Tag: Joanne Herring

  • Remember Charlie Wilson’s War?

    So rollicking was the back-story of the end of the Soviet Union’s ten-year war in Afghanistan that Hollywood made a movie about it.  Charlie Wilson’s War (2003) starred Tom Hanks as a raffish, bibulous Texas Congressman in need of an issue in 1980, after a narrow escape from a Rudy Giuliani-led investigation of reported cocaine…