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 beg to differ, Suh.
The CSA would nevah, I say NEVAH, degenerated to the point of drinking a li-cure made from the pulp of eviscerated plants while simultaneously licking sodium form the bodies of nubile brown skinned womyn!
And you dare describe such a situation without posting pictures ? Heresy, suh !
Yeah....that’s WHAT I was thinking....perfect fit for her.
I went to public school all my life and never heard anything about that at all. It wasn’t even untill college level history that I knew the Civil War wasn’t about slavery.
yeah, they’ll be depicting him as gay.
Your experience mirrors mine exactly!
Being schooled in Pennsylvania I was ignorant as to the real causes that divided the nation until an interest in American history started a quest for the truth.
From the point of view of Lincoln and the Union, the Civil War was about saving the Union with the eradication of slavery and fortunate byproduct. But from the pointy of view of the Confederacy, secession was all about slavery as their own statements show.
She would have to pack on thirty pounds to look like Mrs Lincoln. It made me grind my teeth to watch someone as skinny as Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Todd. Neeson also has the wrong buold for Lincoln. The actor I liked best in the role of Lincoln was Henry Fonda. Although they had to put heavy make-up to make him like like Lincoln in the face. Fonda had about the right build, had the same shambling walk, and even managed Lincoln’s tenor voice.
Vocally, if he were still alive, Walter Brennan would have been perfect for the role, even though he was too short and stumpy to play Lincoln physically.
There has to be a tall high tenor out there who can act.
They say that Mary Todd had a beautiful peaches and cream complexion.
Without a united United States, Germany would have won the First World War.
Had not Davis replaced Johnston with the reckless Hood, Sherman wouldn’t have taken Atlanta, at least not before the election.
Same problem with over-exposure for the guy who played President Palmer on '24'. He now does auto insurance commercials (or something like that). I have to reach for the remote so that my enjoyment (and memory) of '24' isn't ruined.
With all due respect my friend, the poster who started this thread did so to South bash/bait, not to applaud Lincoln or to angst over how Speilberg and Fields treat Lincoln.
This is what Kangaroo lives for....sadly, other than that he’s not so bad.
He could have just worried about Speilberg doing a bad job on Lincoln...unlikely and left all that extra editorial bait which I’m not taking out.
In the interest of the record. I’m ambivalent about Lincoln.
I understand the real world of fighting a war between former partners in a nation and what that means and what he had to do politically to keep his radical wing sated.
I also know he was not really an abolitionist.
And that he would have granted terms to my ancestors far better than his successors did and I scorn Booth for that.
But I also think discussion of Lincoln’s lack of keeping the conflict from progressing to secession/Sumter/invasion and his extra Constitutional adventures are not without merit to review. The Civil War really did not have to happen...a screwy election and hotheads on both sides.
This thread exist to amuse the colonel...I hope he’s having fun..lol
;>)
“Neeson also has the wrong build for Lincoln.”
Well, he has the craggy face, and is tall like Lincoln was. Can’t vouch for what his acting the part will be like, however, I think he can carry it off looks-wise, just like Sally Fields. They need actors who can portray both the younger and the older versions of the Lincolns. Either you hire the younger, thinner, version, or you hire the older, fatter version off the bat. Hollywood always hires the younger, and then ages them through make-up. Although some hire both, and they are played by two sets of actors for each character. But that can be jarring to the story when all of a sudden a different person is playing the character. We’ll see how it looks when it comes out. Spielberg has been at this for a long time and I don’t think he would hire actors he didn’t think could adequately portray his main characters both in looks and ability.
Thank you govt edumacation.
You got pretty close to being exactly right. But I would say that it's more Confederacy bashing than South bashing. I think Southerners were ill-served by the Democrats who led Dixie into secession just as too many black people today are ill-served by their loyalty to the racial conflict inflaming Democratic left. But my mom's family is from Georgia so I just can't go for the broad bashing of southerners that a top-shelf Dixie detractor on Democratic Underground could do.
And I do resent the liberals claiming of Lincoln. I am a fan of Lincoln and the early GOP.
This thread exist to amuse the colonel...I hope he’s having fun..lol
As far as fun, I can't deny I'm one of those who enjoy stirring the pot. :)
But here's a picture of somebody who can remind us all that in the end we're on the same side.
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