Davis's idea of a service [Full Text] Trust Judy Davis to be part of a malevolent character assassination of former US President Ronald Reagan, who is in an advanced stage of Alzheimer's disease and in no position to defend himself.
Reagan, 92, and his wife, Nancy, are the subject of an American CBS TV docu-drama, The Reagans, to be aired in the US this month.
Judging by press leaks, the two-part miniseries deliberately portrays the Gipper as a hard-hearted, homophobic, moronic, religious nut, and Nancy as a pill-popping control freak and awful mother.
Playing Nancy is our very own Davis, 48, the Green Left Weekly pin-up girl.
The Drudge Report website says Davis's portrayal of Nancy was inspired by the movie Mommie Dearest in which Faye Dunaway portrayed Joan Crawford: "Wild mood swings, dramatic lighting, and tart-mouth insults are hysterically delivered by Davis."
Nancy Reagan, at 82, has devoted the end of her life to caring for her sick husband and preserving his legacy. She is said to be "in anguish" over the telemovie's lies and has tried in vain to stop it.
Davis couldn't care less. "If this film can help create a bit more questioning in the public about the direction America has been going in since the 1970s . . . it will be doing a service."
Playing the former president is James Brolin, whose wife, Barbra Streisand, is a Democratic Party shill who is "tight" with the telemovie's producers and spent months on set.
Davis pops up in Sydney from time to time making flowery speeches denouncing George Bush and John Howard, marching in anti-war rallies with John Pilger, or launching a book by her left-wing mate Stuart Rees, director of the conflict-plagued Sydney Peace Foundation.
A starring role in a fifth-rate hatchet job on a dying man is not much to be proud of. [End]