The White House doesn’t want another Recount
There’s something especially satisfying about a can’t-miss proposition that doesn’t — partly because so many hugely ballyhooed “sure things” instead land with ignominious splats. A splat is precisely what does not happen with HBO’s “Recount,” an electrifying slapstick tragedy about a mad moment in American politics, a moment that must never happen again but easily could.
An estimable assemblage of talents come together to revisit the bangs and whimpers that brought the 2000 presidential election to a herky-jerky, ludicrous close and installed George W. Bush rather than Al Gore in the White House. It was a flash that went by in a blur, so stupefyingly surrealistic that it seemed it couldn’t really be happening. But it was, it really was, and the results still reverberate.
- From Washington Post
Oliver Stone movie on Bush set for October release
Director Oliver Stone has landed a distribution deal with independent studio Lionsgate to get an upcoming film about President George W. Bush into U.S. theaters in October, shortly before the presidential election.
The political biography, to be called “W” and featuring “No Country for Old Men” star Josh Brolin as Bush, is slated to begin shooting in Louisiana on Monday, Lionsgate said on Friday.
Lionsgate is the distributor behind director Michael Moore’s commercially successful political documentaries “Fahrenheit 9/11″ and “Sicko.”
The film will open on October 17 in North America, said Lionsgate, which also will distribute the movie in Britain, Australia and New Zealand.
- From Reuters
What’s on genius George Bush’s iPod?
“Put it in my pocket, got the ear things on.”