[Ads-l] disclaimer

[Jonathan Lighter]

'A notice, as at the beginning or end of a motion picture.'

Marlow Stern, at_The Daily Beast_, Sept. 6, 2014:

"The film... bears the disclaimer 'based on actual events.'"

http://www.thedailybeast.com/ethan-hawkes-good-kill-a-searing-indictment-of-americas-drone-warfare-obsession

I suppose that could be interpreted as a disavowal of the (correct)
assumption that the movie is mostly fiction, but it sounds more like an
endorsement of its level of truth.

JL

-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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