HBO takes on Dick (Richard Bruce) Cheney- Based On: "The Dark Side"

[kpete]

HBO takes on Dick (Richard Bruce) Cheney

USA Today has the hot news from deadline.com...
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/03/hbo-to-do-series-on-dick-cheney/1
HBO has optioned the book Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Barton Gellman for a miniseries to be executive produced by Paula Weinstein.

The mini, which will be based on the bestselling book and the Frontline documentary The Dark Side, tells the story of Richard Bruce Cheney from his early days as Donald Rumsfeld's protege in the Nixon administration, to the nation's youngest Chief of Staff under President Ford, to serving as Secretary of Defense under George H.W. Bush, through two controversial terms as Vice President under President George W. Bush.

According to the producers, the project will center on Cheney's "single-minded pursuit of enhanced power for the Presidency (that) was unprecedented in the nation's history."


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Well gollee gosh! Guess I'm gonna buy me one of them teevee sets, see what a real American patriot fella looks like.
http://prairieweather.typepad.com/big_blue_stem/2011/03/hbo-takes-on-dick-richard-bruce-cheney.html

[DCKit]

1. If half the shit he pulled is included, it should be lotsa fun. nt

[H2O Man]

2. It is a good book.

I hope HBO does it justice.

[Shallah Kali]

3. Video of 'The Dark Side' documentary on pbs website

After 9/11, Vice President Richard Cheney seized the initiative. He pushed to expand executive power, transform America's intelligence agencies and bring the war on terror to Iraq. But first he had to take on George Tenet's CIA for control over intelligence

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/

[spanone]

4. why not base a mini series on palin's view of america? i'm sure it's not much different

[Shallah Kali]

6. cheney seems an ideological rightwinger while palin is a religious right winger

and cheney is more intelligent, the power behind the throne not the pretty puppet in front, tho both are cunning and willing to do much to get their own way...

[Shallah Kali]

5. Also interesting documentary w/some Cheney History "Code Name: Artichoke"

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4101486553380613111#

script on The Frank Olsen Project
http://www.frankolsonproject.org/Articulations/Script-CodeNameArtichoke.html