There are some grey clouds in econ's future.
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."
Oooohhhh...did you just call me an idiot? I don't happen to like your family names, so please take it back.
You may be lauighing from the other side of your mouth before too long. You seem to have a never ending supply of racial slurs and ethnic insults...
You have my deepest sympathy.
I am trying but it sure is hard!
Got to go to work keep me posted!
See ya later!
Come on, frenchie. They taught you how to deal with threats didn't they? Did I hit a nerve. Nothing compared to what you said about my deceased sister. Go home, little boy.
Darksheare wrote:
He won't.
He'll claim later that he never said that.
Now you're GETTING some place! Yes, my dear, keep it up. You are doing just fine. Insults and racial slurs...;o]
I can see the clouds forming...
More lies...but hey I have seen you for a while here haven't I.
LOL.
You keep going back to the same tired old script!
Come up with something new.
"I am sure you are the kind that likes to shoot an unarmed guy."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/backroom/1422347/posts?page=485#485
All I ever wanted in life was a big van with a fiber-glass bug on top...
econgrad is a hostile person who has issues.
LOL!
"Frenchie" and "Ebonics" sure seemed like racial and ethnic slurs to me!
No worse than yours.
Later, Mrs N!
Yes.
He just said to Monkey Face that his Englsih is better than her ebonics.
THEN he turns around and claims he has never said a racial or ethnic remark!
There are some grey clouds in econ's future.
Hey, you!
How's life?
And yes, you are right!
As if you're a prize to look at?
Have fun someplace else for a week.
I see Kitties.
They are all around him, and he doesn't even know there are Kitties...
Seems he's been given a time out for a week.
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