Oct 31, 2007

The Costume Remains The Same...

Happy Halloween.

33 comments:

  1. Anonymous8:31 PM

    Happy Halloween and Happy Anniversary!

    Anyone notice that Halloween is being promoted more this year because stores need you to buy, buy, buy.
    Don't forget to load the teens up out collecting can goods for food drives.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Anonymous1:02 AM

    It must be Halloween ...

    Matt Dillon to play Fitzi

    By William Booth
    Washington Post Staff Writer
    Thursday, October 25, 2007; Page C01


    MEMPHIS -- What Hollywood is calling "the Judith Miller movie" is now
    filming on location here, but prepare yourselves: Some changes are being
    made to the story inspired by the outing of a CIA agent.

    For starters, in the movie Judith Miller is no longer Judith Miller of the
    New York Times, but Rachel Armstrong of the Washington Capital Sun. And
    while the real Judith Miller may be remembered as a stylish, slightly scary
    reporter of 59, headed off to jail in a quilted black jacket and
    tortoise-frame sunglasses, in the movie she is a sizzling Kate Beckinsale,
    34, dressed in a, shall we say, form-fitting skirt.



    Vera Farmiga, left, as CIA operative Erica Van Doren and Kate
    Beckinsale as journalist Rachel Armstrong play fictionalized versions of CIA
    operative Valerie Plame and New York Times reporter Judith Miller in
    "Nothing but the Truth's" take on the 2005 identity leak. (By Alan
    Spearman -- Yari Film Group)

    Trust us, if this Rachel Armstrong had asked I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby how to
    spell Valerie Plame's name, he would have taken pen in hand. (Miller
    famously wrote in her notebook "Valerie Flame.")

    "People could say Kate is too good-looking to be a reporter," admits Rod
    Lurie, the writer and director of the independently financed film.

    On Friday in Memphis, which through movie magic is transformed into
    Washington, D.C., the crew was shooting a scene in the newsroom of the
    Memphis Commercial Appeal. Armstrong has just returned to her newspaper,
    shaken, from a grilling by a politically ambitious special prosecutor who
    wants her secret source, dammit. "I won't give it to them," Beckinsale's
    character says, a prop muffin in her hands, her lip trembling ever so
    slightly. "No way."

    With this scandal, a director could have gone either way: comedy or drama.
    Lurie goes with a fast-paced drama, a thriller about the First Amendment and
    motherhood, as he raises the stakes by making both the spy and the
    journalist moms with young children. So the spy is fearful not only for her
    job, but for her family's safety, and when Beckinsale gets sent off to the
    slammer she leaves little Timmy behind -- for 18 months. (In real life,
    Miller did 85 days.)

    In the movie -- surprise! -- journalists are good, decent, honest and
    somewhat retro. Like Robert Redford in "All the President's Men," which is
    one of Lurie's favorite films. Rachel/Kate is a crusading investigative
    reporter, says Lurie, a former entertainment journalist, "and we do put
    journalism in a favorable light." (Lurie previously directed "The Contender"
    with Joan Allen and was the executive producer of the TV show "Commander in
    Chief" with Geena Davis.)

    How would Beckinsale describe her character? "She's a working mom. Her
    marriage is in a lull. Her husband is a novelist, and there are issues of
    professional jealousy. And this is the biggest story of her career," says
    Beckinsale between scenes, in a slight British accent that she loses to play
    Armstrong. "I think, yes, she is a good journalist," and here Beckinsale
    gives us a throaty laugh, "given that I've always seen you people as the
    enemy."

    You people. By which Beckinsale certainly is not referring to journalists'
    vital role as the counterbalance to the overreaching powers of the state.
    Nope, she means movie reviewers. (Beckinsale has appeared in several vampire
    films, such as "Van Helsing," so she is pretty familiar with what critics do
    for a living.)

    While the movie is only "inspired by" the Libby leak, Beckinsale did meet
    for lunch with the real Judith Miller, who left the New York Times and is
    now a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and continues to write about
    national security. The actress described Miller as "elegant, candid, bright,
    extremely pretty" and more "delicate" than she expected. Beckinsale called
    the lunch "wonderful" but also a little "weird," because though the movie is
    not a documentary, audiences will confuse reality and art, and "she knows
    this and I know this, so okay, we just wanted to give each other a sniff."
    They talked about Miller's time in jail. Miller, who has no business
    connection with the movie, did not return an e-mail and phone call from The
    Washington Post.

