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Fred Thompson heads back to Hollywood
Reuters ^

Posted on 03/24/2008 12:33:21 PM PDT by 300magnum

Fred Thompson heads back to Hollywood 21 minutes ago

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson is returning to his career as an actor and signed a deal to be represented by the William Morris Agency, the talent group said on Monday.

Thompson, a former U.S. senator from Tennessee, is best known in the entertainment world for portraying New York District Attorney Arthur Branch on the television crime drama "Law & Order," but has appeared in numerous films and TV shows over the years.

The 65-year-old actor and politician was a candidate for the Republican nomination for U.S. president before dropping out of the race in January after garnering little support. Arizona Senator John McCain is the presumptive Republican nominee.

Thompson gained notoriety as minority counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee investigating the scandal that led to the resignation of U.S. President Richard Nixon in 1974.

His first movie role was in 1985's "Marie." Thompson has since appeared in many films, including "Die Hard 2" and "In the Line of Fire," frequently as politicians or other authority figures. In 2007 television movie "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," for instance, he portrayed President Ulysses S. Grant.

Thompson won a seat in the U.S. Senate from Tennessee in 1994 and served until 2003. He began his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2007.

(Editing by Dan Whitcomb)


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; fred; fredthompson; hollywood

1 posted on 03/24/2008 12:33:21 PM PDT by 300magnum
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To: 300magnum

Fred does not seem interested in the VP Slot.


2 posted on 03/24/2008 12:36:02 PM PDT by trumandogz ("He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and it worries me." Sen Cochran on McCain)
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To: 300magnum

Best Fred Thompson role?

I gotta go with Admiral Painter from Hunt for Red October.

“Russians don’t take a dump, son, without a plan. “


3 posted on 03/24/2008 12:36:29 PM PDT by Slapshot68
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To: 300magnum
...if only
4 posted on 03/24/2008 12:37:07 PM PDT by Neenah ( Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass - it's about learning to dance in the rain.)
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To: 300magnum
Hindsight is 20/20... Fred Thompson was nothing more than a diversion in the primaries... he didn't say the things he needed to say or when he need to say them to make a real run at it.

I am not saying they conspired together, but Thompson is a major part of the reason we are looking at McCain as the nominee. And that depresses me.
5 posted on 03/24/2008 12:37:52 PM PDT by Pantera
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To: 300magnum
Unless you're a corruptocrat, the ratio of reward to effort is much larger in Hollywood than in Washington, D.C..

Forward to the past, Fred!

6 posted on 03/24/2008 12:38:41 PM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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To: 300magnum
He sure had me fooled.
7 posted on 03/24/2008 12:39:22 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: Pantera

Fred was a great blocking back for McCain.


8 posted on 03/24/2008 12:40:30 PM PDT by trumandogz ("He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and it worries me." Sen Cochran on McCain)
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To: Pantera
he didn't say the things he needed to say or when he need to say them to make a real run at it.

You mean he didn't lie and pander like the other candidates?

9 posted on 03/24/2008 12:41:24 PM PDT by Prokopton
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To: 300magnum

Good luck Fred in your endeavors.

IMHO, life’s too short to be President of the United States where half the folks are liberally short of brain cells.


10 posted on 03/24/2008 12:44:14 PM PDT by not2worry ( What goes around comes around!)
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To: 300magnum

“Thompson gained notoriety as minority counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee...”

Notoriety?

Gee, there sure is no bias in that news story...

(sarcasm)


11 posted on 03/24/2008 12:45:56 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: Pantera
he didn't say the things he needed to say or when he need to say them to make a real run at it.

He had better ideas than all of the other candidates put together. He just wasn't a flashy candidate, and even many conservatives here said that they liked his ideas, but they didn't think he was telegenic enough to be President. He couldn't fight that, because he is what he is. If they weren't interested in ideas, there was nothing he could do.

12 posted on 03/24/2008 12:46:55 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: 300magnum

I wonder if he’ll do a cameo on the Clinton sitcom?


