It’s always hard to hold back the expletives when reading Cindy Adams, but this time, I just can’t hold back anymore: what the **** is she talking about? An excerpt from today’s offending column:
You’ve maybe heard about W., Oliver Stone’s tough feature film about Bush…First-ever movie about a sitting president, shooting in Shreveport, La., is so hush-hush secret that all scripts are embargoed… So do not ask - do not - how one is now in my own sticky fingers.
She acknowledges that we’ve “maybe heard” about this movie, but neglects to mention that the reason why we’ve heard about it is because she’s like the tenth person to get her “sticky fingers” on some version of the script. That “hush-hush” line is completely laughable. Is there *any* film in recent memory that has been reported on so extensively by the mainstream news, gossip and entertainment media before it even starts shooting? And all without a single spoiler alert!
Anyway. Most of the “hush-hush” details that Adams passes along are familiar from other W script stories: the fights between George Bush Sr and Jr; W’s bumbling efforts to fly a plane; the marginalization of Colin Powell; the crack about Wolfowitz’s hairy ears. At this point, by the time the movie’s actually in theaters (just five months away!), we’ll all be able to shout the biggest zingers back to the screen. Hell, maybe that’s the point––maybe Oliver Stone is making the Rocky Horror Picture Show of political satire. Carry on then!
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