[Daaave]

(Angelina) Jolie is another longtime fan of Rand's, and she was eager to play the role of Dagny Taggart, the most powerful female character in any of the Russian-born author's books.

[Publius]

I see the twins are out tonight.

[SAJ]

This twit as Dagny? Thank Heaven I didn't eat a large dinner!

She should more properly be cast as Betty Lake (iirc the character correctly), Jim Taggart's girlfriend who was fond of toe-nail clippers and shish-kebabs.

Amazing that a wonderful film could be and was made from such a broad-scale, and rather more complex, epic as Doctor Zhivago, and yet the film industry (evidently) haven't the first clue among them as to casting for Atlas Shrugged.

Or, perhaps, it's not so amazing.

[thubb]

can't say i've ever read any of rand's works, but if jolie is such a fan one would think that perhaps the philosophy would have sunk in enough to bring her out of 'the dark side'??????

[ridesthemiles]

I find it really unbelieveable that Jolie is a "long-time fan of this author. She couldn't live her life more opposite of the principles that were shown in Atlas Shrugged., IMO.