Drudge pic.
Posted on 03/19/2006 9:16:35 AM PST by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
I'm not even going to bother adding a /sarc tag to this post...
Drudge pic.
I'm sure she'll be portrayed as a leader instead of the shill she actually is.
Where was the barf alert! DAMN!
Woops. Guilty!
This is DEFINITELY a two-bucket post.
Apologies to the Sunday lunch crowd...
I always thought that Bob Denver should play her in the movie.
There was a time when now lefty and aged actresses were hot. Evidence: Jane Fonda in Barbarella (1968), and Susan Sarandon, in a very easy-on-the eyes scene she shared with Catherine Deneuve in the The Hunger (1982).
The ravages of time, I guess.
But I like Faye Dunaway, who is still attractive to my eyes, and hasn't (to my knowledge) descended to political idiocy.
But be very careful! That photo could crash the IRS's main server!
Is it possible for me to dislike this woman anymore than I already do?
Yep!
I know. In some ways I'm so used to being underwhelmed by Hollywood's efforts, that this seems like just a nother in the litany of Blue-State box-office farts.
Rats on a sinking ship indeed!
They waited too late to make this movie; the public has clearly lost interest. Even on DU, a Sheehan thread only gets a few posts nowadays (from the same handful of posters).
Cindy Sheehan, Susan Sarandon ... man, can they come up with a few more reasons why I would NOT want to see this thing?
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