    The movie is currently called "Nothing but the Truth," as opposed to, say,
    Valerie Plame Wilson's recently published memoir, which is called "Fair
    Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House," or her husband
    Joseph Wilson's book, "The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to
    War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity: A Diplomat's Memoir."

    In real life, the Plame/Libby/Miller affair was a little confusing --
    ethically, journalistically, narratively. The film version is both slimmed
    down and pumped up. "The film derives from real events, as you can see,"
    explains Lurie, sitting in his trailer between scenes, "but then it goes off
    on its own direction."



    "It's a jumping-off point."

    While the movie is still being filmed, and many elements could change or end
    up on the cutting-room floor, the basic outline is this: A modern-day
    fictional president is almost assassinated, and the finger is pointed at
    Venezuela. In the course of her diligent reporting, and without revealing
    her source (and our lips are vacuum-sealed), Beckinsale outs Erica Van Doren
    as a CIA agent pretending to be a mere soccer mom. She's married to the
    former ambassador to Great Britain, who's an outspoken critic of the
    fictional administration. (Any resemblance to Joe Wilson is purely
    intentional.)



    Vera Farmiga, left, as CIA operative Erica Van Doren and Kate
    Beckinsale as journalist Rachel Armstrong play fictionalized versions of CIA
    operative Valerie Plame and New York Times reporter Judith Miller in
    "Nothing but the Truth's" take on the 2005 identity leak. (By Alan
    Spearman -- Yari Film Group)


    In Hollywood, everybody gets an injection of youth. So in the movie the
    outed spook is played by Vera Farmiga, 34, whose breakout role was in last
    year's "The Departed." Her ambassador husband is played by Jamey Sheridan of
    the TV show "Law & Order: Criminal Intent." From a brief snippet of
    unedited film, we can tell you that Farmiga plays her spy as one tough
    cookie who is fluent in profanity. She accuses Rachel Armstrong of being "a
    toady for the administration." The Judith Miller character also gets a
    husband, a professional novelist (he writes thrillers about the Mossad)
    played by David Schwimmer, formerly of "Friends."

    In the role of special prosecutor Patton Dubois, a character Lurie says is
    modeled after the real Libby prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, Lurie chose
    actor Matt Dillon.

    In a scene filmed Friday, the newspaper's in-house counsel, Avril Aaronson,
    played by Noah Wyle ("ER"), remarks that the appointment of a special
    prosecutor is not good news for the paper. "Unlimited time, unlimited moola
    and unlimited publicity," warns Wyle, who in a later scene ticks off the
    prosecutor's r¿sum¿ -- U.S. attorney in Northern Michigan, lead prosecutor
    on the embassy bombing case in Nairobi -- and says, "He's been the next big
    thing for a while now. . . . He's hot stuff and wants to run for office."

    For his part, Wyle sat down with constitutional law expert and professor
    Floyd Abrams, who argued for Miller and the New York Times in the leak case.
    Abrams is serving as a technical adviser on the film and will play the role
    of a judge. They talked First Amendment and Abrams's recollections of what
    Miller went through. "In my little circle in California," Wyle says, "she
    wasn't exactly the symbol of the bastion of free expression. . . . She was
    more the apologist for the administration." But Wyle says the film doesn't
    really go there.

    Starring in the role of the boss (a.k.a. Bill Keller of the New York Times)
    is Angela Bassett as Bonnie Benjamin, editor in chief of the Capital Sun,
    who tells Rachel in one scene, "If you want to go to war, we're behind you,"
    meaning, of course, not the war in Iraq, but the war against the special
    prosecutor.

    Then she utters these immortal words: "The paper will pay your legal fees to
    the end."

    ReplyDelete
  3. Anonymous9:19 PM

    Your Honor...Judge Stevens...

    With all due respect. Make a ruling.

    Are you going to let former Governor George Ryan to remain out on bail until you decide on whether or not you will hear his case.

    It's as simple as that.

    Celeste Aida

    November 1, 2007

    ReplyDelete
  4. Anonymous7:05 AM

    "Slingblade the Bounty Hunter'

    Letz dew this Fizzt...mmm...mmm

    ReplyDelete
  5. Anonymous3:11 PM

    Papers: Jesuits Were Warned about Abusive Priest, by Barbara Bradley Hagerty, NPR, October 29, 2007

    More abused kids, more cover-ups. The cover-ups and the shufflers are just as bad. Did the Founding Fathers want a wall of separation of church and state for a reason?

    Interesting how the Republicans are crying foul since Obama and Hillary are borrowing from their bag of tricks.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Anonymous5:42 PM

    To Anon, thanks for the link, I'll pass it along. Great pic of McGuire with Mother Theresa.

