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[JenniferL]

Oliver Stone is currently at work on a George W Bush biopic, starring Josh Brolin in the title role. 

 

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Vote2008/Story?id=4563558&page=1

 

In one scene, Bush practices his parachute landing in the White House pool but forgets to properly release the harness and sinks to the bottom. In another scene, Rumsfeld doodles a drawing of Condoleeza Rice standing on a piano with a globe spinning on her finger. During the planning of the war, Bush and his top advisers are shown locking the war-wary Powell out of a room, erupting into laughter when they finally let him in.

 

Other times, Bush's light touch seems blithely out of touch with reality. While he munches on bologna and cheese sandwiches on white bread, he brags to Cheney about how his running time has improved since the Afghanistan invasion.

 

And he compares the troops' ordeal in the deserts of Iraq to his ability to run in 100-degree heat. At one point, Bush describes giving up sweets as "my personal sacrifice to show support for our troops."

 

He interrupts a meeting with Prince Bandar, in which he informs the Saudi ambassador about plans to invade Iraq, so that he can catch the rest of the 2002 Miami Dolphins-Baltimore Ravens playoff game. Bush is later shown choking on a pretzel and passing out during the second quarter.

 

But the film also strives to paint a humanistic portrait of the commander in chief, with Bush once telling the Rev. Billy Graham that "there's this darkness that follows me."

 

"People say I was born with a silver spoon, but they don't know the burden that carries."

 

Soon after a disastrous news conference in April 2004, Bush retreats to the White House den to watch a Texas Rangers game in the final scene of the script.

 

Popping open a nonalcoholic beer, he lapses into his favorite dream: playing center field for the Rangers. Hearing the crack of the bat, he looks up for the ball but he can't find it in the sky.

 

Did...did Paityr write the screen play?

[Justen Diablos]

Bah, perhaps I too will write a story about the golden age that Bush has brought upon us.  Am I better off than I was 8 years ago? Yes I am. Is anyone else? Don't care.  And that is why I'm a Republican. *has no soul*

 

JD,

Yeah, that JD

[Emperor]

And that is why our relationship can only be physical....