Cover-Up review – atrocity exposer Seymour Hersh, journalist legend, gets a moment in the spotlight

Hersh’s record on uncovering the big stories, from My Lai to Abu Ghraib, speaks for itself. This documentary watches him at work: dogged, nonconformist and combative Renowned investigative journalist Seymour Hersh was never played in a film by Robert Redford or Dustin Hoffman, like the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. But as this documentary portrait argues, he’s probably more important than either. Hersh has a longer record of breaking big stories, from the My Lai massacre in Vietnam to torture by US army personnel at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq – the latter a historic scoop underscored by the stomach-turning photos which Hersh brought to light. Hersh is asked if Abu Ghraib would have been the story it was without those pictures and replies: “No pictures, no story.” Well, maybe. But his other scoops had no pictures of this kind. One incidental thing Abu Ghraib showed was how ubiquitous digital photography became at the beginning of the century; how easy it was to take...

In Preparation For Her Ninth Birthday, Carmen Baldwin Wore Cosmetics And Her Mother’s Sparkly Boots

The eldest child of Alec and Hilaria Baldwin looked fierce in these Instagram pictures posted on her mother's Stories on Sunday, flaunting winged black eyeliner and dark red lipstick after "raid[ing]" Hilaria's shoe closet. "Starting the bday celebrations two days early," said her ecstatic mother, who is expecting her seventh child, a girl, and posted a picture of her and her husband, Alex, eating outside with their daughter. Another image shows Carmen, whose 9th birthday was today, wearing a black sweatsuit with the words "Just be great" written on it and a pair of shiny pink and blue peep-toe boots. Hilaria, 38, posted a third picture of Carmen standing on one leg and delivering a sassy kick as she takes the soled shoe to her Story with the caption, "She raided my shoe closet." The "What's One More" podcast presenter joked, "This is her favorite posture," while writing on her Instagram Story that Carmen "made a shoe change and misplaced one of the press-on nails in my wardrobe." We jokingly said that we would find it in around ten years. The Baldwins have five more kids in addition to Carmen: Rafael, 7; Leonardo, 5; Romeo, 4; Eduardo, 1, and Mara Luca, also 1, who was conceived through surrogacy and was delivered six months after Eduardo. The couple's seventh child, a daughter, is presently growing inside Hilaria, and she is due later this year. Ireland Baldwin, 26, is the son of Alec, 64, and his ex-wife Kim Basinger. The "It's Complicated" star has openly expressed his love for his huge family on Instagram and gives his wife credit for helping him get through the aftermath of his on-set "Rust" shooting. In a video from July showing the couple's two youngest children dressed as puppies as Hilaria gave them bottles, he wrote, "People are commenting on how many children we have and ask why. He said, "This is why." "These folks are the thing in this world that matters most to me."

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