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*UPDATE* -- okay, that's it for the day. It's 2pm, the jury has left the building and we have no verdict yet. We'll see you all back here bright and early on Monday morning for another week of live blogging from the Prettyman Courthouse -- JH
We thought we might have a hearing on the meaning of whatever word the jury wanted a dictionary for today, but so far -- nada. Still, in Marcy's absense it's been nice to have egregious here in the media room as backup in case I needed to be up in the courtroom (everyone knows how much I love sitting on those rock-hard benches). We've got about 45 minutes until the end of the day (jury goes home at 2pm) so we're in countdown phase for the weekend until then.
Meanwhile, via Jeralyn at TalkLeft, we find that the Wilsons have sold their story to Warner Brothers. The sport du jour here at the courthouse is casting. Matt Cooper has already publicy said that he wants Jack Black to play him (who would no doubt pick up an Oscar for the "sprawl" scene). Feel free to play blogospheric casting director in the comments below -- who knows, someone Debra Zane could be picking up tips.
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Jane!
Warner Brothers. It’s obviously a typo, since you’re in the film business.
John Cusack to play Fitz!
Dustin Hoffman as Scooter.
Egregious!! Jane!!
I love Sharon Stone… not as much as Jane and ReddHedd though!
I’ve always seen Diane Lane playing Valerie Plame.
OK, I know I’m Hollywood illiterate, so help me out here.
The actress on the lower left looks like Kirsten Dunst, upper right looks like Jennifer Connolly with blonde hair. Who are the other two?
Good thing there is no shortage of gorgeous intelligent blondes in Hollywood these days …
ooh I’ll have fun with this one. Thanks folks at FDL for hanging in there.
Jane, Christy, Marcy, Pach should play themselves. That would be pretty damn cool.
*I know I’m leaving some key FDLers out, my apologies.
LittlePig @ 9
Cate Blanchett on topleft, Sharon Stone topright.
Haven’t we been giving casting suggestions for almost a week now?
I was hoping to hear from the jury what words they were stuck on, to get some hint of what they’re working on.
Richard Gere as the Ambassador.
Last chance for a verdict today :)
*waves hi to fdl folk*
Sharon Stone as Valerie…if it is the current Valerie.
And is Jane going to be Producer? I am surprised someone in the Netroots didn’t buy this for filming.
upper left is Cate Blanchett - maybe the best current actress - and lower right is - I think - Naomi Watts
My choice is Sharon Stone. I think she could pull it off and she’s still got it at her age. BTW, I was going to suggest Sharon in a previous thread. She just seems like a natural choice for some reason.
Cate Blanchett is very talented but not quite the right choice.
Kirsten Dunst is way too young.
I don’t know who the chick is in the lower right corner but she looks familiar. Another possibility.
If he were still alive, I’d INSIST on Tor Johnson to play Dick Cheney.
Swopa @ 6
While Dustin Hoffman would be an excellent, I think he’s too big a “star” to play that part. What we need is someone who is DustinHoffman-like.
Also, sad but true, the only current male leading man out there who comes to mind for the role of Mr Fitsgerald is Ben Affleck. (They just don’t make movie start like they used to . . . 0
egregious @ 16
*waves back*
Is the bottomright one Naomi Watts?
Cast Members:
Valerie Plame - Helen Hunt/Nicole Kidman
Joe Wilson - John Goodman/Alec Baldwin
Karl Rove - Philip Seymour Hoffman
Scooter Libby - Jon Stewart
Patrick Fitzgerald - Kevin Costner
Ari Fleischer - Rob Cordry
Dick Cheney - Himself (from Prison)/Animatronic Robot
can we submit the names of dead actors to play Darth Cheney?
Can anyone else see George Clooney as Ambassador Wilson?
Jane Hamsher as Herself
I mentioned Naomi Watts for Valerie the other day, and from this picture I think she’d be perfect. Sharon Stone might work, too.
scarebaby @ 26
no.
