBC has got its finger out and started broadcasting The Wire.

So whose big idea was rt to show the series a) at a time when any working person is well on the way to bed and bl every srngle night of the week?

If this series is as good as as cracked up to be why don't they have the confidence to show it in a way that doesn't regurre viewers to rearrange their lives around rt'? Are they worried aboiit swearing or what? And don’t tell me ab0ut rPlayer not all

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Re: Jerry Sadowitz - King's Theatre, Glasgow Jew. was 'r door: tom‘ .12 fl‘fl org T'iere rs nowhere Jere, ‘ears to tread taller: rt «twws to what we ‘v'd'Olilt: stwl .tx‘m'lx cal: "jokes and I‘r’f; targets are ali-rncrusrxe

Jerr‘, 's ‘jokes' are unrepeatable in alrrrost arr. krnd of company He rielgtrts rn saying the unsayalrle and repeating it as often as possible, Soon, the incessant flow of powerfully delivered expletrves becomes a flow almost Without rmpact as they hit the eardrums so often Almost . . . Jerry makes sure there's always another even more taboo SUDIOCI to demolish lust when you're getting blase about the shockrng trrades you're hearing. And. rn l')etween all the endless rage and vrtrrol. you get a card trick that completely blows you away.

Quite unforgettable. And a bad. bad. bad man rrrdeed. Pictaker Glasgow Comment posted at Listcouk

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