    As regular justice bloggers know, I am a survivor and belong to SNAP, Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.

    I've seen "Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists".

    I have linked you to the LOC, Library of Congress, so you can see the letter too.

    Look at the OBLITERATED word before the phrase 'wall of separation between church and state'. This obliteration is just above the block of editing.

    The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1. General Correspondence. 1651-1827
    Thomas Jefferson to Danbury, Connecticut, Baptist Association, January 1, 1802, with Copy


    "...thus building a XXXXXXXXXX wall of separation between church and state."

    The entire letter is a mystery. And a few years ago the FBI analyzed the obliteration and the letter.

    Jefferson almost always used a 'polygraph' copier. He would write and his pen was connected to a machine that automatically & identically reproduced what his pen put on paper.

    This is believed to be Jefferson's copy of what is known as "Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists."

    However, it's unlikely that he would have sent such a letter to anyone. It's too heavily edited.

    The recipient, the congregation at Danbury Baptist, does not have a copy of this letter.

    Celeste Aida

    Pink Floyd - Comfortably numb - The wall

    ReplyDelete
  7. Anonymous8:25 AM

    CAida. I'm sorry about what happened to you -- and I hope you got a boatload of cash like so many others. It's creepy how many lay people knew/know about the abuse and kept/keep silent to this day. My catholic friends tell me they are guilted into silence. WTF?

    ReplyDelete
  8. Anonymous8:27 AM

    And the death penalty. Where's the outrage?

    ReplyDelete
  9. Anonymous11:52 AM

    anyone up for pressing the Chicago "mayor" into using the newest lazer technology for water purification? We are having outstanding results here in Corydon. It'll save you tons in TAXES. But, I'm just a "schizo" that knows nothing, right? The patriot list is just a "joke" as well. Sarah Jean
    don't ever rename me again
    Mr. President- thumbs up- sprint to the end. Hope Fitz enjoys his marriage sentence.

    ReplyDelete
  10. Anonymous2:14 PM

    YouTube - The Jesuit-Vatican Assassination of President JFK PART 23

    http://www.informationliberation.com/?multimedia

    You can google just about every church plus child molestation/rape along with corruption of churches.

    Catholic World News : How to Judge the Bishops' Response

    Sins and lies of the elite fathers/mothers indeed. Wonder how many authored textbooks or taught classes? What is the Bar Association all about anyway?

    ReplyDelete
  11. Anonymous5:15 PM

    I am curious, CA, are you still a practicing Catholic?

    ReplyDelete
  12. Anonymous11:21 AM

    Cele|bitchy » Jerry Seinfeld

    Interesting about old Seinfeld. I seen him on a news program drumming up his movie, he was asked about the real life bee problem. He was rather flippant about that, it is almost like Jerry is trying to sell himself or make himself over. I wonder why?
    I would post the links about the can-scam in MI that came from the Seinfeld show but it looks like someone doesn't want those accessed now.
    Was that the final show rerun I seen the other night? He mentioned the "same 20 boxes of cereal"-- could it be that Seinfeld was the Grandfather of the Branding Boom?

    "Seinfeld was on Letterman, where he called Lapine “a wacko.”
    Why is this woman a "wacko" for writing a cookbook? Did she get on Oprah?

    Surely the Seinfelds did not need the money. As Jerry bragged on one gossip show, "Because we are rich and we can do what we want (The Bee Movie)." I bet a lot of artists wish they could do want they wanted to do with their art too. Now that would be interesting and revealing.

    ReplyDelete
  13. Anonymous7:42 PM

    Julie Ruder is being groomed for somethin'.

    ReplyDelete
  14. Anonymous8:30 PM

    Mukasey Is (Much) Worse Than Gonzales - Yahoo! News

    Freakin' great. Why do the reporters wait to speak up?

    ReplyDelete
  15. Anonymous8:49 PM

    Chicago Business News, Analysis & Articles | Julie Ruder | Crain's

    Ms. Ruder sounds awesome, this country needs her. (Hopefully someone doesn't try to stifle her talent.)

    ReplyDelete
  16. Anonymous6:02 AM

    To naschkatze,

    You asked: "I am curious, CA, are you still a practicing Catholic?"

    No. I attempted suicide in 7th Grade and ended up in the ER.

    Decades later, after I filed my complaint, the Archdiocese treated me gently and fairly. I am grateful for their kindnesses.

    I respect the work that Barbara Blaine and SNAP has done. They have brought light to the suffering that ensues when authority figures abuse their power over children and vulnerable adults.

