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Ryan Phillippe enlists for Iraq war drama
Fri Jun 9, 2006 5:52am ET
By Tatiana Siegel
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - After months of searching, "Boys Don't Cry" director Kimberly Peirce has found her leading man for the Iraq war drama "Stop-Loss."
Ryan Phillippe is in negotiations to star in the Paramount film, playing a soldier who returns home to Texas and is called to duty again in Iraq through the military's "stop-loss" procedure. The soldier then refuses to return to battle.
Abbie Cornish already has signed on to play the female lead. The studio is eyeing a late-summer start date.
Peirce has taken her time in finding the right project to follow up her feature directorial debut, 1999's "Boys Don't Cry." That film brought Hilary Swank her first best actress Oscar as well as a nomination for co-star Chloe Sevigny.
Phillippe, who co-starred in last year's Oscar-winning best picture "Crash," next appears in Clint Eastwood's WWII drama "Flags of Our Father" and in "Breach," opposite Chris Cooper.
source: http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyid=2006-06-09T095243Z_01_N09413779_RTRUKOC_0_US-STOPLOSS.xml&src=rss&rpc=22
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Anybody remember Audie Murphy on the Brownwood Movie Screens ?
Post war illness
Sadly, Murphy suffered from Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after his return from the war. He was plagued by insomnia, bouts of depression, and nightmares related to his countless bloody battles. His first wife, Wanda Hendrix, often talked of his struggle with this condition, even claiming that he had at one time held her at gunpoint. For a time during the mid-1960s, Murphy became dependent on doctor-prescribed sleeping pills called Placidyl. When he recognized that he had become addicted to the drug, he locked himself in a motel room, where he forced himself to stop taking the pills, and went through withdrawal symptoms for a week.
Always an advocate of the needs of America's military veterans, Murphy eventually broke the taboo about publicly discussing war-related mental conditions. In an effort to draw attention to the problems of returning Korean and Vietnam War veterans, Murphy spoke out candidly about his own problems with PTSD, known during World War II as "Battle fatigue" and commonly known as "Shell Shock". He called on the United States government to give increased consideration and study to the emotional impact that combat experiences have on veterans, and to extend health care benefits to address PTSD and the other mental health problems of returning war veterans.
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