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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 05:54 AM
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Let's do the Casting for the Movie about bush's downfall
you know someday soon, they will make a major production movie about dubya and his rise and fall and disgrace. who will play the principle parts?

the hardest to cast would be dubya himself. that comedian on the tonight show is excellent, and looks like him, but i doubt he has the proper drama chops.

whoever plays him, has to have a wide range of emotions. drunkeness, drug crazed, giddy, stupid, enraged, awkward, and an asshole all at once. and the vast array of w facial expressions has to be done to a T.

halle berry for condi rice!
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 06:00 AM
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1. Tom Hanks for the role of the chimp.
He played Forest Gump he can play Bush.
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No Mandate Here. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 06:04 AM
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2. Anyone who plays * will be at a disadvantage,
There won't be many examples of live question and answers to learn from.

"I'll come up with an answer soon. It's tough under the pressure of a news conference."

This will be looked upon as the beginning of the wake up call for a lot of Murikans.
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 06:15 AM
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7. Playing Bush shouldn't be too hard.
After all what is Bush? He's a cross between Forest Gump and Hanibal Lecter.
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Bombtrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 06:08 AM
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3. Hugh Grant as John Kerry, Brian Dennehy as Ted Kennedy
Edited on Mon Jun-14-04 06:26 AM by Bombtrack
Richard Dreyfuss as Richard Clarke. Jason Schwartzman as Ari Fleischer
John Spencer(Leo on the west wing) as Rumsfeld, Joe Montegna as George Tenet.
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gottaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 06:09 AM
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4. chops

Bush: William H. Macy
Powell: Forest Whitaker
Rumsfeld: Christopher Walken
Wolfowitz: Sean Penn
Rice: Angela Basset
Tenet: Alec Baldwin


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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 06:13 AM
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5. william macy...YES
dead on choice, with make up.
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punpirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 06:13 AM
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6. Okay, for what it's worth....
Bush: Timothy Bottoms
Cheney: Peter Boyle
Rove: Matt Damon (after consumption of several hundred cream puffs)
Bush, Sr.: Hunter S. Thompson
Barbara Bush: Robert Prosky
Jenna Bush: Britney Spears
Jenna's sister Barbara: Nancy Sinatra
Robert Novak: Bela Lugosi
James Baker: Buck Henry
Scott McClellan: Buck Henry (after sharing some of Damon's cream puffs)
Chief of Staff Myers: Sterling Hayden (dead? well, dig his ass up)
Rumsfeld: Nosferatu
Ashcroft: W.C. Fields
Powell: Step `n Fetchit
Condoleezza Rice: Buckwheat
Pickles: Herself
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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 06:16 AM
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8. that large guy from jurassic park could do rove
and i think lugosi is dead. but you never know

stepinfetchit......crack me up
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punpirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 06:33 AM
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11. I'm missing something...
... never saw "Jurassic Park."

Yeah, Lugosi's dead... perfect match....

Forgot, John Bolton: Moe Howard

Richard Perle: Anthony Hopkins (with the right make-up)

Dennis Hastert: Orson Welles (well, the tubby, elderly Orson Welles)

Tom DeLay: Jack Nicholson

Bill Frist: Anthony Perkins

Orrin Hatch: Howdy Doody




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progdonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 08:38 AM
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16. excellent!
Yes, Wayne Knight aka "Newman" as Karl Rove. "Hello... Rove."

Unfortunately, he's lost about 100 pounds since then; as I remember, it was without that gastric bypass stuff to boot. So, at his Jurassic Park size, he would have been perfect, but he's too athletic now.
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 08:51 AM
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17. that's great!
Prosky as Bar.....LOL!

I'd have Rove be played by Phillip Seymour Hoffman (wouldn't have to budget the cream puffs!).....and include shades of his role in 'Happiness'....}(

Bill Murray as Rumsfeld!
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Kanary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 06:23 AM
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9. Who'll write the screenplay?
An important consideration. This whole episode has been so bad, we have to make sure the younger generation *really* "gets it", and learns a life-long lesson about tending to the important business of our nation to prevent more occurances of this. Who can write such a compelling drama?

Ok, but no pressure........ :)

Kanary
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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 06:25 AM
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10. oliver stone for director
it would have to be based on the real bush. a movie about reagan was made for cbs last year, but outrage cancelled it. i wonder if they'll show it now? it was based on the REAL reagan.
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punpirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 06:37 AM
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12. Nah, nah, nah...
... this is definitely Mamet or David Lynch material. Yeah, David Lynch....
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gottaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 06:38 AM
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13. Charlie Kaufman
and his brother, Donald.
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the Kelly Gang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 07:20 AM
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14. any ole chimp from the zoo for Bush..little acting is needed
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 07:36 AM
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15. Kevin Bacon needs to be in it...
To enhance the 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon game...
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loftycity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 10:19 AM
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18. Monday morning line up
Edward Norton -Chimp
Anthony Hopkins- Cheney
Billy Bob Thorton-Ashcroft
Dennis Hopper-Wolfiwitz
John Malkovich-Bremmer
Ben Kingsley-Chalabi
Kevin Spacey-Tenet
Lawrence Fishburne-Powell
Rutger Hauer-Perle
Gabriel Bryne-Blair
William Defoe-Myers
Ray Liotta-Kimmitt
Paul Reubens- Alberto Gonzoles counsel
Jack Nicholoson- James Baker
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legin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 10:34 AM
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19. Jim Carrey as bush*
do it as a slightly toned down 'The Riddler'.
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StayOutTheBushes Donating Member (218 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 11:27 AM
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20. principle parts?
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