If the Role Fits, Play It.
Paramount Pictures will be releasing a remake of the classic motion picture The Manchurian Candidate, but the company is worried that Meryl Streep's portrayal of a U.S. senator is too close to the real Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Streep's performance is being called "edgy" and "chilling" by Hollywood insiders. Paramount big-wigs have apparently asked director Jonathan Demme to edit the film a bit in order to remove some of the more Hillaryesque gestures and expressions in the flick. Said one insider, "Meryl is brilliantly scary and evil. But she clearly seems like she's playing Sen. Hillary, not just any woman senator. It's also something test audiences have commented about." Streep's incarnation as Sen. Clinton is furthered by her Hillary hairdo and Hillary-style clothes and jewelry. "Meryl has the Hillary hand gestures totally down pat," said the source. "I don't know whether this is something she picked up subconsciously or an idea Jonathan gave her, but she's totally dead on. You feel like you're watching Hillary Clinton conspire to take over the world. The Republican Hillary-haters should totally eat this up." Meanwhile, the movie studio doesn't want to look like they're bashing Democrats, even though Hillary joined Sen. Joe Lieberman in requiring Hollywood to clean up its standards a couple of years ago. Portrait Unveiling.
Hillary was also portrayed in an official White House portrait unveiled this week with President Bush. She was painted wearing her ubiquitous black pantsuit, and is the first First Lady to be officially portrayed wearing pants. Hillary's portrait is also the first of a sitting senator in the White House. In yet another first, the Clintons were both painted by Simmie Knox, the first black artist to paint these official portraits. Mr. Knox was recommended to Hillary by her friend, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Her portrait will now be displayed one flight below the Presidents with other former first ladies. President Bush gave a lavish introduction for the woman who has spent the better part of two years bashing him at every possible opportunity on every conceivable issue, and who is apparently dedicated to kicking him out of office. After mentioning her deceased father, Hugh Rodham, the president said that Hillary "inspires respect and loyalty from those who know her, and it was a good day in both their lives when they [Bill and she] met at the library at Yale Law School." Bush also referred to her post-White House career, telling the audience, "Listen, New York politics is serious business. It's rough business. It takes an extraordinary person to campaign and win the United States Senate. She has proven herself more than equal to the challenge." For her part, Hillary was gracious when she spoke, saying that it was tough for her to stand still for so long for the portrait (she is pictured holding a copy of It Takes a Village) and that "it is a somewhat daunting experience to have your portrait hung in the White House. It is something that really does, more than any other act, sort of, puts your place in history in this building for all the ages and all the people who come through here to see and reflect upon," and "I thank you, Mr. President, for welcoming us here and for your place in history as well." So Soros.
Hillary appeared onstage with lefty billionaire and Democrat sugardaddy George Soros at a recent fundraising event. She introduced him with "effusive praise" and greeted him warmly in front of the audience of liberal activists, saying: "George Soros is using his considerable success in our democracy to make sure that his opinions are heard in the marketplace of ideas," and that another four years of President Bush "would leave this country unrecognizable." However, after Soros took the stage and let loose an incredibly distasteful attack on the administration and our troops in Iraq, even Hillary had to backtrack. Specifically, Soros said the 9/11 attacks helped bring about the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse scandal, claiming, "There is. . .a direct connection between those two events, because the way President Bush conducted the war on terror converted us from victims into perpetrators." Later, Hillary's spokesman said that "Sen. Clinton doesn't believe that 9/11 is comparable to anything else."
