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Howard Dean in Hollywood: Trade Roughage 10/11/07

By Karina Longworth posted 10 months ago

Hollywood’s sexiest Lefties, George Clooney and Leonardo DiCaprio, may be teaming up to bring the, um, tragedy of Howard Dean’s presidential campaign to the screen. Clooney would direct and DiCaprio would star in Farragut North, based on a play written by one of Dean’s former aides, about “an inspiring, though unorthodox, presidential candidate [whose] career is done in by more seasoned politicos who thrive on poisonous partisan politics, dirty tricks and back-stabbing.”
In other liberal disappointments, a British judge ruled yesterday that Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth contains “nine scientific errors”, and can only be used as a teaching tool in classrooms if accompanied by “fresh guidance notes to balance Mr Gore’s ‘one-sided’ views.”
Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman is hardly sleeping on his new job as chairman of the Independent Film and Television Alliance. In the three weeks since his election, according to Variety’s DaveMcNary, he’s already made a trip to DC to lobby on behalf of IFTA and push his three-part plan: “continuing IFTA’s campaign against media consolidation; focusing on new technologies, such as protection of copyright and keeping Internet access on a level playing field (’net neutrality’); and stepping up international outreach.” He’s been so busy that he apparently hasn’t had time for a new headshot–the Variety story features a pic of Kaufman on the set of Poultrygeist.