Spielberg is making a Lincoln movie

[fisharmor]

And my state is offering incentives to have him do it here.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110504/ap_on_en_mo/us_lincoln_film?bouchon=511,dc

What are the odds that it will be a balanced view of his life?

(Remember, zero is the lowest possible probability.)

[iamse7en]

From LRC:


New Lincoln Movie Based on a Book Written by a Plagiarist and Based on a Lie (http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/70454.html)
Posted by Thomas DiLorenzo on November 20, 2010 09:37 AM

Several people have sent me articles announcing that Steven Spielberg is making a new movie on Lincoln starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Dishonest Abe, and based on the book, Team of Rivals, by confessed plagiarist Doris Kearns-Goodwin. Goodwin admitted plagiarizing possibly hundreds of pages of her previous book on the Kennedy family, and to paying a large settlement to the author she plagiarized. But since she’s a court historian and regime apologist of the most obnoxious sort, there were no negative consequences, only a movie deal for her next book. And Team of Rivals, the book the movie will be based on, is totally based on a false premise — that Lincoln was unique in appointing to his cabinet former political rivals. As though presidents never appointed people from their own party who had competed for the same position. I prove this to be a lie in this article.

So, we will be treated to a movie starring an actor who last portrayed a deranged maniacal murderer (“There Will Be Blood”) based on a book written by a confessed liar, which is itself based on yet another bundle of historical lies.

[TIMB0B]

From LRC:

Sounds like it will be good.