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A937A7E00000578-20_634x335.jpg' alt='Romance Films The Nut Job ' title='Romance Films The Nut Job ' />Comey agrees to testify in front of Senate intel committee. Fired FBI Director James Comey has agreed to publicly testify in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee in a hearing that will be scheduled for after Memorial Day. Chairman Sen. Richard Burr R NC said he hopes Comeys testimony will clarify for the American people recent events that have been broadly reported in the media as the committee continues its investigation into Russias alleged interference in the 2. Vice Chairman Sen. Mark Warner D VA said he hoped Comey would answer some of the questions that have arisen since Director Comey was so suddenly dismissed by the President. The bombshell announcement on Friday evening came just hours after a summary of a May 1. Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump and Russias ambassador and foreign minister was read to a. New York Times reporter. According to the meeting notes that White House aides circulated internally, President Donald Trump met with Sergey Lavrov and Sergey Kislyak just one day after Comey was fired and told them the ousted FBI director was a real nut job whose departure would make life easier for him. I just fired the head of the F. B. I. He was crazy, a real nut job, Trump said, according to the summary. I faced great pressure because of Russia. Thats taken off. Trump also assured the Russian envoys Im not under investigation. Fired FBI Director James Comey has agreed to publicly testify in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee in a hearing that will be scheduled for after Memorial Day. Chairman Sen. Richard Burr R NC said he hopes Comeys testimony will clarify for the American people recent events that have been broadly reported in the mediaNews broke shortly after it was revealed Trump pictured with Sergey Lavrov told his Russian guests on May 1. James Comey was a real nut jobThe president has offered a variety of explanations for Comeys firing. The White House initially cited a memo by deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein cataloging Comeys handling of the HIllary Clinton email investigation. Trump later said Comey wasnt doing a good job, and told NBC News that Russia was on his mind when he decided Comey had to go. During a Thursday afternoon press conference, Trump said Comey had turned in a poor, poor performance testifying in the Senate, and slammed him for giving false testimony about about emails from Clinton aide Huma Abedin that ended up on her disgraced then husband Rep. Anthony Weiners computer. The White House says the pot shot at Comey was meant to ease tensions with Lavrov and help him ease into a negotiating postureThat was a poor, poor performance. So poor in fact that I believe and youd have to ask him because I dont like to speak for other people but I believe thats why the deputy attorney general went out and wrote his very, very strong letter, Trump said. And then on top of that, after the Wednesday performance by Director Comey, you had a person come and have to readjust the record, which many people have never seen before because they were misstatements made. And I thought that was was something that was terrible. The Comey firing got another airing on Capitol Hill when Rosenstein briefed House members Friday. Rosenstein called James Comey a role model, in his first official comments about the firing, but he is standing by the memo he wrote that President. Trump used to justify his firing of FBI Director. I wrote it. I believe it. I stand by it, Rosenstein told lawmakers in two closed door meetings Friday. It is a candid memorandum about the FBI Directors public statements concerning a high profile criminal investigation, Rosenstein said. Although he piled on Comey in the memo and called for new leadership, he stopped short of calling for his firing. I thought the July 5 press conference by Comey was profoundly wrong and unfair both to the Department of Justice and Secretary Clinton. It explicitly usurped the role of the Attorney General, the Deputy Attorney General and the entire Department of Justice it violated deeply engrained rules and traditions and it guaranteed that some people would accuse the FBI of interfering in the election, Rosenstein said, according to a copy of his opening remarks. The presidents ties to Russia have become the subject of great speculation among Democrats who are convinced his presidential campaign colluded with Moscow to meddle in the November election and tilt it in his favor. ONGOING INVESTIGATIONS 1. Special counsel Robert Mueller is overseeing the investigation into any links andor coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump. The investigation also includes any possible cover up or obstruction of justice. The House and Senate Intelligence Committees are looking more broadly into Russias interference in the 2. Russia and the Trump campaign. The Senate Judiciary Committee