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Will Oliver Stone's Bush Movie Be Stupid Or Serious?
Here's the new teaser trailer for Oliver Stone's under-anticipated biopic of our dim president's early years, W.. Josh Brolin plays the young, hedonistic Bush whose dreams of wearing tuxedo t-shirts to state dinners and not routing dictators are dashed after papa (James Cromwell) chides him for being an entitled wastrel and tells him to grow the hell up. Judging by the arch soundtrack ("What a Wonderful World") and goofy close-ups, we shouldn't expect too deep of a psychological investigation. The only conflict Stone's Dubya would ever call "Oedipal" is deciding whether to eat dog food as part of his frat hazing ritual. More »
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Oliver Stone Thinks Bush Will Like His Damning Biopic
Oliver Stone's upcoming movie about the life of President George W. Bush, W., paints the awful man as a sniveling Daddy's Boy who was so brow-beaten and dismissed by his old man that his entire adult life has been dedicated to disproving the elder Bush's low opinion of him. However, Stone thinks this faithful accuracy will actually appeal to the Bush Clan and the handful of wing-nuts who still support them. "Stone, [the film's star Josh] Brolin and the filmmaking team believe they are crafting a biography so honest that loyal Republicans and the Bushes themselves might see it. Given Stone's filmmaking history, coupled with a sneak peek at an early 'W.' screenplay draft, that prediction looks like wishful thinking." More »
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Fashion Jew Not To Be Trusted, Says Post
- David Lauren, the Jewish fashion scion barred from Jenna Bush's wedding, hit on some other woman while girlfriend Lauren Bush was at the nuptials, so grandpa and grandma Bush were totally right about him being a non-commital dirty old man, according to the right-leaning Post. This piece of gossip sounds like a total slam dunk. [P6]
- Leven Rambin of All My Childen reportedly threw herself at actor Shia LaBeouf and everything turned out "just as she hoped it would." [Daily News]
- Lexus offered Paul McCartney an environmentally friendly hybrid limousine, and he accepted, because he didn't realize the vehicle would be sent to him by airplane, "creating a carbon footprint almost 100 times bigger than if it was shipped." [Showbiz Spy]
- Freedom hater Oliver Stone's critical George W. Bush biopic? Totally funded by the Chinese, Germans and, worst of all, AUSTRALIANS. [P6]
- Beyoncé, who married fellow musician Jay-Z just over a month ago, is now pregnant, supposedly. An associate figured this out when she gained some weight and did not do the "Def Jam detox," whatever that means. [P6]
- Anne Hathaway's Italian boyfriend is off the hook for writing a $215,000 check against an account with just $39.08 in it, so she can stop crying to the police about it. [P6]
- Rapper Remy Ma's fiancée Papoose tried to sneak a handcuff key into their jailhouse wedding but was caught, so no ceremony was allowed. Def Jam detox time! [P6]
- On Britney Spears' latest How I Met Your Mother cameo: "The fact that Britney’s second guest spot really didn’t work was no fault of hers. She’s not at all bad at playing clunkily-sweetly dumb... But the script was an awful piece of specialty construction." [People]
- The headline is sufficient: "Pete Doherty Sought Help After Trying To Kill Cat With Shovel." [Showbiz Spy]
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W Script: "Don't Get Cute Turdblossom, This Is Serious."
The Hollywood Reporter posted the first scene of the widely-leaked script to Oliver Stone's George W. Bush biopic, W, which is about to start filming. Reading it, it's easy to see why some historians are calling the film an inaccurate caricature. It's hard to imagine even Bush, not to mention Dick Cheney, seeming like as much of a strutting fraternity brother as he does at the end of this White House scene: More »
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Frat House President
Oliver Stone's George W. Bush biopic, W, is at times more like a Saturday Night Live skit than history, according to some Bush biographers who reviewed the script on behalf of the Hollywood Reporter. "It leaves with the impression that the White House is run as fraternity house with no reverence for hierarchy, the office itself or for the implications of policy," one said. What left that impression? Was it the part where Bush and his buddies locked Colin Powell out of a room as prank, or when Bush rearranges his presidential schedule based on what's on ESPN, or the scene where he practices a parachute landing in the White House pool? More »
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Oliver Stone To Direct Terrible Movie About Terrible President
Oliver Stone is hoping to direct a film based on the life and presidency of George W. Bush. "Here, I'm the referee, and I want a fair, true portrait of the man," Stone insists. "How did Bush go from an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the world?" Laconic, stoic Josh Brolin is attached to play our smirky, snickering President, but you needn't worry too much about inappropriate casting—everyone looks embarrassed and lost in modern Oliver Stone movies. [Variety]
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Remainders: Tomorrow Is the Fifth Anniversary of the Day After 9/11
• The true heroes of September the 11th: those brave souls who manufacture and sell us ridiculous collectibles. [Zulkey]• Oliver Stone considers a second 9/11 movie. Awesome, because we need more of that great shit. [The Reeler]
• The Taliban celebrates, making Anderson Cooper run a little more than he's comfortable with. [You Tube]
• Adding to the Road to 9/11 docudrama controversy: those bastards didn't even film in the U-S-of-A. [Swanky Beast] More »
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Gossip Roundup: Rosie O'Donnell Roots for Hot Co-Host
• The View producers announce that they will not search for an official replacement for Star Jones until after September 5, once Rosie O'Donnell plops down on her chair. Meanwhile, O'Donnell is blogging in favor of American Idol finalist Kellie Pickler, who co-hosted yesterday. Yeah, she's real pretty, isn't she, Rosie? [Lowdown (2nd item)]• Paris Hilton taunts Lindsay Lohan with unsubtle snickering; Lohan manages not to go apeshit. Such remarkable restraint can only mean that Lohan actually took a day off from the marching powder. [Page Six]
• Diana Bianchi, the 19-year-old mistress of Peter Cook (estranged husband to aging supermodel Christie Brinkley), never asked Cook to leave Brinkley for her. She was happy with quiet, complacent fucking. [TMZ]
• And of course, this is not the first time Cook has dipped his toes in the barely legal pool. [Fox 411]
• Oliver Stone likes hallucinogenic drugs. Big surprise there — we all saw Alexander, unfortunately. [R&M]
• After alleging that her ex-fiancee, Sopranos star Vincent "Big Pussy" Pastore, beat the crap out of her, Lisa Regina held a reading for her book on domestic violence and invited the entire Sopranos cast. Alas, no one showed, lest they too get a gear shift in the face. [Page Six]
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Gossip roundup
· Oliver Stone's pro-Fidel Castro documentary has been bumped by the Tribeca Film Festival. [Page Six]· Courtney Love in Rolling Stone: "I've never dated a guy with brown eyes, except for [Bush's] Gavin Rossdale,...I don't know if I've even fucked a dark-haired guy in my power years—since 1989. Pre-1989, I pretty much fucked everybody. But it was because I had to get breakfast somehow." [Page Six]
· NBC's reality series about the opening of a Rocco di Spirito eatery, "The Restaurant," will air at the end of July. [Page Six]
· Restaurateur Jeffrey Chodorow co-owns what used to be the nightclub Chaos at 225 East Houston and is now the "Manhattan Gentleman's Club" strip joint. [NY Daily News]
