Hey There!
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."
"If you think I will come close to apologizing to you, don't hold your breath. Actually, do hold your breath."
I'm not holding my breath over anything where you're concerned dood.
I actually take pity on ignorance of the kind that you poesses.
This is just plain wrong. He leaked stolen information. He stole the information on Nixon, it was not his to do with as he pleased. He was custodian of information gleaned from a govt. investigation.
Why should his family enrich themselves now? Surely there is some legal problem here.
Hey There!
No apology for your slanderous statement?
You are a troll.
But we knew that due to your claims of having been in the DIA, knowing Billy Graham's son, and your fallacious claims of knowing what motivates soldiers.
"No more anecdotal evidence or fuzzy logic?"
You're a hot one to mention that.
You said you're an 'economics graduate' and a college professor, and yet we're supposed to take YOUR anecdotal word about what motivates soldiers?
Hey, nice to know you haven't left your script: When cornered and caught lying or trolling, accuse others of YOUR own behavior.
When you make it past the alphabets, let me know.
We might be better off if it WAS the pron movie.
Hanks is an unabashed liberal and Speilberg suck-up. As liberal as they come.
Expect a really slick production making a hero out of a criminal and turning Nixon into a Satanic figure of evil.
I have jsut the right actress for that scary old hag Bella Abzug - Babs Streisand!!!
You don't know what an anecdote is, just like you didn't know what marginal is. Your call to arms to your fellow soldiers that went unanswered because no one is as stupid as you are is an anecdote. Go home, frenchie.
You still have yet to apologise for your SLANDER of txradioguy.
And anecdotal evidence would be your claim of knowing Billy Graham's son -without proof, your claim to know what motivates soldiers because you're an economics major, and your claim to have been in the DIA and have developed a system they still use.
Please stop me if this is all too fast for you.
And I notice that when you have no intelligent answer you throw insults out there.
THAT shows real intellectual development I might add.
"Your call to arms to your fellow soldiers that went unanswered"
Funny, on that one thread you got your butt chewed by quite a few people.
When you figure out what the problem with you is, maybe then you will be capable of HONEST discussion.
Let me ask you a serious question, econ.
What is missing inside your soul, that you would not apologize for making a horrible accusation about one of our fine U.S. soldiers, just because you were in an argument with him?
Why are you afraid to say that you were just angry and shouldn't have said it, and say you're sorry.
I'm an educator and a parent. I am curious about your behavior.
Why won't you behave as any responsible, decent adult would, and apologize without making excuses or blaming others for your own wrongdoing?
I am sure you know a lot about chewing butt, but all of them were satisfied with my responses. I have freep-mailed a few and most either agreed or could see my argument. I knew that reason and logic will prevail. But, not with you.
"Frenchie?"
Who, Darks?
What are you smoking and where can I get some?
And NO you should NOT be slamming txradioguy.
I notice you dance around the facts and avoid confronting the issue regarding your lies and the fact that I have shown how your statements are 'anecdotal' in contradiction to your claim that I do not know what 'anecdotal' means.
So I will restate it here:
And anecdotal evidence would be your claim of knowing Billy Graham's son -without proof, your claim to know what motivates soldiers because you're an economics major, and your claim to have been in the DIA and have developed a system they still use.
Please stop me if this is all too fast for you.
And I notice that when you have no intelligent answer you throw insults out there.
THAT shows real intellectual development I might add.
Another question........ do you understand that this is not the truth?
Now you are appealing to deceny after calling me everything on the books. Please, it is a little late for that. High walls make good neighbors. I am more than willing to not have to communicate with anyone in your cabal in the future in exchange for stopping this tet-a-tet that only ruins bandwidth.
Some of the soldier buddies he pinged came to question me on my comment. They were all satisfied - saw my point, and even if they disagreed with me agreed that it is a valid point. No one is stalking me like your buddies. Again, you are proving how shallow your existence is. If I was so outrageous, and I have been worse in the past in my criticism of Bush, then I would have evaporated from here by now.
I've asked you a lot of questions, which you have refused to answer. I've observed your (bizarre) behavior, and said that you need help. And I have stated that I do not believe what you have said (which changes with the wind, and includes some extremely creative claims), and that whoever you are, you are not all you claim to be.
I have also said that I would pray for you, and hope you get the help you need.
And I AM praying. And waiting for you to apologize to txradioguy for your despicable slander of him.
"You don't know what an anecdote is, just like you didn't know what marginal is. Your call to arms to your fellow soldiers that went unanswered because no one is as stupid as you are is an anecdote. Go home, frenchie."
OOOOOHHH! Big words! Do you have any more inane "insults" you want to toss around? Perhaps you should grow up a little before you put so much of your foot into your mouth.
BS!
Show me where they agreed with you.
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