and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are investigating Flynns ties foreign entities after he failed to report his lobbying work for Turkey. He also lied about the nature of his communications with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The investigation has expanded to investigate whether Trump told Comey to go easy on Flynn and whether that would count as obstruction of justice. Sen. John Mc. Cain R Ariz. Watergate and the Iran Contra scandal. Soon afterward, Rosenstein announced he was naming a special counsel to probe alleged Russian election interference. Making matters more awkward for Trump, an ill timed leak established that he revealed sensitive Israeli intelligence to his Russian guests about a new ISIS plot to detonate laptop computer bombs aboard commercial aircraft. Both houses of Congress and the FBI have been conducting a troika of investigations, and the Department of Justice this week appointed former FBI director Robert Mueller as a special counsel empowered to probe any criminal wrongdoing. Comey left is on the outs but former FBI director Robert Mueller left has been named as an independent counsel to probe Trumpworlds alleged Russia ties. In Thursdays presser, Trump called the broad menu of investigation a collective witch hunt. And there is no collusion between, certainly, myself and my campaign but I can always speak for myself and the Russians, he said. Zero.  On Friday Spicer insisted, as the Trump has repeatedly, that malicious leaks from inside the administration are a bigger danger to the United States than anything Russia related. He also took pot shots at Comey, who exploded a tactical grenade in Trumps face by revealing through his associates that he had written notes of at least one February meeting with Trump. In one memo read aloud to a Times reporter, Comey wrote the president suggested he close a federal investigation into disgraced National Security Advisor Mike Flynn by saying I hope you can let this go. Congressional committees clamored to get Comey to testify in the wake of the reports, and House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz announced a hearing next week despite not being able to find Comeys new phone number to get him to attend. Chaffetz also wrote a letter to the FBI, requesting all memoranda, notes, summaries and recordings of discussions between Comey and Trump be turned over by May 2. Long Shelved Period Romance Is No Garden of DelightsTulip Fever was a hot book in 2. Its earned the kind of Hollywood conjecture that finds a fitting corollary in the movies scenes of Dutch traders speculating on tulip investments during the flowers 1. Would Tulip Fever ever show When In what form Was it good Bad Just unlucky Whoever placed a bet on September 1, 2. Weinstein Company schedule collect your winnings. The resulting movie from director Justin Chadwick The Other Boleyn Girl isnt terrible, but it routinely flirts with terribleness its disjointed, each scene torn between the pull of its sumptuous period detail and the dissonance of its mismanaged emotional structure and schematic plot. Mostly it reflects the kind of wishful thinking about beloved literary properties, evocative historical eras, and disrobed stars that results in lots of artisanal detail but a surfeit of actual filmmaking or true enchantment. Watch Video Watch Alicia Vikander, Dane De. Haan in Racy, Sexual Tulip Fever Trailer. Fans of Deborah Moggachs novel, which spins around an adulterous affair between a married woman and a struggling painter, will always be able to hold on to the experience of curling up to her twisty, panting tale. But those who see the movie first an adaptation shes credited with writing, along with Tom Stoppard may be left wondering what all the fuss was about. Its 1. 63. 4 in a bustling, tulip crazed Amsterdam when young, God fearing Sophia Alicia Vikander is carried away from the orphanage shes known her whole life to become the new wife to wealthy older nobleman Cornelius Christoph Waltz. When repeated attempts to produce a child prove fruitless, Cornelius opts to bolster his masculine pride in having such a beautiful, nubile wife by commissioning a portrait from a scrappy young artist named Jan Dane De. Haan. It isnt long, though, before the steamy glares behind Corneliuss back result in naked time for Sophia and Jan in the painters cramped loft. READ MORESee Tulip Fevers latest POWER MOVE. Their fling is complicated by the storys other romance, between Corneliuss lusty kitchen maid Maria Holliday Grainger, My Cousin Rachel also the movies narrator and her fishmonger beau Willem Jack OConnell, Unbroken. Under circumstances too farcical to go into involving mistaken identity and pregnancies real and fake, Sophia and Jan are left trying to get out from under her merchant husbands grip by making a quick killing in the increasingly bubble worthy illegal tulip market, an underground auction animating Amsterdams barrooms at night. Prized above all the chance that a future parcel of bulbs might produce the rare white tulip with a violent, breathtaking slash of crimson. The