Valerie Plame : Laura Linney
Joseph Wilson : Jeff Bridges
Irving Libby: Tim Roth
Patrick Fitzgerald : Bill Campbell
Mary Matalin: Mare Winningham
Karen Hughes: Diana Scarwid (in a special effects suit)
The question is, whose spin will the story be told from?
I’m just a wee bit cynical these days, don’t want to see this story get a whitewash.
steelthing @ 25
why not!
Young Turk @ 23
Have you seen John Goodman, lately?
portia.vz @
18
I was also thinking Sharon Stone.
I contend that Virginia Madsen is the perfect choice for the role of Valerie Plame.
Check these links and see if you don’t agree:
http://www.cinemagia.ro/getimg.....amp;size=s
http://www.producerslibrary.com/slides/Virginia Madsen.jpg
Tim Robbins as Fitz
The actor who plays Tommy Caffe in Brotherhood on Showtime has always kind of reminded me of Fitz…
http://www.sho.com/site/brotherhood/characters.do
Dru 29 — good list
Kevin Costner????
Jerry Zucker: Wisconsin boy. Milwaukee.
Dru @ 30
Exxxcellentt Libby
*xyz @34
I agree. I think Virginia Madsen is perfect as Valerie Plame.
Thank you, Jane!
I’m trying to think of someone decrepit enough to play Novak. Some dead actor would fit perfectly.
Max Schreck, perhaps? (Nosferatu)
mack @ 35
That may be the best Fitz casting suggestion so far.
Peter Murphey
LaFourmiRouge @ 43
I am not sure that Warner Brothers was a good choice as TimeWarner employs both Matthew Cooper and Novak.
LaFourmiRouge @ 44
my choice, too!
Anthony Hopkins with a cameo as Dick Cheney. Waugh, waugh.
Tom Selleck as Ted Wells. ^_^
Anjelica Huston (in full Morticia makeup) as Judy Miller.
And Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and Lucy Liu as Fitzie’s angels, I mean, Firedoglake livebloggers.
The Nefarious Leslie @ 44
Nope, too Tim Robbins is too Nadery for the role.
John Goodman as Tim Russert
The Nefarious Leslie @ 45
yes, but I’m not sure we’re there yet.
That’s it, the jury has left the building. We’ll be back here on Monday am…
mack @ 50
Now yer talkin’.
Alan Arkin as Shooter
James Woods as Scooter
Sasha Baron Cohen as Saddam Hussein
Jamie Gurtz as Judy Miller
I’m trying to think of someone decrepit enough to play Novak.
Anna Nicole Smith?
Another dead ringer:
Richard Dreyfuss has to play Cheney. See the link:
http://www.destinationhollywoo.....ent_01.jpg
Jane Hamsher @ 53
as will I
P.S. I think the jury was looking up the word “boondoggle.”
*xyz @ 34:
Seconded. She’s underrated. One of my favorites. I’m glad she got recognized in Sideways.
I nominate William H. Macy to play Scooter. He’s deft enough to pull off that delicate balance between bad guy and buffoon.
Young Turk @ 24
Ack! Nicole Kidman totally wrong. I always think of her as being too vulnerable and soft inside. The actress who plays Valerie has to project nerves of steel. Besides, Kidman is overexposed.
OT:
Bush is going to AL to see the tornada damage.
spinoza @ 56
you’re bad
mack @ 50
Good one!
My suggestion for TRex: Godzilla
The Nefarious Leslie @ 33
Charlize Theron as Valerie Plame. She can be stunningly beautiful or anything you want. She is a superb actor. Cate Blanchett could do it too. She is also a great actor.
Dru @ 29
Bill Campbell photo.
Jabba the Hut as Karl Rove.
Kevin Spacey as Fitz.
*xyz @ 56
Perfect! But he’d have to put on a little more weight.
HotFlash @ 66
another exxcellentt choice
Alice @ 46:
Cooper has left Time. Novak works for TimeWarner? News to me.
Need a role for ex-Sen Fred Thompson, no? He’s, after all, very interested in the case.
Casting:
Jon Lovitz to play Cheney. Nathan Lane to play Barbara Bush (the matriarch not the girl gone wild). And, a Howdy Doody puppet controlled by Lovitz to play George W. Bush.