13 posted on 03/24/2008 12:49:49 PM PDT by wilco200 (Typical White Person)
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To: 300magnum
Fred Thompson heads back to Hollywood ^
 
03/24/2008 3:33:21 PM EDT · by 300magnum · 12 replies · 189+ views
Reuters ^
Fred Thompson heads back to Hollywood 21 minutes ago LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson is returning to his career as an actor and signed a deal to be represented by the William Morris Agency, the talent group said on Monday. Thompson, a former U.S. senator from Tennessee, is best known in the entertainment world for portraying New York District Attorney Arthur Branch on the television crime drama "Law & Order," but has appeared in numerous films and TV shows over the years. The 65-year-old actor and politician was a candidate for the Republican nomination for...
 

Sen. Fred Thompson Set To Resume Acting ^
 
03/24/2008 2:16:46 PM EDT · by pissant · 27 replies · 590+ views
Access Hollywood ^ | 3.24.08 | staff
LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- After a failed run for president, Fred Thompson is getting back to pretending to be commander in chief. Hollywood's high-powered William Morris Agency announced this week that it has signed the actor/politician, signaling a return to the screen for the former senator from Tennessee. Thompson most recently appeared as grizzled district attorney Arthur Branch on Law & Order and has played authority figures in the films "The Hunt For Red October," "Die Hard II" and "In the Line of Fire." Thompson dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination on Jan. 22.
 

Fred Thompson says he will be going back to his old day job ^
 
03/24/2008 10:25:28 AM EDT · by diverteach · 4 replies · 96+ views
TMZ.com ^ | 03/24/2008 | TMZ
Failed GOP presidential hopeful Fred Thompson says he will be going back to his old day job, playing pols on TV. William Morris announced that they've signed big Fred to do TV and movie roles. Before he tried to make it as an actual president (after being a real Senator from Tennessee), he spent years playing big-shot pols and most recently the District Attorney on "Law & Order." Of course, there's still buzz that could be cast in the role of Veep for John McCain.
 

Fred Thompson looks to go back to acting ^
 
03/24/2008 7:30:42 AM EDT · by decimon · 40 replies · 790+ views
Associated Press ^ | March 24, 2008 | Unknown
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - After a failed run for president, Fred Thompson is getting back to pretending to be commander in chief. Hollywood's high-powered William Morris Agency announced this week that it has signed the actor/politician, signaling a return to the screen for the former senator from Tennessee. Thompson most recently appeared as grizzled district attorney Arthur Branch on "Law & Order" and has played authority figures in the films "The Hunt For Red October," "Die Hard II" and "In the Line of Fire." Thompson dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination on Jan. 22.

14 posted on 03/24/2008 12:51:54 PM PDT by McGruff (Support Rush's Operation C.H.A.O.S. - Crush Hillary And Obama Simultaneously)
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To: McGruff
Wow, you must have used the SEARCH feature.
15 posted on 03/24/2008 12:54:47 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: 300magnum

Fred ushered in McCain. Thanks Fred, the true conservative.

Fred you had no b*lls and helped your buddy, McCain. You also scre*ed your conservative backers .

What a jerk.


16 posted on 03/24/2008 12:55:11 PM PDT by indylindy
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To: 300magnum

Thompson was a sensible man with sensible positions who was not as hungry as we require our politicians to be. He did not seem interested in jumping through hoops, political spin, or selling himself. He was in other words a lousy politician who would have made a better President than any of the remaining three candidates. But the American people may not get a person who makes a better President than Fred but they will get what they crave, a better politician who will spin and lie to them again, again, and again. Fred may not have had what takes to get elected, but the American people may not have what it takes to choose a sensible man with sensible positions over just another conniving political hack. The blame is not on Fred, but on those who passed him over for what we got.


17 posted on 03/24/2008 12:56:00 PM PDT by Biblebelter (Oprah had better judgment that Barry, she left Barry's Uncle Jeremiah while the getting was good.)
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To: SuziQ

Fred, the non telegenic actor.


