Fri, 10 Dec 2004
The horror, the horror ...
I'm off to visit relatives tomorrow, back Monday night.
GLASSHOUSE is progressing slowly, but progressing.
Meanwhile, I thought I'd leave you with a parting shot, dredged
from the depths of the New York Post by way of various places in
the blogosphere: Oliver Stone is threatening to make a new movie.
The NYP original article is hard to locate, but I feel this
extract from King of
Zembia's blog needs reposting by way of underscoring the
flee for the hills message:
From Page Six of the NY Post, courtesy of Zemblan patriot J.D.:
"Oliver Stone plans to explore the possibility of an affair
between former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and
President Ronald Reagan in his next movie. Stone has
apparently always been enamored of Baroness Thatcher, now
79, and wants to cast Meryl Streep in the role in an
upcoming biopic, reports the London Sun. An insider told the
paper Stone decided to turn his lens on a famous woman after
his string of movies about famous men, including Richard
Nixon, JFK, Jim Morrison and Fidel Castro."
We're told that Stone is contractually obligated to deliver
an R-rated theatrical cut, alas, but the eventual DVD
release is sure to contain a treasure trove of
Reagan-Thatcher love scenes that were too steamy to make it
past the MPAA. Studio executives are already bracing for
controversy over one sequence in the script, in which the
Iron Lady asks the Great Communicator what he would do to
"liberate the Falklands," and he shows her. At length.
Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in a steamy affair with -- no,
let's not go there, okay? Let's not. (Exit an Author,
Stage Left, Whimpering faintly.)
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