hope for a movie like Tulip Fever is that its disparate characters and intersecting storylines produce a kind of carousel atmosphere of passion, greed, desperation and chase. But Chadwick, perhaps worried that the notion of costume drama spelled boredom, treats the material like it needed the Paul Greengrass touch. Its relentlessly in motion, following characters down alleys, along the docks, up staircases, through crowded bars, and into rooms where doors are slammed shut and everything is said or shouted upfront. The merry go round always seems in danger of getting knocked off the track. Also Read Christoph Waltz in Talks for James Camerons Alita Battle AngelYou cant keep your attention fixed on any of it, much less grasp the intricacies of the tulip market when theyre barked quickly amongst yelling traders. Appreciating the immersive production design from Simon Elliott The Iron Lady or the textured hues of Eigil Brylds In Bruges cinematography becomes a game of blink and youll miss it when Chadwicks handheld camera is so unnecessarily busy. The films downside besides having no visual flair regarding the showcasing of tulips is that the central love story feels rushed and empty. Theres more spark between Grainger and OConnell their joys and woes are the storys most fully felt. Vikanders Sophia goes from cloistered prude to adulterer so quickly your head will spin, while De. Haans Jan is tossed around by the whims of the plot to the extent that he barely registers as a person. Waltz, meanwhile, is saddled with the type of character defined only by his obstructive qualities a late in the story attempt to humanize him feels too little, too late. The small role parade includes Matthew Morrison, Kevin Mc. Kidd and Zach Galifianakis as cohorts of Jans, none of whom leave a mark, while Judi Dench at least musters up some great actor poise and grit as a character not in the novel, the orphanages wise Abbess, who grows tulips as well as future wives and maids, understanding a thing or two about the societal value of each. Her lines are the only ones that show Stoppardian wit. Does Tulip Fever feel like a precious bulb poorly nurtured Primarily it comes across as something laboriously over handled, and any flower so treated is bound to lose its luster. After waiting so long, the strongest fragrance on display is one of sweat and mediocrity. Summer 2. 01. 7 Movie Winners and Losers, From Spider Man Homecoming to The House PhotosWho killed it this summer, and who should hope to have a better fallCheck out The. Wraps list of this summers movie winners and losers. WINNER Wonder WomanApart from making more than 4. WBLOSER Rough NightUnfortunately, Sonys Rough Night has only banked 2. Plus, it received mixed reviews from critics and one month later, a similar comedy in that it starred several recognizable actresses in a tale of old friends reuniting with a wild night that gets way out of hand performed better among critics and the box office. WBWINNER Patty Jenkins. Jenkins directed the second biggest movie of the year Wonder Woman and has been an outspoken critic about female representation in Hollywood. Plus, she is in the process of negotiating a record breaking deal to helm its sequel. Getty Images. LOSER The MummyTom Cruises reboot of the Brendan Fraser films cost a reported 1. Thankfully, it played well overseas, but it still received a Rotten Tomatoes score of 1. Universal. WINNER Christopher Nolan. Christopher Nolan resurfaced this summer with Dunkirk, which has become a strong Oscar contender and was very well reviewed by critics. It currently has a 9. Rotten Tomatoes. Getty Images. LOSER The HouseYoud think a movie starring Amy Poehler and Will Ferrell would be a hit, but no. For Ferrell, its the worst opening weekend for any of his movies with a screen count of over 3,0. Semi Pro and the 1. Zoolander No. 2 last year. The Full When Marnie Was There Movie. WB Domestic Distribution President Jeff Goldstein told The. Wrap, Were so disappointed. We had much higher hopes. WINNER DunkirkAs previously mentioned, Dunkirk received stellar reviews and raked in a solid amount of money both domestically and overseas. It was lauded as a masterpiece. WBLOSER Any Parent Sent to Watch Emoji MovieThe Emoji Movie became summers worst reviewed movie, even below Transformers and The Nut Job 2. We just feel bad for the parents that were forced to take their kids to the theater to see it. And there were a lot. Sony. WINNER Ansel ElgortBaby Driver pretty much defied all expectations and had solid reviews but also made a decent amount of money. Many praised Ansel Elgort in his career turning performance, and people loved the soundtrack of the movie itself. Getty Images. LOSER SequelsTransformers The Last Knight, Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales and Alien Covenant all underperformed at the domestic box office. Audiences at home seem to be sick and tired of sequels, although those particular 3 raked in huge overseas. Fox. WINNER Disney. Disneys summer roster included Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.