you had other priorities.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 31 March 2008 13:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Soon after a disastrous news conference in April 2004, Bush retreats to the White House den to watch a Texas Rangers game in the final scene of the script.
Popping open a nonalcoholic beer, he lapses into his favorite dream: playing center field for the Rangers. Hearing the crack of the bat, he looks up for the ball but he can't find it in the sky. ABC News
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Years later, after Dubya drains a pint of Wild Turkey and runs over a pile of trash cans while driving home, his angry father tells him to call Alcoholics Anonymous, prompting Dubya to sarcastically deride his dad as "Mr. Perfect. Mr. War Hero. Mr F-- God Almighty."
― and what, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link
i am first in line for this
this is gonna be like that made-for-tv movie where cybill shepherd plays martha stewart x10000000
― and what, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Clearly that scene was written by someone that hates baseball.
― David R., Tuesday, 1 April 2008 16:14 (sixteen years ago) link
"early screenplay," don't expect to see everything there... But we need an Ari Fleischer! Jeremy Piven or Jason Alexander?
In one scene, Bush practices his parachute landing in the White House pool but forgets to properly release the harness and sinks to the bottom. In another scene, Rumsfeld doodles a drawing of Condoleeza Rice standing on a piano with a globe spinning on her finger....
He interrupts a meeting with Prince Bandar, in which he informs the Saudi ambassador about plans to invade Iraq, so that he can catch the rest of the 2002 Miami Dolphins-Baltimore Ravens playoff game. Bush is later shown choking on a pretzel and passing out during the second quarter.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
stoked
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
-- and what, Tuesday, April 1, 2008 4:12 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
me too haha
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Larry David as Ari Fleischer!!!
-- David R., Thursday, March 27, 2008 1:02 PM
― David R., Tuesday, 1 April 2008 16:20 (sixteen years ago) link
there's gonna be nothing in this about his helping run his daddy's campaigns and becoming a serious political operative, rite? didn't think so.
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 16:20 (sixteen years ago) link
hey, let's list bald jews
Piven's a good pick
anyone think they might have a screening of this at the white house?
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link
if they do i'm so going!!!
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd like to see the scene where Hunter S. Thompson pulls him out of an empty bathtub and throws him out of his hotel room.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 16:23 (sixteen years ago) link
"The first time I noticed George W Bush was when he passed out in my bathtub at the Hyatt Regency in Houston. He was with a guy who had come to sell -- Look, I'm not going to put this next sentence on the record. Let's just say that 'a friend of mine' was buying cocaine. I have friends in Houston from all walks of life. Lawyers. Professional men. Bush was hanging around with this crowd of what you might call gilded coke dilettantes. I remember Bush as a kind of a butt-boy for the smart people. This was in the late 1970s, when he was in his drunken-fool period. He couldn't handle liquor. He knew who I was, at that time, because I had a reputation as a writer. I knew he was part of the Bush dynasty. But he was nothing, he offered nothing, and he promised nothing. He had no humour. He was insignificant in every way and consequently I didn't pay much attention to him. But when he passed out in my bathtub, then I noticed him. I'd been in another room, talking to the bright people. I had to have him taken away."
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 16:25 (sixteen years ago) link
god this is going to be so awesome
Piven would be great as Fleischer, good call
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 16:27 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www-tc.pbs.org/newshour/extra/road_taken/images/fleischer_young.jpg?Log=0
"Let's play another prank on Dwight!"
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Andy Samberg!
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link
who should play fleischer's crazy "lbj did it" dad?
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Tracer, do you have a link?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Hunter S. Thompson muses about Richard Nixon and 9/11
― and what, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 17:01 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^love that article
― omar little, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 17:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I ain't playing that game, thanks.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 17:06 (sixteen years ago) link
via Cinematical:
Jeffrey Wright is reportedly in negotiations to play Colin Powell, Tommy Lee Jones is supposedly being sought for Donald Rumsfeld, Robert Duvall has been rumored to be the choice for Vice President Dick Cheney and now both Paul Giamatti and Toby Jones are being named as potentials for the part of Karl Rove (who Giamatti may have already channeled for his character in Shoot 'Em Up).
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link
So PSH has said no to Rove, then.
― suzy, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 18:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't say I like any of those casting choices
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 18:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I shouldn't have clicked on that link.
― Nicole, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 18:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I didn't know Rummy & Cheney had been in both the Ford Administration and Lonesome Dove
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
my gf's dad is gonna be in this
/max
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 19:38 (sixteen years ago) link
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2008/04/thompson_to_pla.html
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 22:30 (sixteen years ago) link
The Bush administration is coming together -- and adding a key ally for good measure.
Oliver Stone has found the actress to play Condoleezza Rice in his upcoming "W," with Thandie Newton in final negotiations to star as the National Security Advisor-turned-Secretary of State.
Meanwhile, Ioan Gruffudd is in final talks to play former British prime minister Tony Blair.
― gershy, Sunday, 6 April 2008 04:39 (sixteen years ago) link
yer too good for condi, thandie <3 <3 <3
http://images.celebscentral.net/images/celebrities/thandienewton/20.jpg
― gershy, Sunday, 6 April 2008 04:41 (sixteen years ago) link
HAHA, ALL-HOTTED-UP CAST
― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 6 April 2008 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Thandie Newton is way too young to play Condi. Couldn't he have gotten someone like Alfre Woodard?
― jaymc, Monday, 7 April 2008 22:43 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i1155cb8195120add876286155ef704a6
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 04:02 (sixteen years ago) link
http://gawker.com/assets/images/gawker/2008/04/Picture%2029-1.jpg
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 14:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Real men of genius.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 14:56 (sixteen years ago) link
hahahaha
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Rob Corddry as Ari! OK, this shit is getting weird now,
http://www.cinematical.com/2008/04/09/rob-corddry-is-ari-fleischer-in-stones-w/
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 10 April 2008 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
wait is this supposed to be a comedy or not
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 10 April 2008 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
no matter what its supposed to be it is going to be LAFFS
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 10 April 2008 20:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I mean, the Nixon movie had some chuckles, but how straight can the Fleischer scenes be with that casting? It'll be big-budget Daily Show.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 10 April 2008 20:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Maybe Stone'll have Corrdry do something dramatic to show that He Is Serious -- shoot a mugger, abort a baby, pay for Maalox w/ cash instead of a Visa Check Card, etc.
― David R., Thursday, 10 April 2008 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Fleischer press conferences were already comedy routines anyway
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 10 April 2008 21:09 (sixteen years ago) link
ya - seems fitting.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 10 April 2008 21:12 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20198476,00.html
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 8 May 2008 19:03 (sixteen years ago) link
That make-up's kinda scary.
― David R., Thursday, 8 May 2008 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Tough Talker Bush, 26, drunk-drives his car onto the lawn of his parents' D.C. home, and challenges his dad to a fight, ''Let's go mano a mano! Right here. Right now!'' Then, in 2003, when France fails to back the U.S. on its invasion of Iraq, Bush says of French president Jacques Chirac, ''I'd like to stuff a plate of freedom fries down that slick piece of s---'s throat.''
Practical Joker During a prep meeting on Iraq, Bush playfully locks Colin Powell out of the room. He then steals a mint from Condoleezza Rice and tells Paul Wolfowitz to trim his ear hair.
― max, Thursday, 8 May 2008 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link