May 6, 2018 · He said he had been urged to lie by prosecutors, among them Roy Cohn, later a key aide to anti-communism crusader Joseph McCarthy. To some he came to be seen as a symbol of betrayal. In the 1989 Woody Allen movie Crimes and Misdemeanors, Allen’s character says of his smug and annoying brother-in-law: “I love him like a brother — David ...

May 4, 2021 · The sad thing is that this is not a joke comment, this is actually what the statement is inferring. I actually did a paper on Roy Cohn in college when I was studying American politics and I remember my professor saying that I was the only one who had ever chosen "That fucking guy" as a research topic before.

Apr 6, 2024 · Roy Cohn was Trump’s lawyer and mentor who had a significant influence on the course of his life. He was a fixer who taught Trump how to get away with breaking laws. Early in his career he was the chief counsel of Joseph McCarthy and was in charge of the anti-communist and anti-gay investigations.

I've thought Jeremy was too hot to play Cohn since first hearing the news but jesus, the makeup department really did some subtle wonders. I know he's going to absolutely kill this role, especially since he's such a big Pacino fan (also funny to remember there's another Succ connection in that Justin Kirk was one of the leads in Angels in ...

Oct 25, 2021 · According to the memoirs of Bonanno, one of Cohn's notorious mob clients, Cohn was blackmailing Hoover for being a gay crossdresser. (True or not, they evidently remained "friends" and partners in crime.) Roy also had ties of a still-unknown nature to the equally closeted archbishop of New York, Francis Cardinal Spellman.

Mar 12, 2018 · James Woods really nailed Roy Cohn in Citizen Cohn. Great movie, highly recommend it. I had a dream about James Woods last night. We were talking about everything but politics. It was pleasant. We were eating Twizzlers. I have no idea what this means.

May 27, 2024 · One of Roy Cohn's major controversies was his involvement in the Lavender Scare of the 1950s. For those unfamiliar with the Lavender Scare, it was a policy against the gay community, claiming that those who identified as a homosexual were potential threats in government positions because they were allegedly more susceptible to being scammed out ...

Aug 7, 2023 · Roy Cohn was an absolute monster IRL, and Kushner does a great job of humanizing him without taking away from the horrors of his actions. The first version I saw was the Garfield/Lane revival from a few years back and from the Octopus Aria on, I was spellbound.

Roy Cohn died poor and alone. When the time comes, I hope Trump follows in his mentor’s footsteps. ...

Roy Cohn's relationship with Shien mirrored his later relationship with a young Donal Trump. Like Shien he was the scion of a very rich family who longed to be important and famous. Cohn liked to be around young rich, tall blonde men. Whether Shien or Trump considered the relationship to be sexual it definitely had a sexual dimension on Cohn's ...