Valerie Plame/Charlize Theron or Jane Hamsher
Joe Wilson/Jeff Bridges
Tim Russert/Randy Quaide
Judy Miller/Annette Benning
Scooter Libby/James Caan
*xyz @ 49
Nadery??? As in Ralph? Nuh-uh.
Someone suggested Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Rove. Awesome suggestion.
What about Nicholas Cage as Fitz? He can be a great actor when he chooses to do a good film instead of the dreck he often gets into.
Biodun @ 72
Nope, they’ve both left. Now Novak works for Murdoch at Fox.
Nathan Lane to play Barbara Bush (the matriarch not the girl gone wild)
Now that’s funny!
alerie Plame - Sharon Stone/Nicole Kidman
Joe Wilson - Alan Rickman/Trevor Eve
Karl Rove - Philip Seymour Hoffman
Scooter Libby - Bill Macy/ Jon Stewart
Patrick Fitzgerald - Kevin Spacy
Ari Fleischer - Rob Cordry
Dick Cheney - John Goodman/Brian Denehey
Many of these are culled from threads from earlier in the week. Everyone needs to rent a movie with Eric Bana because he can pull off brilliant and beautiful, the vital ingredients for the perfect Fitz.
Ambassador Joe Wilson: Richard Gere or Jeff Bridges
Valerie Plame: Virginia Madsen or Cate Blanchett
Karl Rove: Philip Seymour Hoffman
Scooter Libby: Kevin Spacey or William H. Macy [I like Dru’s selection of Tim Roth]
Dick Cheney: Jack Nicholson
Judy Miller: Judy Davis
Patrick Fitzgerald: Eric Bana or Hugh Laurie (Someone said John Cusack but I don’t think he can pull off the scarey smart.)
Bob Woodward: Robert Redford (again)
Matt Cooper: Wallace Shawn
Fred Thompson can’t act. Check him out at “Law & Order.”
Elliott @
57
good job, gang. let’s be patient, uh, patienter.
The Nefarious Leslie @ 68
Is Mare Winingham still acting? Doesn’t she have something like 86 kids? I can see the facial resemblence to Matalin but Mare seems too nice. I dunno, maybe she will like playing against type.
Oh yeah.
Tim’s a big Nader guy.
Tim’s support for Nader in 2000 is imprinted on his very soul forever.
Thus, Tim Robbins can never again credibly play a virtuous character.
so, is the jury done for the week?
Biodun @ 82
Lousy Senator, too.
pdq @ 69
Kevin Spacey could do Fitz or Libby.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman would be a smashing Karl Rove. Costner as Wilson seems good.
Jane S. @ 82
I hate to break it to you but I think Wallace Shawn is dead.
I know, it’s “Inconceivable”.
Paul23:
Tor Johnson playing Shooter–brilliant! The Unearthly.
Still miss my MST3K.
Hey guys, you can now register to attend Keith Olbermann’s interview with Valerie Plame in NYC on March 17.
Here’s a link
emptywheel @ 77
That’s nice to know. I thought Cooper had been promoted to Time’s Washington Bureau chief, no?
Brian Denehey as Darth! Perfect choice, RevDeb.
By the way, I think Virginia Madsen would be a close second behind Sharon Stone.
Someone mentioned Anthony Hopkins for Cheney, but I think Hopkins would really kill as Robert Novak.
portia.vz @ 89
He is not dead. A girlfriend of mine in NYC says she sees him around town all the time, she thinks he is following her. I grant you that he is a little old to play Cooper.
Meryl Street for Valarie Wilson.
I would actually like to see the whole film in the hands of the folks who made “Waiting for Guffman” and “A Mighty Wind”.
Tor Johnson reference AND MST3K !
awesome !
*xyz @ 34
If she can act it would totally work.
Kirsten Dunst: way too young
Sharon Stone: physically a good match, but perhaps a little too old.
Cate Blanchett: possible, but not quite right.
Naomi Watts: perfect.
For Joe:
Harrison Ford: too old, unfortunately, otherwise he’d be perfect.
