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Nancy Pelosi’s career chronicled in new film by her daughter

By MICHAEL BALSAMO the defense secretary, at-
Associated Press torney general, then-Vice
NEW YORK (AP) — For Al- President Mike Pence and
exandra Pelosi, the brutal other officials trying to get
attack on her father earlier assistance to the Capitol.
this year was a culmina- Some of the footage was
tion of vitriol that had been played during a hearing of
building for decades. Her the House panel investigat-
family’s name, she says, ing the attack on the Capi-
has been weaponized for tol.
years, turned into a curse Alexandra Pelosi and her
word for Republicans. team provided the foot-
Then, in October, a man age to the committee.
broke into the family’s San “When they took Nancy Pe-
Francisco home and at- losi out of the chamber, she
tacked Paul Pelosi with a didn’t even get to take her
hammer, leaving him un- cellphone. They rushed her
conscious in a pool of his out. And she was making
own blood. calls to the defense secre-
The bubbling political rhet- tary, the attorney general,
oric that led to that mo- the vice president, and I
ment is chronicled in a new thought there should be a
documentary premiering record of this,” Alexandra
Tuesday night on HBO. The Pelosi said. “She didn’t get
film, “Pelosi in the House,” Filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi, left, and Nancy Pelosi, right, attend “Tony Bennett Celebrates 90: The to take the House clerk,
directed and produced Best Is Yet to Come” in New York on Sept. 15, 2016. who has a transcript of all
by Alexandra Pelosi, the Associated Press this, to record what was
youngest of House Speaker presidential win. mother, literally, through dential election and as happening. This was his-
Nancy Pelosi’s five children, “There’s a thread from the the Capitol and behind the rioters began smashing toric what was happening,
follows the elder Pelosi’s ca- very first time they started scenes as she negotiates through the doors and and somebody needed to
reer over three decades. taking ads out against key votes for major pieces windows, violently shoving have a record of what was
The film offers a rare be- Nancy Pelosi and turning of legislation. It also depicts past overwhelmed police said,” she said.
hind-the-scenes look at her into a witch and turning threats the family received, officers, leaving many offi- Among those historic mo-
her political life, chronicling our last name into a curse including a severed pig’s cers bruised and bloodied. ments: discussion about
major milestones from her word. You can follow that head that was delivered to The film includes extended whether to move the entire
election to Congress in thread 20 years later to my the speaker’s San Francis- clips recorded as Pelosi Congress – all 100 sena-
1987 to becoming the first parents’ doorstep to my co home just days before and other congressional tors and 435 members of
female House speaker in father getting attacked,” the attack on the Capitol. leaders are rushed out of the House – by bus to Fort
2007 to the insurrection at Alexandra Pelosi said in an The camera was also roll- the Capitol and evacu- McNair and convene the
the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, interview with The Associ- ing on Jan. 6 as the House ated to Fort McNair, a joint session there to contin-
2021, as Congress was vot- ated Press. speaker prepared for the nearby Army base. It cap- ue the certification of the
ing to certify Joe Biden’s Pelosi’s film follows her certification of the presi- tures frantic leaders calling election. q

Nolan to debut ‘Oppenheimer’ IMAX trailer with ‘Avatar 2’

By LINDSEY BAHR on Kai Bird and Martin J. tor General Leslie Groves Nolan said that they recre- the use of CGI. He also said
AP Film Writer Sherwin’s Pulitzer Prize-win- Jr. and Robert Downey Jr. ated the Trinity test, the first it’s one of the most chal-
Christopher Nolan is ready ning biography “American as Lewis Strauss, a founding successful detonation of a lenging projects he’s ever
to show the world the first Prometheus: The Triumph commissioner of the U.S. nuclear weapon, without undertaken.q
full-length trailer for his new and Tragedy of J. Robert Atomic Energy Commis-
epic “ Oppenheimer “ and Oppenheimer,” and stars sion. Rami Malek, Florence
he’s doing so in the splashi- Cillian Murphy in the title Pugh, Benny Safdie, Mi-
est way possible: With an role. The thriller explores the chael Angarano, Josh Hart-
exclusive IMAX spot in front paradox of the man who nett and Kenneth Branagh
of “Avatar: The Way of Wa- infamously called himself are also among the large
ter.” the “destroyer of worlds.” ensemble.
The “Oppenheimer” trailer “The immersive quality of Nolan and cinematogra-
will debut globally on IMAX IMAX is massively important pher Hoyte van Hoytema
screens playing the “Ava- in transporting the audi- (who collaborated on
tar” sequel, which begins ence into the mind and ex- “Dunkirk,” “Tenet” and “In-
its theatrical run Thursday. It perience of this person who terstellar”) used a combi-
will not be made available forever altered our world,” nation of IMAX 65mm and
online and is distinct from Nolan said in a statement 65mm large format film to
the trailer that will show on to The Associated Press. shoot the film, which also
non-IMAX screens. The star-studded cast in- boasts the first ever use of
Nolan’s film, about the cludes Emily Blunt as Kath- IMAX black and white ana-
enigmatic, Harvard-edu- erine “Kitty” Oppenheimer, log photography for some This image released by Universal Pictures shows Cillian Murphy as
cated theoretical physicist his wife, a biologist and sections. J. Robert Oppenheimer in a scene from the film “Oppenheimer,”
written and directed by Christopher Nolan.
who helped develop the botanist, Matt Damon as In an interview with Total Associated Press
first atomic bomb, is based Manhattan Project direc- Film magazine this week,