Posted on 03/26/2012 8:26:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Via JWF, a late-evening palate cleanser from your resident eeyoreblogger to send you to bed in a bad mood. I was searching for a joke here but couldn’t think of a precise analog for Hanoi Jane. “Co-starring Rosie O’Donnell as Mamie Eisenhower”? That doesn’t work; hate Rosie all you want, but she never posed for pics sitting on enemy guns. “Co-starring Bill Ayers as the Gipper”? Nah, that’s actually not fair to Fonda. She may have posed for the pics but she never tried to blow anyone up. Ah well. This ingenious bit of stuntcasting makes me as excited to see the movie as any roundhouse kick to the groin possibly could. Well played, Lee Daniels.
I’m sure it’ll be a rich, fair, thoughtful portrayal. Can’t wait for the kuh-ray-zee seance scene.
In the midst of recruiting an all-star ensemble for his long-gestating passion project “The Butler,” director Lee Daniels has tapped Jane Fonda to play Nancy Reagan.
Based on a Washington Post report by Wil Haygood, pic follows Eugene Allen, the White House butler whose career started with Harry Truman in 1952 and ended in 1986 with Ronald Reagan…
Daniels, who is directing from a script he co-wrote with Danny Strong, is in the process of finalizing financing for the pic, which has no distributor onboard yet. Pamela Williams will produce through Laura Ziskin Prods. along with Hilary Shor.
How about Vanessa Redgrave as Nancy Reagan instead? Michael Moore as Dick Cheney? C’mon, there has to be an apposite analogy here. And no, they can’t go out and get Streep. Granted, she did okay with her first conservative-icon role, but I’m pretty sure she’s beyond their budget.
I am running to the bathroom .......
Nancy has to be turn over in her grave.
this has got to be sarcasm it cannot be real
No one I know or served with would spend money to see Hanoi Jane.
Some idiots are going to lose money on this movie.
RE: Nancy has to be turn over in her grave.
NANCY REAGAN IS STILL ALIVE !!
Disgusting.
So why not indulge in a bit of turn-about-is-fair-play? We could put together a flick about sHrillary and cast, oh say Sylvester Stallone in the main role ;-)
Where is Barf alert?
I’ve read so much political/injustice/news tonight...my head is going to explode.
Enemy, mine.
Treason wasn’t enough for Hanoi Jane...now she has to commit sacrilege!
What an insanely-bad investment: Let them spend millions to attract a subgroup of a subgroup.
Of subhumans.
That slag whore can pal around with our halfrican marxist scum.
I think she’s still alive!
I posted an apology w/ a good dose of crow yesterday, but I guess it got lost in cyber space.
I just didn’t want her turning over in a grave that she didn’t need to be in. I understand. (i didn’t read the rest of the thread, so maybe I missed your apology)
Well this little bit of Hollywood crap ain’t gonna fly...but...
it’ll be great to hear who is considered for the “Gipper”:
Sean Penn?
George Clooney?
Rob Reiner?
Hugo Chavez?
Tom Hanks?
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