Posted on 04/08/2018 10:41:54 AM PDT by ethom
While the Kennedys didn't stop the Chappaquiddick movie, it looks like the Clintons can still create "second thoughts" in Hollywood. The Hollywood Reporter notes Glee creator Ryan Murphy "hit the brakes" on a season of his FX series American Crime Story centered on Monica Lewinsky.
Though Jeffrey Toobin's 2000 best-seller, A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Sex Scandal that Nearly Brought Down a President,was optioned as source material more than a year ago, Murphy says they had second thoughts. And he's already relayed as much to a relieved Lewinsky, whom he ran into at a Hollywood party.
"I told her, 'Nobody should tell your story but you, and it's kind of gross if they do,'" Murphy recalls saying. " 'If you want to produce it with me, I would love that; but you should be the producer and you should make all the goddamn money.'"
This is actually reminiscent of 1998. The Clintons could never complain about the liberals favoring them in their news coverage of Lewinsky. They just wanted the story to die and never return. It's not just using Toobin's Ken Starr-bashing text as your source material. Openly gay Murphy is a die-hard Democrat and held a fundraiser for Barack Obama in 2012 at his home. His 2017 season of American Crime Story was a horror-movie take on the Trump victory called subtitled Cult. It began with sobbing Hillary supporters saying "I won't believe anything until Rachel Maddow says it."
Murphy never found it "kind of gross" to profit from the murders of O.J. Simpson's wife Nicole and Gianni Versace, not to mention the vicious Trump series.
But wait, the sound of Clintonista footprints didn't end there. Washington Post gossip Emily Heil reports there were two Lewinsky dramas suffering from "second thoughts" syndrome.
The History Channel in September announced that it would air The Breach: Inside the Impeachment of Bill Clinton, a six-part drama by Nashville executive producer R.J. Cutler. But when we contacted the network Wednesday for a status update, a rep told us that “we made a decision not to move forward on that.” Instead of the quietly canceled feature series, which was to be based on [New York Times] journalist Peter Baker’s bestseller The Breach, the network is planning a “docuseries” on the matter, the rep says, though they have yet to release the details about it.
You might wonder why the History Channel ever put that series on the drawing board, since they knuckled under in 2011 on a Kennedy drama series they actually made with Greg Kinnear as JFK and Katie Holmes as Jackie. It aired instead on the obscure channel Reelz.
Heil noted the Clinton campaign of dramatis interruptus is not yet complete. Amazon Studios optioned a drama called Linda and Monica, on Lewinsky's friendship with Linda Tripp. There's a test of whether Amazon/Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos is a really good Democrat.
Forget Lewinsky.
Do an expose of the McDougals.
Ive still yet to see the Barry Seal/Tom Cruise movie!
The Clintons have enough dirt on Hollywood to make sure their dirt never sees the light of day.
That’s sufficient to keep a bigshot Hollywood producer in line.
Harvey Weinstein, anyone?
The Hollywood bigshot is also likely afraid of dying from Arkancide.
Wait until they are dead. Pretty much like all other movies.
Years ago there were always rumors about industries buying up and burying inventions that would have a negative effect on their companies.
Oil companies were said to have bought the patents on a super-carburetor that gave fantastic gas milege.
General motors (or was it Ford) supposedly bought up patents on auto engines that would run for a million miles.
Auto battery manufacturers were accused of buying up patents on batteries with an almost unlimited lifetime.
As far as we know it was all fantasy.
But are we seeing a real-life analog today?
Are wealthy liberals actually buying the rights and burying embarrassing stories about Bill and Hillary Clinton and possibly other democrats as well?
I’d be ok with the poor Lewinsky making $ off that. The Clintons owe her that much. 21 year old girl, truly a victim of workplace sex harrassment even if she started it and all. Remember she was a victim of older men while still a teen, at 21 years of age there hadn’t been enough time to get over thinking young ladies were supposed to have sex with older men etc. trust me on that one.
But the problem is that Lefties would have a hard time making a decent biopic about Clinton having “an affair” with Lewinsky without getting into his full on serial rape accusations, because that was how we found out about Lewinsky. He had broken the law with Paula Jones, so he was going around to all the chicks trying to shut them up. That is their problem. Clinton Lewinsky was NOT in a vacuum.
Ryan Murphy pretty much admits it!
Monica knew exactly what she was doing, and she’s been conning all of the gullible fools ever since with her “poor me” act.
I agree with her. No young girl (even adult) deserves to go through that. She made mistakes. Most young people do. But HE WAS THE CEO and shouldn’t have been allowing a young intern to fall in love with him and have a one sided affair when he was just using her as a receptacle.
Some jerk commenting on an American Spectator article has a handle of “TrumpheartsStormy.” I responded ObamaheartsReggieLove. Now there’s a story.
No. Disagree with you. Monica only knew, cool, the President of the United States wants me! Wow, I’m in love with the President and he is going to marry me one day! She never knew her life was in danger, she didn’t even know she had “no chance” to be someone in his life.
So she didn’t know the President was MARRIED?!?!?!?!
Please.
waiting for him to die
Kennedy croaked in 2009. So it took nine years for Kennedy clan clout to diminish to where “Chappaquiddick” could be produced?
Strange. Was Joe Kennedy III phoning in boozy threats to Hollywood all the while?
I hope he sits on it and rotates.
I am waiting for a movie on the life and times of the clintons with the sam standards of journalism as roger stone uses.
Will never see it because of fear of arkancide.
Don’t forget his boytoy Larry Sinclair
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