On Oliver Stone's next project "Bush"....

[Aviation Pro]

I wonder if there's going to be a scene where the actor portraying President Insane is maniacally pumping his ellipitical machine or mountain bike while shouting, "Air Assault! Air Assault! Air Assault!" with a crazed look on his face.

[Atman]

1. I'd rather see Sharon Stone's Bush.

HDTV and a copy of "Fatal Attraction" ought to do the trick.

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[jgraz]

2. Josh Brolin is reportedly going to play the Chimpmeister

Didn't his dad do that role on The West Wing?

[enid602]

3. ???????

Does that mean Barbra will play Barbara?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. I didn't know that Oliver Stone could direct comedies

[truedelphi]

5. Won't it be hard to portray a man who has all this material power

And no brain power?

I think that for me, Lewis Black's portrayal of Bush suffices quite nicely.

How you could pull off a two hour movie of someone with no affect, unless it was all subtitled (Subtitles needed here: Bush meant to say foetus, not feces, Bush meant to say Food *for* your family, not on your family, etc)

[pansypoo53219]

6. i shall continue my vow to never EVER

see an oliver stone movie. so far, so good.

[orleans]

7. ug. didn't stone go soft along the way? so this will be just

another puff piece with only a couple chunks of red meat to appease the bush-haters and the rest neutral as hell so when republikas go to see it they can say: "see? bush wasn't all that bad"

and then whatever neutrality is told in the story will go down in the publics mental history as fact. twenty years from now kids in high school will be required to see it and learn about how george was a man with good intentions, the republicans really tried to do the right thing, the country and the world didn't suffer as much as the liberal media claimed, things weren't that bad, it was only a little war, economy and free market were so important that they had to let the environment suffer just a little bit, new orleans was really an accident and they tried hard to make things better there, etc etc

jesus. i need another cup of coffee.

i'm in a bad/low/foul mental state this morning, aren't i?

on edit: just found this:

"One need only Google the words "Stone" and "Bush" to find plenty of the director's critical comments about the Bush administration's invasion of Iraq. Despite that, the director said he's not looking to make an anti-Bush polemic. His goal is to use seminal events in Bush's life to explain how he came to power, using a structure comparable to "The Queen."

"It's a behind-the-scenes approach, similar to 'Nixon,' to give a sense of what it's like to be in his skin," Stone told Daily Variety. "But if 'Nixon' was a symphony, this is more like a chamber piece, and not as dark in tone. People have turned my political ideas into a cliche, but that is superficial. I'm a dramatist who is interested in people, and I have empathy for Bush as a human being, much the same as I did for Castro, Nixon, Jim Morrison, Jim Garrison and Alexander the Great."More than one option(Co) Daily Variety
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http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117979349.html?categoryid=10&cs=1

I have empathy for Bush as a human being,
I have empathy for Bush as a human being,
I have empathy for Bush as a human being,
I have empathy for Bush as a human being,
I have empathy for Bush as a human being,
I have empathy for Bush as a human being,
I have empathy for Bush as a human being,
I have empathy for Bush as a human being,
I have empathy for Bush as a human being,
I have empathy for Bush as a human being,
I have empathy for Bush as a human being,
I have empathy for Bush as a human being,
I have empathy for Bush as a human being,
I have empathy for Bush as a human being,


as i first said: ug.