Martin Nolan: Casting Hillary: The Movie

Is she Barbara Stanwyck of Night Nurse and Baby Face? The pre-Code 1930s Stanwyck was a tough cookie who did not stay home baking them. Sally Field, Hillary Rodham Clinton's contemporary, could play her on screen. The Oscar winner for Norma Rae won again for Places in the Heart and understands politics. "You like me," she told Academy voters in 1986. "Right now, you like me." Also, her Flying Nun best describes the Clinton campaign's caucus-state strategy. If there's box-office potential in a movie about George and Laura Bush, then casting Hillary could become the biggest audience-participation show since moviegoers kibitzed Hollywood's choice for Scarlett O'Hara in 1939's Gone With the Wind . Anyone remotely interested in showbiz must acknowledge that the junior senator from New York is a trouper. Acting and politics are cousins. The former head of the Screen Actors Guild, Ronald Reagan, mused in 1988 that he used to wonder how an actor could become president. After eight years ... (link)