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lord vader · Site Joined: 31 Jul 2007 Posts: 2797 Location: scotland

is it the right or left stone in the bush

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Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 7945

Yep babe at least they are talking which is something..I can't see the Oscars happening though unless something major happens

Probably both Sta...

at different times

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Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 7945

Hollywood Reporter has an interesting 3 page piece about Oliver Stone's forthcoming DubYa biography. They sent the film's script out to a bunch of Bush biographers for reactions...which were mixed.

President George W. Bush is a foul-mouthed, reformed drunk obsessed with baseball, Saddam Hussein and a conflicted relationship with his dad. Or at least that's how he's portrayed in the script for Oliver Stone's upcoming feature "W."

"It leaves you with the impression that the White House is run as a fraternity house with no reverence for hierarchy, the office itself or for the implications of policy," said Robert Draper, author of "Dead Certain: The Presidency of George Bush."
"Everybody calling everybody else nicknames and chatting about whether to go to war as if they were chatting about how to bet on a football game really misses the mark of how many White Houses, including this one, are run."

Jacob Weisberg ("The Bush Tragedy") was skeptical about Stone's claim that he wants to make "a fair, true portrait" of Bush.
"His saying he is going to be fair to Bush is like Donald Trump saying he is going to be modest," Weisberg quipped.

"W," which is set to begin filming in Shreveport, La., with Bill Block's QED financing a budget of about $30 million, stars Josh Brolin and James Cromwell as Bush 43 and 41, respectively. The film is being closely watched in entertainment and political circles, in part because Stone has said his goal is to release it while Bush is still in office and possibly in time for the November election.

In the script -- then titled "Bush" -- the president's policy judgments are often manipulated by his White House staff, a depiction several of the biographers said did not ring true.

"The problem here is it goes to this notion of Bush as being the passive receiver of policy and the White House being run by (Dick) Cheney, (Donald) Rumsfeld, (Karl) Rove and others," Draper said. "Bush's adversaries have been ill-served by this belief that Bush is an observer to his own presidency. This notion that his schedule is driven by what's on ESPN is ludicrous."

Well I guess they were never going to be positive

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Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 5323

Another addition to the cast....Scott Glen's playing Donald Rumsfeld. I wish I could say it was perfect casting but I can't remember what Rumsfeld was like

Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 7945

It is really good casting..I don't think he is that far away lookswise ....here's a pic babe....

Glenn

Rumsfield
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Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 5323

He's got the look of him alright and he'll look even more so with the glasses on.....good casting!

Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 7945

Yep when they do his hair and make-up and glasses I reckon he will look very like Rumsfield ...(I always hated Rumsfield

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Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 5323

Scott Glen always looks quiet but he has an aura of "don't mess with me" about him so he's perfect for the role!

Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 7945

Yeah your right he does and Rumsfield definitely had that....in fact he was an ignorant arrogant git if you all recall at the time before the Iraq war
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Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 7945

Richard Dreyfuss is in final negotiations to play Dick Cheney in Oliver Stone's upcoming "W" reports Reuters.

The role is the last major position in the Bush administration to be filled; the West Wing is already occupied by the likes of Josh Brolin (President Bush), Thandie Newton (Condoleezza Rice) and Elizabeth Banks (Laura Bush).

Shooting begins this month in Shreveport, Louisiana with an October release planned.

Another good casting there I think

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