Sarandon to Play Cindy Sheehan in Movie... [Drudge headline]

SFGate/via Drudge ^ | 3-19-06 | Vicki Haddock

[SquirrelKing]

The sun is rising over a house in the Berkeley Hills, and in its modest studio apartment, America's most compelling anti-war activist is making her bed, apologizing for the clutter and running late.

Cindy Sheehan was up much of the previous night while emergency room doctors treated her daughter for a painful cyst, but sleeping in is out of the question. Soon a car will whisk her off to a Canadian TV interview, to be followed by a local TV interview, and finally, fixing spaghetti for her three adult children in Vacaville -- her home before the death of her soldier son Casey and the political trajectory of her anguish propelled her to divorce, to estrangement from friends, and to a frenetic campaign to end U.S. military involvement in Iraq.

[Listen to a podcast about Cindy Sheehan]

And where is "home" to her now?

She pauses and sighs, sinking into the window seat and pulling a quilt up to her chin. "Nowhere, really ... ."

She's averaging just two days per month here. The next morning she will fly off again, the surreal star of what is -- depending largely on one's political perspective -- either an epic tragedy or a farce. After stops for protests in New Orleans and Washington, D.C., she will breakfast in Manhattan with actress Susan Sarandon, who is set to portray her in a biopic movie. A crew will film Sheehan for a weekly reality series on the Sundance Channel. Her letters to President Bush inspired "Peace Mom," a one-woman monologue show in London. A memoir is due to her publisher April 1.

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E-mail Vicki Haddock at vhaddock@sfchronicle.com.

[Hildy]

NOOO..Victor, Victoria (She was brilliant). She's talking to James Garner!!!!

[silver charm]

"The sun is rising over a house in the Berkeley Hills, and in its modest studio apartment, America's most compelling anti-war activist is making her bed,............"

Is this reporter trying to make a statement about how abysmal the California State Schools are? Even Bulwar Lyton would blush to write a sentence this bad.

So the sun is getting up in it studio apartment?

don't they have editors at sfgate?

[wardaddy]

that was a good movie...blake edwards flick...his wife Julie shed her Sound of Music -Poppins innocence in that one if I recall right..lol

[Hildy]

Well, if you're talking about Andrews taking off her top...that was in a movie called SOB, which I didn't like. Victor/Victoria was a movie about a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman. It was veyr entertaining. Leslie Ann Warren was the not-so-bright girlfriend of the Gangster played by James Garner.

[wardaddy]

you're right...I remember that....

[jjmcgo]

Cindy Sheehan has made a lot of money, gained 'new friends,' and done a lot of traveling, but has she yet purchased a headstone for her son's grave?

[SquirrelKing]

I don't know. Are those flowers on the ground, or sitting on top of a bronze marker?

[Volunteer]

This is a woman who was, "too tired" to speak to her son the last time he called home. Is it any shock that she it is always about her?

Cindy, you are a disgrace and you always will be a disgrace.

[sine_nomine]

Mickey Rourke would be good, too. Both are equally pretty.