Bush biographers mixed on script for Oliver Stone's 'W'


	Bush biographers mixed on script for Oliver Stone's 'W'

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4-8-2008 1:05 PM

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President George W. Bush is a foul-mouthed, reformed drunk obsessed
with baseball, Saddam Hussein and a conflicted relationship with
his dad. Or at least that's how he's portrayed in the script for
Oliver Stone's upcoming feature "W."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i1155cb8195120add876286155ef704a6"><DIV>
But how accurate is that depiction?</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i1155cb8195120add876286155ef704a6"><DIV>
Reactions to the script from the biographers were mixed. They said
specific scenes are largely based in fact but noted that the
screenplay contains inaccurate and over-the-top caricatures of Bush
and his inner circle.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i1155cb8195120add876286155ef704a6"><DIV>
"It leaves you with the impression that the White House is run as a
fraternity house with no reverence for hierarchy, the office itself
or for the implications of policy," said Robert Draper, author of
"Dead Certain: The Presidency of George Bush." "Everybody calling
everybody else nicknames and chatting about whether to go to war as
if they were chatting about how to bet on a football game really
misses the mark of how many White Houses, including this one, are
run."</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E6A3A201-B78E-40AA-AF7B-E26E7216A764/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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