18 posted on 03/24/2008 12:56:20 PM PDT by trumandogz ("He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and it worries me." Sen Cochran on McCain)
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To: SuziQ
Great analysis, SuziQ. The election process, especially the current primaries side shows and the coming vote frauds where just about anybody can vote without proper ID is becoming burlesque. I don't blame Fred for eschewing any thoughts of another campaign in the present atmosphere.

The degeneration and circus atmosphere of the election process has turned it from a sober Constitutional right and privilege into a joke that is more of an actuality than any contrived fiction in the movies or on TV.

I'm afraid that in the future our presidential candidates from both parties will be from the bottom of the barrel (like now) because conservative, principled men like Thompson won't run.

Break a leg, Fred.

Leni

19 posted on 03/24/2008 1:03:28 PM PDT by MinuteGal (I Love My Country More Than I Hate McCain)
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To: indylindy

FDT is a very honorable man. He does not deserve these disparaging remarks. His campaign floundered at times but his message was clear.

McCain has ascended from the difficulties of the other candidates. The polls showing McCain as the only candidate capable of defeating the rats ultimately doomed the other candidates. I will support McCain given the alternative is unthinkable.


20 posted on 03/24/2008 1:10:26 PM PDT by businessprofessor
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To: 300magnum

Should have never left in the first place, loser!


21 posted on 03/24/2008 1:18:11 PM PDT by Trueblackman (Terrorism and Liberalism never sleep and neither do I)
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To: Pantera

Brilliant analysis!


22 posted on 03/24/2008 1:21:23 PM PDT by Theodore R. ( Cowardice is still forever!)
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To: Prokopton

Not really: he just didn’t distinguish himself from the othrs. He seemed uninterested in running after all: like it was an audition of which he grew bored.


23 posted on 03/24/2008 1:22:29 PM PDT by Theodore R. ( Cowardice is still forever!)
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To: businessprofessor

Yea, just when one thought it was safe to dump the lesser-of-two-evils mantra, along comes Oprah’s Obama!


24 posted on 03/24/2008 1:23:30 PM PDT by Theodore R. ( Cowardice is still forever!)
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To: MplsSteve

Some people think fame and notoriety are synonyms, but they are not.


25 posted on 03/24/2008 1:25:38 PM PDT by Theodore R. ( Cowardice is still forever!)
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To: Pantera

Baloney.

With the exception of Hunter, none of the other candidates were worth a bucket of warm spit.


26 posted on 03/24/2008 1:40:13 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Mossad!)
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To: 300magnum

Maybe he can play a conservative.


27 posted on 03/24/2008 1:41:54 PM PDT by exit82 (People get the government they deserve. And they are about to get it--in spades.)
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To: trumandogz

He didn’t seem to interested in the President spot either. And now he’s turning to Hollywood while the country needs conservatives most. Very disappointing.


28 posted on 03/24/2008 1:42:59 PM PDT by enough_idiocy (Holding my nose in 2008. I disagree with McCain on lots of issue, but with the Democrats on more.)
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To: indylindy

Actually, it was Romney and the Huckster who caused us to get McCain.

Romney’s expensive vanity candidacy, backed by a core of good fellow Mormons, who were blind to his falsity, drained all the worker bees and air time.

Huckster, propped up as the MSM’s favorite easy kill, was too stupid to know he was being used as a pawn, and drained off the pro-life voters.


29 posted on 03/24/2008 1:43:52 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Mossad!)
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To: businessprofessor

Wahhh! Fred was a sad joke who fooled principled conservatives into believing him.

They all gave out money and support and got screwed because of his mother being ill, which, I might add, was an excuse to get out of the race and let McLame win.

How sad.


30 posted on 03/24/2008 1:52:50 PM PDT by indylindy
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To: MeanWestTexan
“.. it was Romney and the Huckster who caused us to get McCain.”

Exactly. For example, without Huckabee in the SC race, Thompson would have had a shot at winning there, and the dynamics of the race thereafter might might have been very different.

31 posted on 03/24/2008 1:53:04 PM PDT by riverdawg
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To: MeanWestTexan

I liked the “idea” of Fred too...but...he was just a foil for McCain. Fred had no fire because he wasn’t supposed to.

