{"id":4037,"date":"2010-04-25T13:58:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T17:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=4037"},"modified":"2010-04-27T00:21:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T04:21:46","slug":"fingers-crossed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/25\/fingers-crossed-2\/","title":{"rendered":"fingers crossed&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/spy-talk\/2010\/04\/plame_flick_cia_thriller_to_de.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Valerie Plame flick, CIA thriller, to debut at Cannes<\/strong><\/a> <strong><br \/>        Washington Post<\/strong><br \/>        by: Jeff Stein<br \/>        April 24, 2010<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/4\/4c\/Vpw_fairgame.jpg\" \/>Talk about making lemonade from a lemon:  Former undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame gets a star turn next month at the Cannes Film Festival  with the debut of &ldquo;Fair Game,&rdquo;  based on the ordeal she and diplomat husband Joe  Wilson suffered from a White House campaign to discredit his role  in exposing the fabrication of intelligence justifying the invasion of  Iraq. &ldquo;Suffer,&rdquo; of course, is relative, when you&rsquo;ve been catapulted to liberal  icon, pictured on the cover of Vanity Fair , written a best-selling memoir  and portrayed by Australian megastar <strong>Naomi Watts<\/strong> in a major feature  film. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" height=\"130\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/t2.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:bjKSsx5Qi6NocM:http:\/\/i100.photobucket.com\/albums\/m22\/testblogger\/NaomiWatts_Cohen_12908181_Max.jpg\" \/>Sean Penn<\/strong> plays her husband Wilson, who  ripped the lid off a phony document used by the Bush administration to  accuse Saddam Hussein of secretly buying uranium from Niger to make a  nuclear bomb. It&rsquo;s the second Hollywood take on the Plame affair. But 2008&rsquo;s highly  fictionalized &ldquo;Nothing  But the Truth&rdquo; focused on then-New York Times reporter Judith Miller&rsquo;s  jail stint for refusing to reveal the source of her information that  Plame,  an undercover CIA agent, played a role in her husband&#8217;s  assignment to investigate the Niger document.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" hspace=\"4\" height=\"117\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/t0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:iBOYur_0j4ch2M:http:\/\/geoffreyeichhorn.com\/images\/sean-penn-1-0907-lg.jpg\" \/>Based on the Plame memoir by the same name, &ldquo;Fair Game,&rdquo; directed by Doug Liman [&ldquo;The Bourne Identity&rdquo;], is  still searching for a distributor, according to news reports. But according to Los Angeles Times blogger Steven  Zeitchik, Summit Entertainment, &ldquo;best known for distributing the  films in the Kristen Stewart vampire franchise, has an offer on the  table.&rdquo; Summit &ldquo;got a pretty strong taste of awards glory,&rdquo; Zeitchik noted  Thursday, when it bought distribution rights to &quot;The Hurt Locker,&quot; the  dark-horse winner of this year&rsquo;s Best Picture.  <\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"405\" height=\"280\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/berkeley.edu\/news\/media\/releases\/2005\/11\/images\/joe_wilson.jpg\" \/>   <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">I wonder if the movie will have [<strong>REDACTED<\/strong>] scenes. God, I hope they did this one right!&#8230; <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valerie Plame flick, CIA thriller, to debut at Cannes Washington Post by: Jeff Stein April 24, 2010 Talk about making lemonade from a lemon: Former undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame gets a star turn next month at the Cannes Film Festival with the debut of &ldquo;Fair Game,&rdquo; based on the ordeal she and diplomat husband [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}