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December 24, 2006
Smug, Incorporated
Limousine liberals George Clooney and John Grisham are joining forces to produce movies devoted not to making money, but to "exposing miscarriages of justice" — which might be taken to mean, left-leaning moral posturing. Their first movie will be "The Innocent Man," directed by Clooney and based on a nonfiction book by Grisham about a man wrongly accused.
Clooney's father — unsurprisingly a newscaster — is credited with instilling leftist ideology into the perpetually smirking actor, who has made a multimillion dollar career out of being visibly in love with himself, and who apparently wants to funnel the money into ideological films that otherwise would not be able to stand on their own two legs financially.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at December 24, 2006 12:04 PM
Comments
isn't the cloonytic looking more and more like rock hudson everyday...
Posted by: nanc at December 24, 2006 3:54 PM
A fan of Grisham's "legal fiction," I've read his first commercial work of non-fiction, "An Innocent Man." Objectively speaking, it's hard to come away from the read with any other conclusion that the Ada, OK DA apparently did overreach in sending a schizophrenic up on a rape charge. But, as a former attorney, Grisham goes a bit overboard in suggesting at several points that the prosecution should have pointed out the weaknesses in its own case. As Grisham knows, this isn't done and isn't expected in a criminal trial. The defense needs to raise those points. I suspect that Clooney will take the thing over the top to make some idiot political statement about the GOP and Bush. You can expect it. Never fails. And ... Merry Christmas, Van H.
Posted by: monsoon at December 25, 2006 10:34 AM
Clooneys family owns a tobacco farm?
cig taxes are going up a buck a pack January 1 here in Texas.
HEY CLOON!
Hook a brutha up!
Posted by: vsoops at December 25, 2006 9:30 PM
At least it's his money - if he wants to spend it making disaster movies more power to him.
Posted by: Bandit at December 26, 2006 10:52 AM
