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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 09:39 AM
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"Highlights" from an early draft of Oliver Stone's "W"

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20198476_6,00.html

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TALES FROM THE SCRIPT
Stone and co-writer Stanley Weiser are still polishing the W script. Judging from an early draft, though, the movie will be darkly funny — at Bush's expense. Highlights:

Oedipal Wreck After his father is elected president, Bush tells Laura, ''I'll never get out of Poppy's shadow.... I wish he'd LOST.... No matter what I do, it's never going to be good enough.''

Tough Talker Bush, 26, drunk-drives his car onto the lawn of his parents' D.C. home, and challenges his dad to a fight, ''Let's go mano a mano! Right here. Right now!'' Then, in 2003, when France fails to back the U.S. on its invasion of Iraq, Bush says of French president Jacques Chirac, ''I'd like to stuff a plate of freedom fries down that slick piece of s---'s throat.''

Practical Joker During a prep meeting on Iraq, Bush playfully locks Colin Powell out of the room. He then steals a mint from Condoleezza Rice and tells Paul Wolfowitz to trim his ear hair.

Man of Faith In 1999, Bush confesses to a televangelist, ''The truth is, I really don't want to run .... But I feel that God wants me to do this, and I must do it. I MUST.''

Brother in Arms In a 2003 sit-down with Saudi ambassador Prince Bandar, Bush explains that he has given up sweets since the beginning of the Iraq war. ''This is my personal sacrifice to show support for our troops,'' he says.
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BrklynLib at work Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 09:44 AM
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1. It is impossible to make a real asshole look like anything but a real asshole.
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peace frog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 10:36 AM
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6. Yep, can't polish a turd
but Oliver Stone expects us to watch him try. Fat fucking chance!
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 09:45 AM
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2. You know I lived thru 8 years of this - I'm not paying $10 to relive it
Edited on Thu May-08-08 09:46 AM by LynneSin
I know it's not a pro-Bush movie, but this just isn't appealling to me at all. After the elections I'll want to do everything feasible to erase Bush's existance from my mind and hopefully from what he's done to this country.

But I do find it interesting that Barbara Striesand's stepson Josh Brolin is playing the part of W. And James Cromwell, another liberal minded person, is doing Bush Sr.
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AndyA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 09:58 AM
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3. I agree 100%.
Once his sorry ass is out of the White House, I don't want to see or hear anything from him or of him again, unless it's testifying before Congress about his illegal actions as pResident.

I don't want to see movies, interviews, books for sale in book stores with his disgusting mug on them, documentaries about him, or anything else.

I don't want to hear about where he's moving, what he's going to do with his spare time, what Laura is doing, what his tramp slut daughters are doing, etc.

Except for appearances during legal proceedings, I want him to disappear from my memory, and I'll be doing everything possible to block him out.
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TooBigaTent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 10:14 AM
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4. Totally agree. We have all suffered so much from this asshole and his cronies
that the idea of reliving it seems pretty sick.

This may be useful for those too stupid to recognize what has happened over the last eight years, but for anyone with active synapses, it would just be a session of torture. And those who still support the Shrub would never go to see this.

Kind of the same thing as the movie about the Iraq war, and Sicko, and the others detailing the crimes and atrocities of the BFEE. Lived through it - cannot see paying to experience it again.
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Snarkturian Clone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 10:21 AM
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5. After "Any Given Sunday",
Oliver Stone should be barred from making ANY film, let alone one about W.
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