Jon Ronson

As even Jon Ronson himself has acknowledged in his book, The Men Who Stare at Goats, I played a major role in unearthing its extraordinary story. Why then, as Ive been asking in the British national press, have I received neither credit nor...

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...and a pair of old Converse - the laces of which get repeatedly tied and untied throughout the interview - is 42-year-old Welsh author Jon Ronson. On the table, within reach, sits a bottle of extra-strength Advil. The need for a pain reliever...

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WRITER and journalist Jon Ronson must have been thrilled when he learned that George Clooney and Ewan McGregor were to be cast in a film inspired by his book, 'The Men Who Stare at Goats'. But, in advance of the nationwide premiere of the...

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...Goats (15, 93 mins) George Clooney adds to his ever-expanding repertoire of hilarious misfits in this film based on Cardiff writer Jon Ronson's novel about US servicemen who are trained to become Jedi warriors, capable of killing the enemy...

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The Men Who Stare at Goats centres on the US army's attempt to train men to stare live goats to death. Here are five eyeball encounters of a different, though no less fatal in some cases, kind You trying to out-stare me? Gary Cooper in...

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...saw it maybe once a month when I was young. It was like my version of going to synagogue, although a lot funnier and less boring Jon Ronson, whose book The Men Who Stare at Goats is now a George Clooney and Kevin Spacey-starring movie and...

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...system fails him. "Men Who Stare at Goats" Overture) Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges star in this film based on Jon Ronson's satiric novel about a reporter who stumbles across a soldier who claims to be a veteran of a U.S. Army...

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Jon Ronson's accidental career has led him to a posh hotel in Venice with George Clooney, he told Aine O'Connor Writer Jon Ronson has fallen into all kinds of things. From being cast in a small role in his local theatre in Cardiff, to...

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