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Hooper to be a Dick in Oliver Stone's DUBYA!
Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. — Hey folks, Harry here... I'm fascinated by the emerging image of Oliver Stone's DUBYA - it seems that what Stone is setting out to do - is to give us the ultimate satiric riff on the President and his esteemed history. The Hollywood Reporter broke today that Richard Dreyfuss has been cast as the shotgun wielding maniac, Dick Cheney. There's probably never been a Veep with the Dick's gaze of evil incarnate. Can Mr Holland capture this Sith Lord's air of pitbullishness? We'll have to see, but I think it is an amazing choice of casting. What say ye?

Man Best Known For Playing With Mashed Potatoes Takes On Dick Cheney in 'W' [Adventures In Casting]
Gawker: defamer — ... Oliver Stone's semi-comic masterpiece W may yet make its mid-October release deadline, as reports speculate Richard Dreyfuss is close to signing on as vice president Dick Cheney. The role was the only one Stone had not cast for the film, which started shooting last week in Louisiana. The 60-year-old Brooklynite who once fought off Jaws, mashed-potatoed his way into an alien abduction in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and scored a Best Actor Oscar for The Goodbye Girl, will be entrusted with Cheney's despotic war hawk in the weeks ...

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Vulture — ... Dreyfus Returns to Comedy: Richard Dreyfuss has been cast as Dick Cheney in Oliver Stone's Bush biopic, W, expected to be his funniest film since What About Bob?. [HR] ...