Posted on 06/16/2005 10:40:32 AM PDT by Howlin
Tom Hanks' production company has bought the film rights to the life story of Mark Felt, the former FBI official recently revealed to have been Deep Throat, it was reported today. Universal Pictures is understood to have secured the rights for development by Playtone, the company co-owned by Hanks and Gary Goetzman, the New York Times reported today.
The rights, along with those for a book to be published by respected non-fiction house PublicAffairs, are believed to have been sold for almost $1 million (£550,000).
Peter Osnos, the chief executive of PublicAffairs, said the book is expected to be published in spring next year.
It will combine Mr Felt's memoirs and his meetings with Bob Woodward, the Washington Post reporter he gave secret information to during the Watergate investigation, with material written by John O'Connor, the lawyer who wrote the Vanity Fair article revealing Deep Throat's identity.
Contracts are expected to be announced today.
The movie rights should form the bulk of the payment to Mr Felt, but the full sum will depend on whether a film is eventually produced.
He has said he decided to unmask himself as Deep Throat to raise money for his grandchildren's education.
Meanwhile, the Nation magazine will reveal that he twice led FBI probes into finding the source of the leaks.
Writers David Corn and Jeff Goldberg found documents in once-confidential FBI files now available to the public that showed Mr Felt in charge of finding the source of Woodward and Carl Bernstein's Washington Post scoops that helped bring down President Richard Nixon.
"How Deep Throat Fooled the FBI", which shows how Mr Felt cleverly threw the federal agency off his trail, was posted will be published on June 23 and is already available on the magazine's website.
"He was much more than a secret sharer. He was an operator," says the story, adding he "was able to watch his own back and protect his ability to guide the two reporters".
At one stage, Mr Felt officially met with Woodward in what appears to have been a move to cover himself, the story said.
He agreed to see the reporter in the presence of his assistant, a 25-year FBI veteran, but did not confirm any details presented to him by Woodward. "That was obviously a staged event," Corn said. "Felt needed cover."
You need to just stop; you've embarassed yourself from one end of this forum to the other.
"I thought about responding, but no."
Umm, funny, but you DID respond.
Um,maybe he is one of those German lefties!
We'll see, if he ever responds to my post in German!
Funny, didn't you say this in another post. Are you running out of ammo, frenchie? Why not graduate from fourth grade? Maybe, even you can get a job.
LOL.
He posted a bunch of stuff earlier that indicates beyond a doubt that he is in either India or Pakistan.
econ_grad wrote:
I am not good with punctuations. How about "...as you are - is an anecdote."
"I thought about responding, but no. You are a piece of garbage."
You DID respond, my foreign "friend"...with an insult...are we getting close to home here? Why don't you just admit you are outclassed, tuck your tail between your legs and apologize to txradioguy like a good boy?
You'd be pitiful if your statements weren't so ridiculous.
You are too dumb to understand. If English is my second language, you are still teething. No wonder you joined the rest of the crowd.
My guess is the 'Deep Throat' propaganda machine will come out right before the 2006 and 2008 elections. Will any of these movies show the ambitions of the true Felt? Or, will the movies just blast conservative Republicans?
Hey, Lady!
How are you?
Ate Jager Schnitzel and spatzen and thought of you recently!
Just reiterating for your benefit mein fruende.
And it bears repeating, often.
Especially since you can't say anything about it besides hanging your head in embarrassment.
You should know better than to make grandiose and false claims as you have.
If you want to be believed, post from your own merits, not from imagined ones.
"If English is my second language, you are still teething."
Again, pretending you are an American will only get you laughed at.
Outclassed? Outnumbered and out-insulted, but outclassed? You won't know what class is. I could tell that from your post about my mother. Your buddy insulted my deceased sister. Don't teach me about class. When you pick up an econ book, maybe you will understand my argument. You go back to your cage and read up and maybe I will take pity in your ignorance.
Get on my radar again, and you just never know what might happen.
Pretending you are a human will only get you slapped. Go get a job, frenchie.
Out classed.
None of us cast aspersions on your sexuality or your ethnicity.
However, YOU have.
Yes, out classed.
"Pretending you are a human will only get you slapped. Go get a job, frenchie."
How about addressing the issues instead?
Like your slander of txradioguy?
How about, instead of insulting people, you actually DEAL with the subject at hand?
Cute.
I'm a lot of things.
Dumb ain't on the list.
I said, "I don't give a rat's @$$ if English WAS your second language".
(WERE you paying ANY attention? )
I don't even care what your nationality is, or where you post from.
What *I* see is someone who wants to sow dissension.
AND you take cheap shots at our troops to do it.
So WILL you address the txradioguy thing? Or will you continue to dodge?
What's it gonna be, Bucky?
Poor baby! Did I touch a nerve? Your arrogance is exceeded only by your stupidity about America and your blind mutterings of memorized insults.
That must have been some "econ class" you attended...they taught you how to make a fool of yourself on a public forum, yes?
You HAVE no argument. You are so infatuated with your own ideas that you will shame yourself to present them.
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