Posted on 02/05/2013 10:23:06 AM PST by NoLibZone
WASHINGTON — Jon Favreau's career took off when, at age 23, he interrupted U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama during a speech rehearsal to offer some suggestions for improvement.
That cheeky move led to a seven-year tour as Obama's lead speechwriter, an assignment that ends March 1 as Favreau considers trying his hand at another form of drama — as a screenwriter, perhaps in Los Angeles.
The departure subtracts a vivid personality from the president's operation, defined since the beginning by Obama's spoken words and the team that wrote them.
After Favreau landed in the White House four years ago, he became the most recognizable in a coterie of young staffers. Sporting aviator sunglasses and a buzz cut, he occasionally lit up social media with his antics.
PHOTOS: President Obama’s past
People magazine named him one of the world's most beautiful people. He went out with actress Rashida Jones, best known for her role in "The Office." One night, as he and some friends played a shirtless game of beer pong in Georgetown, someone snapped a photo that ended up on the blog FamousDC, with the headline: "White House Gone Wild."
But about the writing, Favreau was always serious, telling peers it was a solemn responsibility to remain in sync with the president's thinking.
"When they're working together, it's like watching two musicians riff," said David Axelrod, Obama's longtime advisor. "Jon's stamp is on all of the great speeches, from 2005 until now."
Favreau will turn over his seat to Cody Keenan, a Chicago native who is taking the lead on writing the State of the Union address. Keenan is an original member of the team of twentysomethings that Favreau assembled for a tough assignment: writing for a writer with
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You notice the theme in Iron Man is he has an awakening moment and stops selling arms while he enforces what he thinks is justice through his own weapons. Kind of like our current leaders. Two sets of laws. One for them and the other for us.
While in the second movie I did agree with him that it was his property and the government stole it from him.
"Quit LYING, Barack!!!"
I hit send to quick. That said it is not the same Jon Favreau. The Hollywood guy is a bit older. He plays Iron Man’s driver in the second movie and the nut linebacker in the Replacements. The other one look like a fairy.
Watch for the new Obama White House series on NBC this fall: “The LEFT WING”
Is it a coincidence that Edison invented both the lightbulb and the movie camera?
He has plenty of experience writing fiction.
Yes.
And the phonograph?
I supose there must be a unifying element among Edison inventions, unless he was a pure polymath. Possibly they are all electrical, but that doesn’t seem correct. Whatever it is, it doesn’t much relate to our argument.
This guy Favreau is still getting a payoff from the Hollywood Left for being a team player. Writing speeches for a gasbag like Obama does not qualify anybody to craft screenplays. But the same people paid Valerie Plame a lot of money for her completely uninteresting life story just to stick a thumb in GW Bush’s eye. This is what goes on there.
And per Edison, what about ...Talking Pictures?!
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