Since you think the original MC was great, you probably recall it was an attack on the right & McCarthy.

I also don't see any reason to remake (particularly considering how bad Demme's remake of Charade was).

And I hate to break it to you, but a lot more people like Michael Moore than you imagine. Though most don't thimk he kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being they've ever not met. And F 9/11 will reach far beyond us communists as they would have said in the MC.

Steve- Why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?

I took the original movie as an attack on both McCarthy AND communists, as against sensible moderate Americans. The red-baiting Senator Iselin was the tool of the Reds. The communists were the bad guys- it's just that the supposed right winger was really one of them.

I'm also a big fan of Tim Robbins' classic Bob Roberts, from which I could probably quote you back half the script at this point, with all his groovy right wing conspiracy stuff. I dig it the most.

You may be right about Michael Moore. He's certainly established a serious market niche for himself. I may underestimate the breadth of his appeal, but that's irrelevant to my point here, which is that if even just 1% of Americans really like your product and want to buy it, that's a BIG market on which you can make good money.

If 3 or 4 million Americans spend $8 a throw to go to Moore's movie, then they buy one of his books, and then a DVD of the movie for their buddy for Christmas- hey, Michael Moore's raking it in. Good for him.

I'm still skeptical of the remake of MC, but this Hillary angle at least gives me a glimmer of hope for something interesting.

Besides, Hillary Clinton is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've never met.

I suck at solitaire.

I watched the original on DVD the other day. It was a little worse for wear (my friend asked, who wrote that dialogue?), but still good.

I agree Bob Roberts is also good.

Dan (Tom Tomorrow) has praise for F911. I'm looking forward to seeing it.

Not sure yet if I'll see the new MC.

was there a remote possibility that Tom Tomorrow wouldn't like an anti-Bush screed?

In this week's Entertainment Weekly, Meryl Streep explains that she prepared for the part (in The Manchurian Candidate) by watching political talk shows:

"Anything with Peggy Noonan, Karen Hughes.... It's hard to get more hyperbolic than that, but there are lots of little subtleties in how people spin and push their points of view...."

Oops, not a Hillary "momment" after all:)

Well, of course the spin is going to be that it's not anything to do with Hillary. Then again, Peggy Noonan is a mild mannered speech writer, not a an evil, power mad senator. I'm just sayin'

We'll see what the actual film looks like, and go from there.

This is 4 years later, but Meryl Streep's Senator Shaw performance now seems eerily, creepily prescient. Every time I see Clinton I think of this film and my skin crawls.

If Obama gets the nomination and gamely picks Clinton as his running mate he will either be shot on the DNC convention floor or within 6 months after winning the general election. The assassin will most likely be a brainwashed Abu Ghraib prisoner with a manufactured profile courtesy of the NSA/DHS, thus erasing any ties to the right wing power structure. The news media will manically wave the Arab's face before a devastated/triumphant public already polarized by this election cycle, deflecting any finger pointing at Hillary and/or the Republicans. The media will depict suspicious Barack HUSSEIN Obama supporters and conspiracy theorists as unpatriotic, TERRORIST sympathizers or the lunatic fringe. A new wave of anti-Arab/Muslim sentiment will sweep the nation, "forcing" Clinton to continue military operations in Iraq and the "War on Terror".

Thus the +1 billion dollars a day in military spending will continue, most of which is directed towards nominally American controlled conglomerates operating overseas in Asia and the Middle East, until this country is squeezed dry and abandoned for China, India and Israel. If only 10% of those first two nation's populations become wealthy/upper-middle class, that is equivalent to EVERY man, woman and child in the United States. Who needs the support of Kentucky hillbillies and Detroit ghetto roaches when you have that kind of spending power within reach? Jonathan Demme and the screenwriters were definitely trying to send a warning volley to the public with this one.

Shyler- Thanks for that groovy fantasy. President Hillary going apeshit on some Arab dirtbags does sound GREAT. I'll probably be having dreams of Hillary.

Of course, I was head of the 2008 Hoosier Libertarians for Hillary.