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Ed Harris to Play John McCain in HBO's 'Game Change'
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsActor Ed Harris has been cast as John McCain in the upcoming HBO movie, "Game Change." The "A Beautiful Mind" actor has signed on to play the former Republican presidential nominee in the film, which follows the 2008 election and is based on a book by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. Harris will join Julianne Moore, who has already been tapped to play the role of vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. Getty Images Actor Ed Harris, right, has been cast as Sen. John McCain in HBO's "Game Change." "Game Change" is being directed by Jay Roach, written by Danny Strong and produced ...
Dick Cheney to Be Subject of HBO Miniseries
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyDick Cheney's been out of government for more than two years, but his political afterlife shows no signs of ending: HBO plans a miniseries on the famously abrasive former vice president. CNN reports that the project will be based on the "Frontline" documentary about Cheney, "The Dark Side," along with the Barton Gellman book, "Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency." No word from HBO on when the series will air or who will star, but it is expected to follow the former Wyoming congressman and defense secretary from his early years in the Nixon administration to his time as George W. Bush's ...
Julianne Moore to Play Sarah Palin: A Casting Choice as Divisive as Palin Herself
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsTina Fey may be the most famous Sarah Palin impersonator, but the "30 Rock" star has some new competition. Julianne Moore has been tapped to portray Palin in HBO's upcoming film about the 2008 presidential race, "Game Change." The casting choice has provoked some surprisingly passionate responses. Says the Los Angeles Times' Nardine Saad: It's an interesting twist, casting an Oscar-nominated actress to play a politico who until recently was making a name for herself as a reality TV star. It's almost flattering that news that she'll be played by the classy redhead (Moore) broke soon ...
Opinion: 6 Ways to Improve the Oscars Next Year
By David Fagin - AOL NewsWhen the biggest moments this year were Melissa Leo dropping of the F-bomb and a feisty Kirk Douglas, maybe the Oscars should start calling themselves "The Felixes"? To think, this is a show that honors some of the most deranged and spoiled members of our society -- actors -- and last night's telecast was the first time a bad word had ever been uttered in its history? No wonder the shows are so boring. Even Sesame Street is more edgy these days. And, let's face it, when everyone already knows the outcome, the Oscars are just too clean, too proper and too late for the Internet ...
Happy 100th Birthday to the 1911 .45 Pistol, Our Gun of Choice
By James Grady - Politics DailyThis year marks the 100th "birthday" of one of America's most successful and culturally impactive political tools: the 1911 .45 semi-automatic pistol. Yet this is not just a story about a gun. Though, of course, this story stars and starts with that gun. Or rather, our need for it that emerged when U.S. armed forces fought Muslim insurgents on Asian turf that most Americans have trouble finding on a map. As most of us remember -- especially fans of Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling -- from 1899-1913, the United States fought the Philippine-American War for control of those Pacific islands. In ...
From Paris, With Love: The French Are Concerned For Us
By James Grady - Politics DailyA revelation about French perspectives of the United States and our politics emerged last month in a Paris suburb as I sat on a movie theater stage with three other American authors. We four born in the U.S.A. panelists came to that upper-middle-class suburb of Vincennes – think Bethesda, Md., or Wash(ington) Park in Denver – for a three-day "Festival America" celebration of North American culture. While the festival featured authors and artists from Canada, Cuba, Haiti, and Mexico, its heartbeat came from this land of ours. Events glittered with stars including Pulitzer Prize ...
'The Wire' Creator Among 23 'Genius Grant' Winners
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Sept. 28) -- David Simon, creator of HBO's epic "The Wire" series, says he feels "a little sheepish" about being among 23 scientists, inventors and scholars who've been awarded this year's "genius grants" from the MacArthur Foundation. The $500,000 annual awards come with no strings attached, paid out quarterly over five years, and are usually given to scientists, entrepreneurs or artists who contribute talent and creativity to society. This year's winners include, among others, a public high school physics teacher, a Native American language preservationist, a stone carver, three ...
'Boardwalk Empire' Effect: 'GoodFellas' to Become a TV Series?
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Sept. 23) -- Now that Martin Scorsese's "Boardwalk Empire" is running on HBO and garnering rave reviews, TV executives are hoping the acclaimed film director will take on another television show -- "GoodFellas." Yes, television studios (only slightly less original than movie studios) are reportedly hoping to turn one of the best mob films of all time, which focused on gangster turned state's witness Henry Hill, into a hit series a la "The Sopranos," reports Deadline New York. While Scorsese has not signed up -- in fact, "Boardwalk Empire" already has been picked up for a second season -- ...
Christine O'Donnell: Don't Hide From Your Witchy Generation X Past
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyChristine O'Donnell is the Forrest Gump of politics. In 1996, she popped up on MTV in a special talking about the sin of masturbation. In the late 1990s, she appeared on Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect 22 times, according to Maher, and once even cracked sex jokes with Ben Affleck. O'Donnell, 41, is the new Republican U.S. Senate nominee in Delaware. She is also a Generation X candidate, leaving a cyber trail like many in the Rock the Vote generation. They supported a host of causes – anti-apartheid, AIDS treatment, sexual abstinence and, in O'Donnell's case, anti-masturbation. Her ...
The Lesson of 9/11 on the Ninth Anniversary
By James Grady - Politics DailyThe lesson of 9/11 is to remember where we are, not where we were. But where were you? At work on New York and Pentagon and Pennsylvania-field Eastern time? Driving some Central time zone commute near Oklahoma City where the then deadliest terrorist attack in America's history exploded six years before 9/11's beautiful autumn day? Having kitchen coffee out West where amber waves of grain surround the nuclear missile arsenals that deterred our Cold War enemies for decades? Asleep in California time, where Hollywood had, with some exceptions, sold us terrorists as only cartoon-like ...
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