I'm a little tight on time today. Fortunately, this article has absolved me of any need to write a substantial post. Apparently, Oliver Stone is already finishing a script on the Bush presidency (does Stone know the Bush presidency isn't over? Or is that the point?). In an interview, Stone said he planned to make the film "a fair, true portrait" of Bush.
What a relief! Here I thought history would remember Iraq as a titanic debacle! Thanks, Mr. Stone, for securing Bush's legacy.
Stone also told reporters that the film "will contain surprises for Bush supporters and his detractors." What does that mean? Is there something about the Bush presidency we don't already know? Does he have a third nipple or something? As a Bush detractor, that would shock me.
Since this means it's ok to write a presidential biopic before the president's term is over, I suggest Stone also script films about the tenures of Obama, H. Clinton, Huckabee and Romney, respectively. That way, if we decide in the future that whoever is elected has been a total failure, we can just escape into the films about the people we didn't vote for and think about how good things would have been.
Even better, we could have candidates run for office, then run against their films after 4 years . . .
In other news, the Supreme Court decided yesterday that Al Gore could not demand a recount in Florida after his defeat in a closely contest election to the Oliver Stone film, Al Gore: Hanging Like a Chad in the Wind. When contacted for comment, the film rambled on for 3 hours and then descended into madness.
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