Screenwriters throw around story ideas from last year's politics

[UTUSN]

And my computer died this week and I'm on a borrowed one, so my DISCLAIMER regarding the NY Post is over there, but I'll try to remember some of it: Yes, the NYP is a RAG. Yes, it's MURDOCH owned. No, MURDOCH doesn't dictaphone content to his columnists. No, "gossip" does NOT equate with "UNtruth." These gossipers are more reliable than Tweety and such ilk. All I read in the Post are the gossips and the horoscope. I first heard of/saw these gossips on the E!1 network, then looked them up when they got cancelled and it just happened they were at the Post. The purpose of this Disclaimer is to head-off distracting very very predictable OT posts griping and hijacking. If you can't enjoy this bit of mildly enteraining fluff (related to politics), how about letting that ONE possible member out there who MIGHT, do so?!1

Well??? A computer going bust makes one CRANKY!1


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http://www.nypost.com/seven/02072009/gossip/pagesix/palin_tale_a_moose_s_hwood_153894.htm

PALIN tale a-moose-s H'wood

SARAH Palin is gone back to Alaska but not forgotten. Hollywood screenwriters are fascinated by the story of the moose-hunting mother of five who was thrust into the national spotlight to run for vice president. ....


Tom McCarthy, who wrote "The Visitor," is more interested in the tale of hockey-playing hunk Levi Johnston, who knocked up Palin's daughter Bristol.

"This young man gets his girlfriend pregnant and ends up on the Republican platform at the National Convention," McCarthy said. "This 17-year-old kid from Alaska, standing on the stage - there's a dark comedy in there somewhere. He was like a deer in the headlights."

Asked to choose the 2008 event they'd most like to turn into a screenplay, other screenwriters nominated for awards this year had less commercial ideas. "I'd want to adapt the great relationship drama of our time, Bill and Hillary Clinton," said Eric Roth of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." ....


And John Patrick Shanley, who wrote "Doubt," was obsessed by the wild monkeys who attacked and killed a deputy mayor in New Delhi. A Bollywood version of "Snakes on a Plane," perhaps?

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[KittyWampus]

1. hope your computer problems are fixed soon, UTUSN. If the Palin's story were put on tv

I'd hope the drugs and Secessionist AIP party were featured prominently.

[UTUSN]

2. Wow, THANKS for the kind words AND the on-topic discussion!1 n/t

[Grey]

3. I think that could be a hoot...

[lunatica]

4. The Levi Johnston story would be a good one...

Definitely the deer/headlights look.

But I think it would be wise to watch Sarah Palin for a while before writing her screenplay. She has much more to give so I hope/fear we haven't seen nothin yet.

I wonder if the Octowoman story pisses Sarah off. There's actually someone whose even dumber than she is who yanked the Media's attention away from her without her permission. And someone who the pro-life kneejerkers can make a Goddess out of. They do love the snowflake babies and Octomom has got to be a hero by now.