    I oppose the sexualization of children.

    However, that being said, I have had to acknowledge with great sorrow, that the sexualization of children is inevitable.

    The ruling oligarchs want it that way.

    Celeste Aida

    ReplyDelete
  17. Anonymous10:08 AM

    I wonder what the manipulators, groomers, and child rapists stay hidden and in their secret societies? It is rather telling about Madonna, opps... Madge, or is it Esther? when she doesn't let her own children watch TV and writes children's books about English Roses? (Psst, it is interesting that young girls started thinking they were all bi-sexual not long after that.)

    Now is it true about the kiss with Britney-- the black/white costumes,(Britney tried to recreate the Madonna's black outfit in the disaster comeback) the dances, the passing of power? But when Britney started to rise, who helped destroy her and celebrated via Vanity Fair's party and cover?

    We won't even talk about the the other music promoted by MTV and clothing by the machine.

    People should out them one by one, starting with the top. Wonder where that expression came from 'that **** rolls downhill'?

    Forgive yourself, CA. You should know that the reasoning in your brain isn't fully developed till past your teens. The sick and evil bastards at the top sure do. They are so good at convincing the victims that they are at fault or making them the patsies. It is time to take the guilt and heartache and give it right back to them. Out the manipulators.

    ReplyDelete
  18. Anonymous2:32 PM

    That's interesting about Julie. When I saw her at the Black trial, I thought she'd be perfect for Fitz -- she's smart aggressive, pretty. But she may be TOO aggressive.

    I also thought her divorced status might turn off a good Catholic boy. Seems Fitz ain't so Catholic afterall.

    ReplyDelete
  19. Anonymous5:33 PM

    Not Guilty Plea for SoCal Sheriff

    Corrupt sheriff plus his wife AND his mistress.

    "According to prosecutors, the head of the nation's fifth-largest sheriff's department conspired to enrich himself and others by trading cash and gifts for political favors. Carona, who is free on $20,000 bond, has denied the allegations and said he will be vindicated at trial."

    Good Luck, Prosecutors and good LE.

    ReplyDelete
  20. Anonymous5:39 PM

    The Raw Story | Twelve senators introduce bill to outlaw voter 'caging'

    Now is there any reason for any senator or rep. to vote against this bill or the President to veto it?

    Enough of cheating the voters, citizens and our children.

    ReplyDelete
  21. Look at all this Holly Golightly rhetoric here ! Basking in moonbeams too long methinks.

    Revert to the second last scene in "Breakfast at Tiffanys".

    Listen to Paul's words.

    It's "you'll" 2 a t ...

    ReplyDelete
  22. Hey Fitz,

    Kudos from GEF & Suzie-Q!

    Couldn't have happened to a nicer Junkyard Dog!

    Hee hee hee!

    ReplyDelete
  23. Anonymous8:33 AM

    Oct. 12, 1999 (abc) in Pakistan, interesting how the same thing was going on, only we were being warned about Bushie's friend being the terrorist. Wonder who the real terrorists are since we have dumped all that money there and nothing has changed? Another strange thing, how come a couple of reporters (new ones) claiming that al-qaeda are beheading Pakistan Military members and on the move into Pakistan still have their heads when they claimed to have been right there and seen it all? How many reporters have lost their lives since 9/11?

    They sure don't have democracy, do they?

    It is interesting how the "news" on network TV in the middle of the night is so different than the morning and evening.

    What are these guys doing?

    Rubicon International Services - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    ReplyDelete
  24. Sorry, Atty. Fitzgerald and Atty. Comey--you're going to get hit. Maybe you'll survive the stroke, maybe not--but I am sure that you will constantly get hit the way Aaron Alexis was. When all is said and done, would law enforcement officially say that you are delusional? Serves you right, including the two accidents.

    ReplyDelete
  25. and don't forget to kill BOB P. BURNS AND ALL HIS FRIENDS.

    ---Aileen Aranzamendez-Large----by the way, BOB P. BURNS WORKED FOR HOMELAND SECURITY AS A DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL TECH, HE NOW WORKS FOR DARPA. If he or any of his friends cannot arrest me for writing this---what does that tell you about me? I AM NOT CRAZY. I AM ALLOWED TO WRITE THESE THINGS AND WHEN BOB P BURNS IS KIDAPPED, ALONG WITH HIS FRIENDS---that tells you that I am right all along.
    So be smart and help me. I keep my promises.