Cary Grant: unfortunately unavailable.
George Clooney: just a tad too glam.
David Straitharn???: he played Edward R. Murrow in Clooney’s “Good Night and Good Luck.”
Russell Crowe???: as long as we keep him away from phones….
Colin Firth: can he do an American accent?
Hugh Jackman???: possibly too young
For Scooter:
Dustin Hoffman: brilliant
For Fitz:
Matt Damon?
Daniel Craig: the new Bond. Not tall enough, but if he can do an American accent, I’d say he’s otherwise right for the part.
*xyz @ 85
Did not know that. But he’s done so many other good things … maybe he could redeem himself.
Meryl Streep
Preview is our friend.
Eric Bana, yes. Hugh Laurie, no: too British.
*xyz @ 91
Augh! That’s the day I’m flying up to Boston for my wedding shower! Damn you, keith!
Will it be livebroadcast anywhere?
To go back on topic, I guess that means we need an actor for Keith now. Jeff Goldblum?
:ducking and running away while dodging tomatoes:
xyz @ #85,
get over it already, pup.
hackworth @ 88
I love Kevin Spacey, but he can’t do Fitz - for one thing, he’s way too short. But he would make a great Libby.
TRex @ 98
Brilliant! I’d see that in a New York minute.
TRex @ 98
I’d like William Goldman or Emptywheel to write it! Or Jane Hamsher.
Who broke the margins?
scarebaby @ 25
I can, although he may be just a little too glam. He was on my list though, see below.
Biodun @ 82
He can act like a corn-pone, dumb*ss war-mongering, police state imposing right winger. Oh wait…
Saint Brigid @
90
Me, too.
(And I never got into that whole Joel vs. Mike thing.)
.
You know we need to throw off the shackles, they did a play with what, 12 different people playing Bob Dylan? How aboiut Sandra Oh as Fitz?
This is as good a time as any to remind everyone not to blockquote more than two comments — or you bust our margins wide open and everyone will be forced to curse your name. Thanks.
guess the weekend has started. beer thirty anyone?
margins went wack right after I hit submit but to quote Homer Simpson: “I didn’t do it !”
Patrick Swayze as Karen Hughes
Jeff Bridges as Amb. Wilson
Charlize Theron as Valerie Plane
Safe travels, Jane.
BurkeDem @ 108
Christopher Guest. . .”You bastard people”!
I’m all for Jeff Bridges as Ambassador Wilson. I feel almost certain that Daniel Craig could do an American accent. He might be great as Fitz.
Denzel Washington as Wells.
I don’t see Sharon Stone as Valerie; either Naomi Watts or Madsen would be good, Blanchett maybe, maybe not; Helen Hunt too whiny-earnest IMHO.
Re Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Rover - a good choice, but better if the director and producer insist he play the role starting from his portrayal of Capote.
What about Bonamici, Zeidenberg, etc.? Laura SanGiacomo as Bonamici? Jennifer Connelly?
For Novak, Peter Cushing immediately sprang to mind.
Somewhere, Paul Giamatti fits into this, too.
And, Who to Play Judy???
Brad Garrett (Everybody Loves Raymond) as Wells
Daniel Day Lewis as Fitz (he’s tall and can play anything)
Ron Rifkin as Libby
Ed*ard Teller @ 106
Hmmmm… Scalia described Bush v. Gore as “water over the deck” and told us to “get over it”.
Portia. vz @ 89:
Wallace Shawn is very much alive. You’re thinking of his father, William, former editor of The New Yorker, who died in 1992, I think.
Jack Nicholson as Dickie Armitage
Biodun @ 104
I can’t give proper credit. Someone in comments suggested Hugh Laurie because he could pull off “Madness, Madness, Madness” in a way that few actors could. We know that he can do an American accent but I’ll grant you that is a little easier than Brooklyn. My mother is a Brooklyn girl and the cadence of that accent is truly a lullaby to me.
the other day somebody proposed Samuel L. Jackson to play Condi Rice
Judy = Diane Keaton
Christy Hardin Smith @ 115
Sorry, Christy - thought it was three comments. I have sinned.