The truly excellent Charlie Wilson’s War is after all a true story, and apparently the real life Charlie Wilson and Joanne Herring take offense to a couple of elements of their characterisations: “"I didn't like the cursing, the drinking and the blatant sex. They turned me into a kooky hypocritical tart”, claims 78 yo Herring (played by Julia Roberts with a truly dodgy Texan accent). Even less flattering are the implications that whilst these two supposed heroes may have ended the Cold War, they also armed and trained Afghanistani troops in a manner that would years later hijack a couple of planes and bite the Americans in the ass. After all, being represented as “foul-mouthed, religious and sex-obsessed” isn’t half as band as being responsible for the slew of bad country songs that emerged in the wake of 9/11.