richard jewell, a film in which kathy bates has got a best supporting actress nomination.ood drama, based on a real—life story based on a security guard who spotted a suspect package at olympic park in 1996, and alerted the authorities, and subsequently became the subject of the fbi‘s investigations as he was somebody who really wanted to be a law enforcement officer. somehow, he fitted the profile of somebody who might have done something to draw attention to himself. this got out to the press, he was treated appallingly by the press. terrific performances by paul walter hauser as richard jewell at the centre of it, very good performance by kathy bates as the mother who sees the media closing in on him and this terrible media treatment he gets. it is a salutary story, a story about what happens when somebody is thrust, completely unjustly, into the spotlight. it is a shame, therefore, that the figure of the centraljournalist who breaks the story is itself guilty of some really crass, sexist stereotyping, which is to do with the film itself wanting to say, "look at how bad