Capt. Phillips

As part of the special Round Table series, HFPA members recently met with the man who inspired the making of the upcoming Tom Hank’s film Captain Phillips, merchant mariner Richard Phillips, the former captain of the Maersk Alabama who was captured and held hostage when the ship was hijacked by Somali pirates in April 2009. After spending five days tied up in a small lifeboat with the hijackers, Capt.