Posted on 09/25/2007 8:30:06 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
Sally Field wins an Emmy and suddenly everyone wants to 'really, really like her' again. Fresh off her controversial appearance on the Emmys, when she won for Brothers & Sisters, Sally Field has been cast as Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of Abraham Lincoln, in Steven Spielberg's long-awaited biopic of one of the most important leaders of all time. Liam Neeson has already been cast as Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln bases on Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Steven Spielberg's Lincoln will center on the life of the leader in the time leading up to the Civil War as he inspired the troops of the North to fight. As E! reports, Liam Neeson has been attached to the project since way back in 2005, when it looked like Spielberg might do the flick between Munich and War of the Worlds. But the film has been postponed a number of times due to casting and scheduling conflicts. With the casting of Sally Field, Steven Spielberg's Lincoln is closer to actually happening than ever before.
Now, of course, Steven Spielberg is filming a little movie called Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, so Lincoln will have to wait. That film will be released May 22, 2008 and Spielberg has a history of doing one big summer movie and one "serious" winter movie. Jurassic Park and Schindler's List both came out in 1993 and War of the Worlds and Munich dropped in 2005. Don't be at all surprised if Spielberg drops Indiana Jones 4 and Lincoln in 2008. E! does note however that it could be tough to start Lincoln with Sally Field's Brothers & Sisters schedule. It may have to wait until her summer hiatus, but Spielberg could still get it out before the end of next year. Lincoln reteams Spielberg with Neeson from Schindler's List and Tony Kushner, the writer of Munich. It's got Oscar bait written all over it.
The 60-year-old Sally Field has a long history in television and film, recently finishing an arc on ER and being a series regular and Emmy winner now on Brothers & Sisters. Sally Field has been nominated for an Oscar twice and won both times for 1979's Norma Rae and 1984's Places in the Heart.
I have long held, w/o Lincoln, there would have been no Roosevelt (FDR, not Teddy).
The parallels are too shockingly close.
That's what I was thinking too.
He was a hero only after winning the Civil War. Before that the Republicans had dumped him for the 1864 election.
I think Jefferson Davis was a good man who had to make hard choices for a bad cause, the cause being the thoughtless destruction of free government bequeathed by the Founders, a destruction undertaken for the political and economic benefit of a narrow class of slaveowners.
The parallels are too shockingly close.
I see the strongest parallel between Keith Olbermann and Lincoln's Copperhead enemies
since there would have been no United States, you wouldn’t have had either; who would have been the hegemon, Hitler or Stalin, or would they have just carved it up between them?
Sally has the same chipmunk cheeks. I’ll bet it works, unless they are only using her as the young Mrs. Lincoln, and not as she gets older. We’ll find out.
For what part; Mad MAry Todd? Her actions at the Emmy fit and she even looks quite abit like her. She be a dead ringer if she porked up like Rosie O’.
Lincoln, just like fellow Republican Ronald Reagan, ensured a strong America free of the threat on foreign interference.
Jefferson Davis, like fellow southern Democrat Jimmy Carter, pursued policies which would have made America weak and vulnerable to the outside world.
I’m on the same page with you, but it’s getting hard to stay there with the margin on the replies going further and further out. Loks like the posting function is going the way of the view count.
Every single social studies class I have ever taken has said that the parties gradually switched following reconstruction.
It took a fair amount of time before I even understood the implication. Democrats are responsible for every good thing in the country ever. I chalk up not seeing it sooner to youth.
I think you are right.
Looks more like Knewt in drag.
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