Posted on 09/16/2016 1:16:09 PM PDT by Kaslin
The 1993 film Dave was a hilarious comedy about a loathsome President, Bill Mitchell, who has a stroke while sleeping with a woman not his wife, but one of the women who works in the Oval Office. His staffers have only just discovered a likely body double, Dave Kovic, to be deployed at certain public occasions. Both parts were played by Kevin Kline. It remains a wonderful, classic film, the premise outrageous but entertaining and perhaps prescient.
Just after the Dave of the film has been recruited, the President's stroke occurs and Dave is pressed into a broader role than first presented to him. Now he must be the President until the real one recovers. Dave, though, is a regular guy, a really good man, without a shred of arrogance or pretension. He is a talented comic; his part time job has been impersonating the President at parties and for commercials. His real job is a temp agency; he finds work for people. He takes his "role" seriously.
The film was an obvious swipe at Bill Clinton, whose reputation as a womanizer followed him to the White House. Even though the film was made years before Monica Lewinsky worked as an intern at the White House, Clinton's reputation for cheating was well known. He was an Arkansas legend. In the film, Bill Mitchell's wife hates him, for obvious reasons.
It turns out that body doubles for Presidents, Popes, etc. is not just the stuff of comedic fiction. Hillary has had the same body double for twenty-three years! Impersonator Teresa Barnwell. Apparently many famous important people have body doubles. Who knew?
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There was another movie, which I will not name for fear of spoiling it for someone who has not yet seen it, that deals, in part, with the moral quandary of what to do when the body double is assassinated while meeting a foreign dignitary.
Tell us...Please?
Dave’s not here!
Imagine their surprise when the double turned out to be suffering from Parkinsons!
A similar film is the Richard Dreyfuss vehicle “Moon Over Parador”, but the twist is that he is hired to play the part of a South American dictator who has an untimely death, by his minions who don’t want to lose power when the people find out the strongman is toes up.
Moon over Parador.
"The Mad King" by Edgar Rice Burroughs. (1926)
"Prisoner of Zenda"
"The Man in the Iron Mask."
"The Prince and the Pauper."
And countless others.
I don’t know about Laz, but Bubba just might hit the double.
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Hugo Chavez? I think they blew that, but they tried for a while.
It is obvious that the author did not take a close look at the photo’s of Hillary’s double on 9/11 presented as being at Chelsea’s appartment.
The woman in those photo’s was NOT Hillary. Period. No further discussion. I personally doubt they were Teresa either.
And the Hillary campaign lied bald face and stated the photo’s (source unknown) were Hillary.
Since then Teresa has tried to back away from this as if the photos were made up before hand on a previous visit. (note clothes were the same.)
It is all more ComDem Lies.
“a LIKEABLE body double” - Hilarious! She’d be outed in a skinny minute!!
Even two Hillary’s don;t have a fraction of Trump’s energy, class or intelligence
Bill's been hitting on the DOUBLE?
Holy SMOKES, Batman, pass out the Panatela's!
I don’t know if it was a double, or not. But I didn’t think that the clothes fit the same, and the shoes were different. The clothes on the woman with the little girl were rumpled.
I do not think Dave was a swipe at Bill Clinton at all. The film is primarily a modern update of The Prisoner of Zenda. In Zenda, the King has not yet been coronated when he is kidnapped. Two of his loyal retainers recruit a look-alike distant cousin - Rudolph Rassendyll- to impersonate the King. He meets Flavia, the King's betrothed. She is at first cold to Rassendyll because she has met her intended husband the king and finds him to be a drunken jerk. However, Rassendyll is more charming than the King, and is smitten with Flavia, and wins her over.
I'm sure the animosity the wife showed the president in Dave is merely an update of the situation in Zenda. The whole point of it is to create a doomed romantic triangle in which some get hurt, but all do their duty in the end.
Green screen replay might be part of the explanation of the 9/11 video at Chelsea’s apartment. That is a possibility. It is clear that Teresa tried to help Hillary. I don’t believe Teresa was in NY that day, but they have old ties.
BUT, it is a fact that the campaign staff said at the time it was Hillary who spoke with the young lady. It was not in the video we saw on 9/11.
So, regardless of the details of the real truth about the event, Hillary tried to lie her way out of the health collapse. There is nothing that she and her minions will not do to get her elected. She knows what follows if Trump is elected. She will no longer have a blank get out of jail card and a lot of her friends will go to jail. She has already said she knows.
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