Movie about "slightly scary" Judy MILLER transforms her into sizzling sexpot & REAL JOURNALIST!!1 [View All]

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As for WHICH is the more incredible, "sizzling sexpot" or "real journalist"...





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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/24/AR2007102402690.html

Hollywood Plugs Its Tale of a Leak
Flick Glams Up the Story Of Jailed Journalist Judith Miller

By William Booth
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 25, 2007; Page C01

MEMPHIS -- What Hollywood is calling "the Judith Miller movie" is now filming on location here, but prepare yourselves: Some changes are being made to the story inspired by the outing of a CIA agent.

For starters, in the movie Judith Miller is no longer Judith Miller of the New York Times, but Rachel Armstrong of the Washington Capital Sun. And while the real Judith Miller may be remembered as a stylish, slightly scary reporter of 59, headed off to jail in a quilted black jacket and tortoise-frame sunglasses, in the movie she is a sizzling Kate Beckinsale, 34, dressed in a, shall we say, form-fitting skirt. ....

In the movie -- surprise! -- journalists are good, decent, honest and somewhat retro. Like Robert Redford in "All the President's Men," which is one of Lurie's favorite films. Rachel/Kate is a crusading investigative reporter, says Lurie, a former entertainment journalist, "and we do put journalism in a favorable light." (Lurie previously directed "The Contender" with Joan Allen and was the executive producer of the TV show "Commander in Chief" with Geena Davis.) ....

In Hollywood, everybody gets an injection of youth. So in the movie the outed spook is played by Vera Farmiga, 34, whose breakout role was in last year's "The Departed." Her ambassador husband is played by Jamey Sheridan of the TV show "Law & Order: Criminal Intent." From a brief snippet of unedited film, we can tell you that Farmiga plays her spy as one tough cookie who is fluent in profanity. She accuses Rachel Armstrong of being "a toady for the administration." The Judith Miller character also gets a husband, a professional novelist (he writes thrillers about the Mossad) played by David Schwimmer, formerly of "Friends." ....

For his part, (Noah) Wyle sat down with constitutional law expert and professor Floyd Abrams, who argued for Miller and the New York Times in the leak case. Abrams is serving as a technical adviser on the film and will play the role of a judge. They talked First Amendment and Abrams's recollections of what Miller went through. "In my little circle in California," Wyle says, "she wasn't exactly the symbol of the bastion of free expression. . . . She was more the apologist for the administration." But Wyle says the film doesn't really go there. ....

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