Wednesday, October 2, 2013

The real Capt. Phillips gets hero's welcome in Vt.

Captain Richard Phillips, the real-life ship captain being played by Tom Hanks in the docudrama "Captain Phillips," smiles during an interview before a screening of "Captain Phillips," on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013 in Williston, Vt. The film was adapted from the captain’s memoir about the 2009 hijacking of his vessel by Somali pirates. Phillips spent five days as a hostage of the pirates on a lifeboat, where he was beaten, tied up and threatened before he was rescued days later by U.S. Navy SEALs. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot) WILLISTON, Vt. (AP) — The captain of the American cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates four years ago returned home from sea to another hero's welcome — this time for a sneak peak of the Tom Hanks movie about the ordeal.








via Entertainment News Headlines — Yahoo! News
Posted by at
Labels: ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)