“Poster Girl” Draws Crowd
June 10th, 2011
By Jan Barry “Poster Girl,” the 2011 Oscar-nominated documentary, drew a standing-room-only crowd of more than 100 people in a recent showing at the Puffin Cultural Forum in Teaneck, NJ. The June 1 event also included a discussion with director Sara Nesson and Robynn Murray, the Iraq war veteran whose story is the focus of […]
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Tags: documentary, Iraq, Oscar, PTSD, Robynn Murray, Sara Nesson, VA, veteran
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At the Movies: A Veteran’s War
March 3rd, 2011
By Jan Barry It was a long way from a machinegun mount in a military convoy in Baghdad. Robynn Murray’s getup was very elegant on Sunday at the Academy Awards in Beverly Hills, California. What made her stand out from the famous movie stars at Hollywood’s gala event was the brace of tattooed pistols perched […]
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Tags: documentary, Iraq, Oscar, Poster Girl, PTSD, Robynn Murray, VA
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