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."
"Again, you are proving how shallow your existence is."
Actually, with every insult you toss out there, and the longer you go without aplologising and retracting your statement, you prove just how much projectionism your statement is.
" 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."
How about you don't make anymore outrageous claims, don't slander soldiers, and you don't toss insults out tehre?
HMM?
And since when have YOU been concerned about bandwidth?
I know that you are irrationally anti-Bush, and in spite of your great efforts to do so, you cannot hide your massive anti-military comments, and you did NOT satisfy a large number of pro-military folks who were appalled by your comments, even if you have convinced yourself that you have.
I'll leave you alone now, to deal with your own conscience.
You will not get a single piece of personal info about me. I will give you a clue though. I have quoted a newspaper here which I read daily. Go find it and figure out on your own.
As far as the rest of my claims, you seem to be more jealous of them than anything else. I have accomplished a few things in my life. Not all I want but working on them. You should get a list yourself and not just be jealous of others. I don't need to prove anything to you, because I am not a voyeur and feel no need to show off.
If you are an educator, why don't you read up some economics and then maybe you would understand what I was saying.
"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."
Maybe the mods are just keeping you around so we can play with you? It would seem to me the only point you have is the one on your head. You're really good at tossing stuff out, but you're not as good at taking it when it's tossed back. Wassupwithat? Maybe you want to try out for the part of Troll in our most recent production, eh?
It's easy.
You're in either India or Pakistan.
You are NOT in the USA, and were never in the DIA.
You do NOT know Billy Graham's son.
And being an economics graduate does NOT grant you amazing powers of perception into the minds and motivations of US soldiers.
Who will play the Linda Lovelace role?
You continue to lie and slander. If you are an educator, I am concerned about the children you are teaching because you do not have the requisite skills, unless you are a pathological slanderer. I have satisfied a few of them. The only ones left arguing and stalking me (it is illegal in real life) will never understand a logical statement if it hit them in their faces. Again, if you actually wanted to understand you would picked an econ book by now. Why not ask some of those people whose questions were valid and maybe they can edify you.
"You continue to lie and slander."
LOL, that's a hot one coming from you mister "You liek to shoot unarmed people in the back"!
I am not good with punctuations. How about "...as you are - is an anecdote."
Bet the daughter has Felt's power of attorney. He'll never see a dime. Sleazy, money-grubbing b!tch!!
And you are in your boyfriend's basement. Don't be jealous, go out and get a job. And then maybe you will accomplish 5% of what I have.
"You will not get a single piece of personal info about me. I will give you a clue though. I have quoted a newspaper here which I read daily. Go find it and figure out on your own."
Must be one of the leftist British dailies that are published in the Middle East.
"As far as the rest of my claims, you seem to be more jealous of them than anything else. I have accomplished a few things in my life. Not all I want but working on them. You should get a list yourself and not just be jealous of others. I don't need to prove anything to you, because I am not a voyeur and feel no need to show off."
If you have no need to ahow off, why so you keep telling us all of your many "good points"?
"f you are an educator, why don't you read up some economics and then maybe you would understand what I was saying."
We could probably understand what you were saying if you made any sense at all. You sound like a liberal's parrot.
Go tell your mother she wants you.
I agree 100 percent. She's driving THIS deal.
"The only ones left arguing and stalking me (it is illegal in real life) will never understand a logical statement if it hit them in their faces. "
Perhaps if you quit lying and slandering soldiers we'd let up on you.
And perhaps if you actually and honestly answered some questions rather than trying to be clever and dancing around them, maybe you'd find things slightly easier.
And maybe if you admitted that you do not understand the motivations of US soldiers instead of claiming that you do because you're an economics graduate, maybe you'd begin to understand what the problem is.
I must be close to the truth.
Every time someone gets too close to something you don't like, you lash out with an insult.
Let me guess, you're Kashimiri, right?
I thought about responding, but no. You are a piece of garbage.
You are NOT in the USA, and were never in the DIA.
You do NOT know Billy Graham's son.
And being an economics graduate does NOT grant you amazing powers of perception into the minds and motivations of US soldiers.
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