Because They Haven't Savaged Palin Enough...
"Sarah Palin is getting the movie treatment with HBO Films' Game Change. Oscar-nominated actress Julianne Moore will portray the former Alaska governor in the project, which will chronicle Palin's burst into the national scene as a surprise vice presidential candidate in 2008."
Game Change, of course, is the book by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann that portrays Palin as an hysterical prima donna being mis-handled by an almost pathologically angry and disconnected John McCain. And here's the thing: in principle, I have no problem with HBO making a movie of that point of view... except that when Joel Surnow made a non-leftist-approved bio-pic of the Kennedy's, it was discarded by A&E's History channel under pressure from the Kennedy clan. Likewise, Cyrus Nowrasteh's wonderful docu-drama Path to 9/11 which apportioned a modicum of blame to Bill Clinton for failing to prevent the 9/11 attack, has STILL not been released on DVD because of Clintonian pressure.
I can't help feeling that the left's idea is that the arts belong exclusively to them - their private plaything to express what views they want - and any conservative who dares to think different is going to have his project run off the road like the little red wagons in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. You remember: The little red wagons carrying the truth... run off the road by the trucks of the political machine.
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Aug '10
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H B what?
Aug '10
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Who'll play the Andrew Sullivan part?
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Julianne Moore sure is a versatile actress. From a lesbian to Sarah Palin overnight.
The left's obsession with Palin is truly a remarkable phenomenon. I can't think of a figure on the left that I'd want to watch a movie about -- even a movie that cast that particular leftist as a villain. A movie about Obama? No thanks, I've had quite enough of him as it is.
Jun '10
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I would have thought the de facto casting would have gone to Meryl Streep...CGI can do wonders.
Jun '10
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Wait for it...wait for it....Richard Dreyfuss as John McCain...any takers?
Dec '10
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Quick! Get Charlie Sheen on the horn and ask if he can play the part of Levi Johnston !!
Oct '10
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Charlie Sheen's two "goddesses" can play the role of state-run media journalists.
May '10
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Gov. Palin will be the target of relentless, bitter attacks from the left for the rest of her days. And, decades from now, when she has been long passed away, and new figures on the right come to national attention, the left will howl how that if that wise, moderate Sarah Palin were alive today, she wouldn't recognize this wild bunch of extremists that have now seized control of her dear old, sensible Republican Party.
Aug '10
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Diane Ellis, Ed.: Julianne Moore sure is a versatile actress. From a lesbian to Sarah Palin overnight.
The left's obsession with Palin is truly a remarkable phenomenon. I can't think of a figure on the left that I'd want to watch a movie about -- even a movie that cast that particular leftist as a villain. A movie about Obama? No thanks, I've had quite enough of him as it is. · Mar 9 at 3:22pm
Don't ever forget "Boogie Nights" . movie choices should be like tattoos for that milieu
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By the way, one of the fascinating thing about the book Game Change is that, while it treats Obama with kid gloves, he still comes across as a total phony, a man who knows nothing except how to play the public.
Aug '10
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Any takers on Elizabeth Edwards portrayal ? Ten bucks they write it out ~ The third rail of mortality and reality.
Jul '10
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I actually think Julianne Moore--much like Meryl Streep and yes, Tina Fey--actually has a fair amount of integrity so I don't think the role will be played as two-dimensionally as it could be in other hands (You cannot convince me that Tina Fey doesn't respect Palin, even if she would never vote for her). What I'll be curious to see is if the film presents the Obama campaign as the book does, where he totally comes off looking like even more of a pompous, self-absorbed dilettante than you ever though he was in your worst nightmares. Axelrod and co. referring to him as "black Jesus?" How's that going to play on-screen? This has the potentially to be interesting...though the timing is interesting, it should air just as the Republican nomination is being clinched and my money's still on the filly.
Jul '10
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I'm hoping for Robert Duvall as John McCain (best bald actor I could think of!), and I'm guessing Will Smith's agent is currently running circles around Tinseltown trying to nab him the part of Obama. Halle Berry is a shoe in for Michelle Obama, but I would be much happier if Monique were to clinch the role.
Jul '10
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The actor who played Betty Draper's dad on "Mad Men" should play McCain, Ryan Cutrona. Every time he appeared on "Mad Men," I did a double-take. He's even got that same strange half-leer that McCain does...
Sep '10
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What are the odds you hear the following line spoken in the movie?
"A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee."
Jan '11
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When I was in grade school, we were taught about hearsay. (You all probably had the same experiment.) The teacher would whisper something to the kid in the front row, who then had to repeat it to the next row, who would then repeat it to the next, and so on until the last kid. Finally, the last kid would stand up and repeat, out loud, what he heard. Then they compared that to what the teacher had originally said.
Inevitably, as the story passed along, it was distorted and often mangled along the way.
It'll just be hearsay, with all the mangling that implies.
Edited on Mar 9, 2011 at 10:03pmMay '10
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Fey would be perfect for the role.
Julianne Moore's a good actress, but she will over-dramatize it. Palin is a person to whom smiles and laughter come easily. Tina Fey would probably have to be restrained at times from taking the humor too far, but a portrayal of Palin should include her upbeat and casual nature.
Aug '10
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Mark Belling Fan: What are the odds you hear the following line spoken in the movie?
"A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee." · Mar 9 at 8:37pm
And I thought the Elizabeth Edwards stuff was the third rail......I think this quote is the most unimaginable inclusion .