Posted on 01/03/2013 11:46:06 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Even before Barack Obama won re-election in November, speculation had begun over the Democratic primaries for the 2016 presidential cycle. Hillary Clinton has received most of the mention and a majority of support so far, but her relatively thin resume combined with the debacle at State she oversaw might make it difficult for her to gain enough credibility, let alone the questions over her age and health that the past few weeks have produced. What Hillary needs is a narrative changer that will focus on her highlights and overlook her actual performance, something on a grand enough scale to actually change the narrative after Benghazi and blood clots.
I suspect the studio exec that fails to green-light this project will never eat lunch in Washington again:
One of the hottest political screenplays in Tinseltown is about the outgoing secretary of state, and it’s by a 39-year-old newcomer writer from South Korea.
Dubbed “Rodham,” Young Il Kim’s screenplay follows a 20-something Hillary Rodham as she’s trying to decide between her career and boyfriend.
This is, after all, the Clintons, so the stakes are of historic proportions. Her job? The youngest attorney on the House Judiciary Committee working to impeach President Richard Nixon. Her boyfriend? Bill Clinton, who was trying to launch his political career in Arkansas.
How good are the odds that this project gets its green light?
This isn’t a history book. It’s Hollywood. And just last month, the script came in at No. 4 on Hollywood’s all-important Black List, an annual poll of nearly 300 film executives about their favorite scripts. Films that have made the list in the past: “The Social Network,” “Juno” and “The King’s Speech,” among others.
It’s not history, but that won’t be a problem for Hollywood, which routinely flunks in the subject. Don’t get me wrong — I like the biopic genre, even occasionally when the subject of the film is still alive, as in Coal Miner’s Daughter, one of the genre’s best. Most of the time, though, the films are either tedious hagiographies based on rumors and legend, or are too self-consciously attuned to modern sensibilities to be taken seriously. The Babe with John Goodman is a great example of both failings. When Hollywood gets history right, it’s usually by accident.
In this case, the interest in a Hillary Clinton biopic is almost certainly no accident. It’s true that she’s a public figure as Secretary of State, but so was Condoleezza Rice, whose life story is at least as interesting, and yet Hollywood has had no interest in her story, nor Colin Powell’s or Madeleine Albright’s, for that matter. The Clintons’ story would certainly make for an interesting cinematic take of the turmoil of the impeachment episode, but that’s not what this script will address.
Instead, it seems we’ll be treated to a story about a false dichotomy, since Hillary in the end pursued both the boyfriend and a successful legal career apart from her husband, in order to paint her as … what, exactly? Just the same as every other professional who has to balance career and personal considerations? There are plenty of young lawyers in Washington of both genders who don’t end up being partners in prestigious law firms at the age of 32, especially after failing the bar exam in Washington DC, which appears to have influenced her ultimate decision to stick with Arkansas, where she passed the bar.
If the project gets green-lighted soon and finds funding, we can probably expect a release date of … oh, early-to-mid-2015. That won’t be an accident, either.
At the rate Hillary boozes it up there is no way she will be in a physical condition to mount a campaign in four years.
Is there a love scene with Web Hubbell?
Makes perfect sense, she just had her eyes done.
Hillary is apparently in HORRIBLE health. Since the Bengazi attacks, she hasn’t been well at all. I’m not sure she’ll live long enough to run in 2016 (unless they exonerate here from having to testify truthfully about Bengazi in which case I’m sure she’ll be in great shape and live to be 100).
So, who should be cast in the role of Hillary? Who should play Bill? Monica? Web? Vince Foster? Ron Brown?
Funny how fate has away of intruding on the plans of mice and men. Three weeks ago the conventional wisdom was that Hillary Clinton should start measuring her Oval Office curtains for 2016. Today the conventional wisdom is, “Will Hillary still be alive in 2016?”
This is, after all, the Clintons, so the stakes are of historic proportions. Her job? The youngest attorney on the House Judiciary Committee working to impeach President Richard Nixon. Her boyfriend? Bill Clinton, who was trying to launch his political career in Arkansas.
Instead, it seems we’ll be treated to a story about a false dichotomy, since Hillary in the end pursued both the boyfriend and a successful legal career apart from her husband...
Dubbed “Rod Them,” Kim Jong-il’s screenplay follows a 40-something Hillary as she’s trying to decide between her career and boyfriend.
This is, after all, the Clintons, so the stakes are of historic proportions. Her job? The most corrupt person ever to cross the threshold of the White House, working to prevent the impeachment of her husband for selling nuclear missile technology to China. Her boyfriend? Vince Foster, was trying to hang on to his political career after witnessing Hillary give the order to burn entire families to death in Waco.
Instead, it seems we’ll be treated to a story about a false dichotomy, since Hillary in the end terminated both the boyfriend and the Branch Davidians to pursue a political career catering to China apart from providing her husband with bimbos to use as wag-the-dog cover stories when needed...
She dodges bullets in Kosovo deflecting them with her titanium bracelets, she crash lands into no-mans-land between Iraq and Iran in a devastating crash that finishes off less fit commandos, she walks out of a hospital unassisted after an eye lift major surgery!
She does seem to like to wet her whistle now and again.
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Jim Rob may want to call a copyright lawyer.
Lest we forget, she was summarily fired from the Watergate Committee by her supervisors for generating a completely false and mendacious legal brief concerning Nixon's right to counsel. Her boss recommended (in writing)that she never be considered for any responsible position in government again.
She also flunked the Washington, D.C. Bar exam.
Obviously.
RE: She also flunked the Washington, D.C. Bar exam.
So, which bar exam did she pass?
If he were still with us, I was thinking more along the lines of John Candy.
With her Benghazi “Clincussion”, blood clots, and boozing all
Hillary will need is to add a wheelchair and she’ll be proclaimed
the female FDR president by her adoring MSM. And, of course,
she will proudly reveal that she was inspired by her intimate
White House conversations with Eleanor Roosevelt’s ghost.
Yeah, I see your point.
She has always gotten by on special favors, not ability.
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