    DON'T FORGET MY NAME: AILEEN ARANZAMENDEZ-LARGE ALSO KNOWN AS AILEEN LARGE. if you googled and you read this---then be smart about it--the tech I am talking about is true and I will sue for billions of dollars with the others too.

    ReplyDelete
  26. TO PRINT: RE: CVS CAREMARKThe ops, class (td?), school is (us) IS REALLY MESSING U0 (hit Donald Trump for not stopping this) UP medication. Male (typo) Make sure to torture the military people who are doing this to me. It is a complete waste of my and the people I spoke with time. They are messing up my insulin order.
    1. I got a text from Care(po pi) CVS Caremark at 3:01 pm (make sure that guilty part of the US is burnt to death for this) stating: CVS Caremark: Good news, we've approved the request for coverage for:
    Rx beginning with: TA
    Contact your pharmacy to fill your Rx.
    View status:u.cvs/CZVKmatUI
    2. Then I got a phone call with automation saying that it was approved and that I should contact my pharmacy. 1-800-552-8159
    3. I called Wegman Pharmacy, Amanda said that there is no record it is approved. Call Caremark CVS
    4. I called Caremark. Linda said that there is no record.
    5. She transferred me to Eduardo prior authorization. He said there is no record of approval.
    He transferred me to Carolyn--precertification department. She said that there is no record of approval.
    *****Where did the text and the phone automation message come from? Who is manipulating the system again to mess up my meds? They do this to doctors too--I've seen it happen--including to Dr. Klein. Make sure that these bastards are burnt to death. I will print this and send it to the CEO of Aetna and Caremark. In the meantime, I will not worry about it. At the very least, the CEO and important people will know my name and will be alerted about these horrific cyber mind control directed energy weapons.

    They should worry about it b ec. the people doin g it are not held accountable and it is very important that they are arrested or burnt to death. I still do not like Kash Patel, the Dir of the FBI. I will never like that man who takes credit for the things that Atty. Christopher Wray had worked for and organized. He did even have the graciousness to mention that a lot for the work was already done by Atty. Wray. That is how he gets ahead. (if you want we can push the Congressional hearing sooner than later--that's if that idiot Patel will do anything that will upset me.)
    The perpetrators will be burnt to death when they least expect it--you when they expect it.
    Sincerely,
    Aileen Aranzamamendez-Large https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/18142441/6333690672151704748 url above 3/28/2025 5:12 pm

    ReplyDelete
  27. TO PRINT whole page and mark this in yellow and mail: RE: CVS CAREMARKThe ops, class (td?), school is (us) IS REALLY MESSING U0 (hit Donald Trump for not stopping this) UP medication. Male (typo) Make sure to torture the military people who are doing this to me. It is a complete waste of my and the people I spoke with time. They are messing up my insulin order.
    1. I got a text from Care(po pi) CVS Caremark at 3:01 pm (make sure that guilty part of the US is burnt to death for this) stating: CVS Caremark: Good news, we've approved the request for coverage for:
    Rx beginning with: TA
    Contact your pharmacy to fill your Rx.
    View status:u.cvs/CZVKmatUI
    2. Then I got a phone call with automation saying that it was approved and that I should contact my pharmacy. 1-800-552-8159
    3. I called Wegman Pharmacy, Amanda said that there is no record it is approved. Call Caremark CVS
    4. I called Caremark. Linda said that there is no record.
    5. She transferred me to Eduardo prior authorization. He said there is no record of approval.
    He transferred me to Carolyn--precertification department. She said that there is no record of approval.
    *****Where did the text and the phone automation message come from? Who is manipulating the system again to mess up my meds? They do this to doctors too--I've seen it happen--including to Dr. Klein. Make sure that these bastards are burnt to death. I will print this and send it to the CEO of Aetna and Caremark. In the meantime, I will not worry about it. At the very least, the CEO and important people will know my name and will be alerted about these horrific cyber mind control directed energy weapons.

    They should worry about it b ec. the people doin g it are not held accountable and it is very important that they are arrested or burnt to death. I still do not like Kash Patel, the Dir of the FBI. I will never like that man who takes credit for the things that Atty. Christopher Wray had worked for and organized. He did even have the graciousness to mention that a lot for the work was already done by Atty. Wray. That is how he gets ahead. (if you want we can push the Congressional hearing sooner than later--that's if that idiot Patel will do anything that will upset me.)
    The perpetrators will be burnt to death when they least expect it--you when they expect it.
    Sincerely,
    Aileen Aranzamamendez-Large https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/18142441/6333690672151704748 url above 3/28/2025 5:12 pm

    ReplyDelete