Liberal McCain has the fire, if you want to call it that. Now, me, I never trusted Fred, and I am glad I didn’t. He didn’t fool me.

Fred was never a serious candidate. Never. Really sad.

He just screwed it up for other conservatives, real ones.


32 posted on 03/24/2008 1:57:16 PM PDT by indylindy
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To: indylindy

Fred didn’t ‘usher in’ McCain. McCain was already in it when Fred entered. Fred got into the race because he didn’t see another conservative candidate who wasn’t pandering to some constituency or another. There were several conservative candidates whose votes stepped on each other, so McCain came out ahead. It wasn’t Fred’s fault. He had some great ideas that were ingored by many conservatives, most, it seemed, who were looking for the Second Coming, or a Preacher in Chief, rather than a good solid Presidential candidate.


33 posted on 03/24/2008 2:20:20 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Pantera

Fred Thompson was nothing more than a diversion in the primaries..

Well, another person who gets it.


34 posted on 03/24/2008 2:28:44 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Don't Blame Me - I Supported Duncan Hunter)
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To: indylindy

WHAT other conservatives?

Duncan Hunter? I love the man, but he only has fringe appeal and is a protectionist.

Sorry, all the “foil for McCain” stuff is foil allright -— tinfoil hat.


35 posted on 03/24/2008 2:30:06 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Mossad!)
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To: trumandogz

Fred always laughed when folks seemed underwhelmed by his acting. He never pretended to be an Oscar quality actor; he just played his parts, and played them basically all the same.


36 posted on 03/24/2008 2:32:37 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ
I wish he would have acted like he wanted to be President.
37 posted on 03/24/2008 2:41:26 PM PDT by trumandogz ("He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and it worries me." Sen Cochran on McCain)
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To: MeanWestTexan

Oh come on, get real. I liked what Fred said he was for too. Only problem was, he didn’t believe it enough to stand up for it like a conservative warrior. That may be because he was drafted rather than enlisting.

Fred is an okay guy. He is not a leader, except in the movies!


38 posted on 03/24/2008 2:48:36 PM PDT by indylindy
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To: Biblebelter

I just can’t jump on Fred ....he was my choice, I still think he was the best candidate running. He was also the first and only one I ever contributed money to their campaign. Yes, I was disappointed in the way his campaign was run , and his heart maybe wasn’t in it...but I sure don’t blame him for wanting to go back to his life.....I’m a great fan of Law & Order, and I miss him not being on that program anymore.I do wish him and his family well...I’m only sorry he’s not going to be our candidate..I would have loved to vote for him....as it is, I’m out in the cold...a old time Conservative with nowhere to go.


39 posted on 03/24/2008 2:52:26 PM PDT by Molly T. (Not voting for the lesser of two evils, been there, done that...)
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To: 300magnum

Thanks alot for taking a dive in the Prez race Fred.

How bout returning the 50 bucks I sent?


40 posted on 03/24/2008 3:42:23 PM PDT by Hammerhead
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To: trumandogz

I didn’t have a problem with him not lusting after the job. I respected that immensely.


41 posted on 03/24/2008 8:28:18 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Biblebelter

Well said.

How short our revisionist memories are.


42 posted on 03/29/2008 12:08:59 PM PDT by FreeAgent
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To: indylindy

Yeah, he’s such an “ok” guy that you call him a jerk.

Nice.


43 posted on 03/29/2008 12:27:42 PM PDT by Politicalmom (Better a leftist Dem with energized GOP opposition, than a leftist "Republican" with no opposition.)
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To: Biblebelter

GREAT post!!


44 posted on 03/29/2008 12:28:31 PM PDT by Politicalmom (Better a leftist Dem with energized GOP opposition, than a leftist "Republican" with no opposition.)
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To: Politicalmom

Good Lord, this was days ago. I like Fred, but you have to admit, he didn’t fight too hard for you or for me.

Wonder why that is? Now don’t hold other greivances against me, we are talking about Fred here.

I would have been for him if he would have had the staying power. I do not blame him for that. I think it had a whole lot to do with McCain.


45 posted on 03/29/2008 1:34:56 PM PDT by indylindy
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