Post by Brian on Nov 19, 2010 0:43:02 GMT -8
I hope that "Fair Game" will have boffo box office and then get some Oscar nominations because I've got a lot to say about the movie. In case you haven't seen it, this is the trailer:
I hadn't been inside a movie theater for four years. Since then I've only watched a few new films on cable that weren't documentaries. Even then, the most memorable is "Nixon/Frost." I lost interest in fiction because, for me, reality is bizarre enough. I spent years steeped in the minutia of what came to be called the CIA leak investigation -- from Novak's column to Scooter's clemency -- scribbling unanswered questions on a note pad while watching "Hardball" on MSNBC and learning which reporters to track down in print and on the Internet, like Murray Waas and Michael Isikoff, for the answers. And more questions.
I've heard "Fair Game" compared to "All the President's Men." Both are slick Hollywood movies based on a recent Constitutional crisis with real life heroes portrayed by superb actors. But if more Americans had heeded the lessons of Watergate, we never would have had a Plamegate.
I hadn't been inside a movie theater for four years. Since then I've only watched a few new films on cable that weren't documentaries. Even then, the most memorable is "Nixon/Frost." I lost interest in fiction because, for me, reality is bizarre enough. I spent years steeped in the minutia of what came to be called the CIA leak investigation -- from Novak's column to Scooter's clemency -- scribbling unanswered questions on a note pad while watching "Hardball" on MSNBC and learning which reporters to track down in print and on the Internet, like Murray Waas and Michael Isikoff, for the answers. And more questions.
I've heard "Fair Game" compared to "All the President's Men." Both are slick Hollywood movies based on a recent Constitutional crisis with real life heroes portrayed by superb actors. But if more Americans had heeded the lessons of Watergate, we never would have had a Plamegate.
