Posted on 05/08/2015 8:22:00 PM PDT by Steelfish
Natalie Portman Set To Play Ruth Bader Ginsburg In New Biopic
Ben Jacobs 8 May 2015 Natalie Portman has played rebels, ballerinas, the Queen of England and Luke Skywalker’s mother but now she looks set to take on her most intimidating role yet: “the Notorious RBG”. Deadline reported on Friday afternoon that Portman had signed on to play supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a biopic about the life of the octogenarian jurist.
The movie, entitled On the Basis of Sex, will focus on Ginsberg’s career, including her position leading the Women’s Rights Project, where she litigated landmark cases in front of the supreme court two decades before being appointed to it. In this role, Ginsburg played a crucial part in establishing that the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment applied to gender.
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I NEVER walk out of movies, but I did hers. I want my $3 back
LOL!!!!!
Naw, she just has an erection.
The ultimate classic Ginsburg quote is when she said in an interview in the New York Slimes that she was surprised that Roe was decided on the basis of a woman’s right to privacy.
“Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/16/AR2009071603485.html
If Buzzi is dead, her Wikipedia article hasn’t caught up on it.
Ooops. I just assumed. I must have been thinking of Joanne Worley.
She was really good when she play Mathilda in The Professional but of course she was very young then - a very good movie though!
OK I wouldn’t go THAT far. LOL
Do you mean shows a Conservative once? Surprise, never read that.
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All "Based on a True Story"
Natalie Portman is a babe,
Why not someone who is a better fit, someone like Gollum?
You know you’re old when the pictures of your younger years are daguerreotypes.
Poor casting. Lily Tomlin would have been a better choice.
They’re both freaks and a movie I’d never watch.
I can’t imagine someone stupid enough to want to sit on their ass for two hours, eating popcorn and watching a movie about Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg. That’s just weird.
Who cares? Is anybody interested in Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life?
Neither was Irene Ryan.
I believe the absolutely perfect person for the part would have been actress and songstress, Lotte Lenya, who played the part of Rosa Klebb,
Chief Operations officer for SPECTRE, in the James Bond film "From Russia With Love".
Klebb was an evil, muderous, ugly little wretch with poisoned stilletos hidden in the toes of her shoes.
A perfect fit for the part.
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