SPIELBERG AND BORAT
01.01.08
According to the London Sunday Times, Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat) is set to play Abbie Hoffman in Steven Spielberg’s The Trial of the Chicago Seven. Hoffman, as you’ll remember, is that one guy.
DreamWorks inked a deal with Aaron Sorkin [Charlie Wilson's War] to write the script for the project in July. Spielberg is producing alongside Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald.
I’m sure it will be a loving tribute to a counter culture icon who never abandons his ideals, created by people who would cut your belly open if they thought there was a penny in it.
Spielberg also has an Abraham Lincoln movie starring Liam Neeson in the works, and is lined up to direct one of the Tintin movies (Peter Jackson is also set to direct one). As for me, I’m probably just gonna finish this Scotch and then have a good cry. Life’s alright, man, life’s alright.
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BONG!!!!
I agree with Fek. Sorkin shot his wad on the first 4 seasons of The West Wing. Which coincidentally is the best show ever in my opinion. At least the first 4 seasons. The last three were moderate at best, but still not enough to knock it off the top spot for me.
For the record, I wouldn’t cross the street for $10. A blowjob maybe, but $20 is the going rate for streetcrossing in my world.
I’m assuming that TinTin has enough up it’s sleeve to warrant more than one movie. But I can’t think of anything. And that’s after I realized that it’s not about a K9 cop. I dunno. I see no hidden funny in this post.
The Mighty Fek’lhr likes that one Tintin book where they go to Africa and are racist. QAPLAH!
Hey man, if that’s a good scotch you’re working on you need to pony up. Share the wealth as it were. Also I no longer give a flying fuck about anything even remotely having to do with Ali G.
JHC – You are dead on the money. West Wing Seasons 1-4 = best TV ever written. And I’m not even a bleeding heart, liberal, pinko, commie douchebag.
…and then have a good cry.
Sounds like somebody needs to HAHDEN THE FUCK UP.
Me either. I’m just a normal douchebag.
Me neither erswi. I tend to run down the middle of the road politically, but for the life of me, I’ve never watched a better show. The chemistry the cast had and the writing of Sorkin and co. was off the fucking shelf good. God bless John Spencer’s soul.
I don’t mean to tell you guys your business, but the best TV show ever written was that one show that was pretty much a rip-off of Married with Children, only it also had a puppet with Bobcat Zolthguait’s voice. And only the "Al" character talked to the stuffed animal or could hear it. And he drank beer with it.
That one is a close second. Man how I wished that show was on HBO so I could’ve seen the daughters boobs.
Unhappily Ever After. AKA "Nikki Cox in a Low Cut Blouse" . . . WITH BLOOD!
Oz was the best show. West Wing is close second.
No. MTV’s "The Brothers Grunt". Once again I have nothing to base that claim on, but I’m sticking to it.
I concur LaLa, it was like a great super violent soap opera with male rape. AND BLOOD!
The only Abbie Hoffman I will recognize is the one played by Vincent D’Nofrio.
I was just thinking that Luch. Its been done Spielberg. I hate you .
and, no , my resolution this year is not to agree with everybody, although i have today.
No. You’re all wrong. The best show ever was Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad.
I’ve already broken my resolution. "Get more head". Sometimes, the wife just doesn’t care what I’ve vowed to do. :(
Didn’t watch Oz. Probably due to the fact that I noticed it on the channel line up, got my lotion and tissues all together, then flipped over to it only to find a black guy balls deep into some skinny white guy’s ass. Needless to say, I didn’t end up snapping my carrot to the Wicked Witch of The West that night.
Deadwood. Two white cocksucka!
Yo all, Happy Hangovers yesterday? I got shit faced, saw a kid on fire, cooked some great food and got laid. Just thinking about it all makes me want to cry.
The Sopranos for fuck’s sake. The imdb quote page is a goldmine.
Some of Ali G’s early stuff is awe inspiring: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Vt41_DxnE
Sopranos was incredible for four seasons, five started to fray and it just limped home. Seemed like David Chase started drawing out the end of the series. He wrote and piched five written seasons, and padded the end to beat the horse dead.
I may have to kidnap David Chase and force him to write a follow up episode to the Russian in the woods classic. He let me down by ignoring that story. Okay, it was written by someone else and directed by Steve Buscemi, but every subsequent episode was slightly disappointing for me as it became obvious that there was a path he didn’t want to follow.
Ya, Pine Barrens is everybodies favorite. I lost count of all of the loose ends, story lines popping up and disappearing. Chase said he did this on purpose to emmulate real life. OK, but when the main story progression was getting almost totally ignored so the show could wander off on some three week long tangent that resulted in nothing of interrest, it became a disjointed mess. And the whole Tony in coma dreamland was bold but fucking dumb.