Posted on 09/12/2006 5:18:32 PM PDT by IrishMike
The maker of a controversial movie that portrays President Bush as an assassination victim admits he hid his true intentions from White House officials in order to film footage of the commander in chief on a visit to Chicago.
Gabriel Range, the 32-year-old British director of "Death of a President," told the Los Angeles Times his crew received official White House press credentials by proving they were affiliated with Britain's Channel 4, which will air the film this fall.
Range, who filmed the president's arrival at the airport and his speech to the Economic Club of Chicago, spent six months in the city, where he filmed anti-war rallies and staged other rallies himself without attracting press attention, the Times said.
The film, which debuted Sunday night at the Toronto Film Festival, has been denounced for centering on the fictionalized death of a sitting president. .....
Actor Kevin Costner, who was in Toronto to premiere a film of his own, has come out in opposition to "Death of a President," saying Range failed to consider how Bush's family would react to scenes of the president being assassinated.
"It's awfully hard if you're his children, his wife, his mother, his dad; there's a certain thing we can't lose as human beings, which is empathy for maybe the hardest job in the world," Costner said, according to Contactmusic.com. "Whether we think it's being performed right or not we can't, like, wish ... or think that's even cute."
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Leftists are carrion, maggots serve a purpose by eating carrion and ridding the world of the stench.
You owe maggots an apology, Pissant.
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I never used them, but I hear they are good fish bait used in a sack / coarse fishing).
The Left and the Truth are strangers.
I would have thought the libs. would be almost spent by now. Collapsing into an exhausted heap, drained by rage and choking on the life-blood of their bitter bile. Yet they manage somehow to raise their knarled fingers into the air and whisper their curses on President Bush. It's the most pitiful sight to behold.
no American will go to this picture
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I think I will go to the old megaplex and observe the vermine who go inside to watch this sleeze fest.
DISGUSTING POS.
Repubs had better wake-up as well. . .and do more than just 'smell the coffee'. . .
No kidding!!! That's why I was NEVR afraid that George HW Bush would ever be assassinated...no one wanted Quayle!!
Not for this but...
He'll smoke a turd in hell for it.
Ditto
Wrong!!!! A lot of Americans will go to this film. Of course the will all be left wing nut cases.
I started reading and thought, "Aw crap....now I can't watch Costner movies either?" Then I read on and breathed a sigh of relief.
For this, I can almost forgive Costner some of his lesser works.
Not that I'll watch them.
What's going on in Hollywood?
Tom Cruise gets cut from his lucrative contract...
Some actors come out for Israel and against Hezbollah in a big advert...
Leno lets James Wood go deep on his 9-11 involvement and being pegged
as a bigot by the pre-9-11 FBI...
and now Costner saying sane things out in public?
Soon it will be raining cats and dogs in Biblical proportions!
Me, too. I was surprised because I think I remember Costner being a liberal on other issues.
You'd think we'd all recognize, whatever the party of the president, that glorifying the assassination of any president is a loser.
Send in the back helicopters.
It's just gotta be the end of the world. LOL!
HA! I don't believe that for one minutes; Nancy and Howie will be at the opening....bet on it.
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