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Joan Didion To Pen HBO Biopic of Katharine Graham

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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
11/15/08

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katharine graham is my hero. she made watergate, the newspaper story, happen -- she gave the freedom to the guys who told the truth. and she was the first girl publisher, even if her father did give the paper to her husband and she had to wait until he killed himself.
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
11/15/08

In reply to Joan Didion To Pen HBO Biopic of Katharine Graham
I quite enjoyed the book and I like Didion's writing so there's a win/win.

Note to producers: do not cast Helen Hunt as KG. I've had my fill of her limited bag of tricks now, thank you.
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downlow
11/15/08

@Banjo Kitten: Note to any producer for any project ever: do not cast Helen Hunt for any role ever because she annoys the fuck out of me and she can't act.

But seriously is there a reason why they would cast HH?
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
11/16/08

@downlow: the photo of KG above plus that forced gravitas of Important Actress Hunt could possibly equal The Role of a Lifetime as a Publishing Giant. No.
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SkidooNevada
11/15/08

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This is a sympathy f*ck and a way to throw some money at Didion, who's far from rich. She's never written a script solo. Graham was made more interesting by Truman Capote. I wonder how the pressman's strike, which she broke, will be portrayed---it's not exactly a triumph for labor.

I'll bet it never airs.
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PandoraSpocks
11/16/08

@SkidooNevada: She's never written a script solo...

If John were around he'd be the first person to tell you she can do anything with narrative and with words. Oh, and to go fuck yourself.
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Un Chien Andalou
11/15/08

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"Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before? "

JD
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Un Chien Andalou
11/15/08

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"To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference."

JD
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Baroness
11/15/08

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No mention of Panic in Needle Park? Her first screenplay with Dunne I believe, scorching 70's junkie heroin-addict junkie drama with junkie Al Pacino. Bleak, scorching, makes you just want to give up on humanity. Attagirl, Joanie!

PS. She looks fat in that picture.
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Tremonius
11/15/08

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I have this secret notion I can't tell anybody about which rates Henry Miller and that Bukowski guy as openers, because most folks buy their works because they're vulgar and irreverent and also encourage the reader that maybe even he can be a writer. See, writers alone have this delusional capacity; they can't read any better than they write so they fool themselves into thinking they can do both. I doubt if anybody thinks they can shrill five octaves like Mariah Carey.

Joan Didion is a closer. You read the White Album or Slouching ... and you know right away not to draw down your 401(k). I think maybe that's why she's not more popular than Henry Miller, who only talked through his fingers, let's be honest.
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Social Crimer
11/15/08

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...the most depressing movie since Atom Egoyan killed a bus full of schoolchildren in The Sweet Hereafter.

A.C., I think I'm in love with your brand of dark humor. Thank you and please keep it coming.
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freewrite
11/15/08

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I hate to get all nit-picky, but I think you mean "since deceased."
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Alex Carnevale
11/15/08

@freewrite:

I appreciate it.
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GirlyWhirl
11/15/08

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Joan Didion is adorable in that photo.

Not that it's very related, but HBO's "John Adams" series was by far one of the best things I watched this past year. They need to find a role for Paul Giamatti in this project.
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