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Spike Lee Admits Cain Candidacy a Hoax for New ‘Mockumentary’ Film
Spike Lee Admits Cain Candidacy a Hoax for New ‘Mockumentary’ Film
Alan Smithee
Film Reviewer
Toronto Post and Mail
Oct. 21, 2011
EXCLUSIVE
“I can’t believe it,” a grinning Spike Lee told this reporter yesterday, relaxing in the lounge of the Nikko Hotel’s Star Bar in downtown Toronto. “We thought we might get some media coverage, but not that Herman would get this far!”
In a stunning revelation, the famed American writer/director of such classic hit comedies as “Do the Right Thing,” and “She’s Gotta Have It,” and more serious films such as “Malcolm X” and “Mo’ Better Blues,” explained that he had hired an actor named Grey Goodwin to ‘portray’ Herman Cain for a political mockumentary he’s making with the working title, “Citizen Cain,” about a buffoonish African-American who campaigns for the U.S. presidency as a conservative Republican.
“Man, I just thought we’d get some footage of this cat talking to Republican voters and like that,” Mr. Lee elaborated, “but I never, in my wildest dreams, thought he’d get into these debates or anything.”
According to the writer/director, there is a real Herman Cain, a pizza chain executive, but he’s on a secluded vacation with his family in Switzerland until December. Mr. Lee said that the real Herman Cain is a fan of his films and agreed to go along with the hoax when Mr. Lee presented the idea to him last year.
“See, then I went out and found me a cat who looks and talks like the real Herman Cain to play him in the film, and that wasn’t easy, but we knocked it.”
Mr. Lee went on to say that all of the ‘Goodwin/Cain’s’ policies and speeches have been written by him. “Grey, he’s just such a damn great actor, he really knocked it out of the park on this role,” adding ruefully, “Have you noticed nobody is really getting down and calling Cain out for his ridiculous positions that don’t make no sense? I could probably have him say he’s gonna make a law that we’ll have sunny skies 365 days a year and they’d buy that, too!”
But Mr. Lee was troubled with the success of his hoax, “See, we put this scam over on the Republican voters and the Republican Party, but what really worries me is that so many media people bought it. Now we got Grey’s fake Cain leading Romney in the polls. Can you dig on that s--t?”
Mr. Lee said when he returns to New York next week, he’s going to call a press conference to reveal the hoax, and expects his mockumentary to be finished and released before the American elections in November of 2012. “I may have to go into hiding after this joint,” Mr. Lee said jokingly, ending our interview.
He is expected to accept the Durward Kirby Adult Film Award tomorrow night at Macduff University’s Malcolm Hall North Annex in Southeast Westlake Park.
This is satire, BTW.
Copyright 2011 RS Janes
www.fishink.us
Alan Smithee
Film Reviewer
Toronto Post and Mail
Oct. 21, 2011
EXCLUSIVE
“I can’t believe it,” a grinning Spike Lee told this reporter yesterday, relaxing in the lounge of the Nikko Hotel’s Star Bar in downtown Toronto. “We thought we might get some media coverage, but not that Herman would get this far!”
In a stunning revelation, the famed American writer/director of such classic hit comedies as “Do the Right Thing,” and “She’s Gotta Have It,” and more serious films such as “Malcolm X” and “Mo’ Better Blues,” explained that he had hired an actor named Grey Goodwin to ‘portray’ Herman Cain for a political mockumentary he’s making with the working title, “Citizen Cain,” about a buffoonish African-American who campaigns for the U.S. presidency as a conservative Republican.
“Man, I just thought we’d get some footage of this cat talking to Republican voters and like that,” Mr. Lee elaborated, “but I never, in my wildest dreams, thought he’d get into these debates or anything.”
According to the writer/director, there is a real Herman Cain, a pizza chain executive, but he’s on a secluded vacation with his family in Switzerland until December. Mr. Lee said that the real Herman Cain is a fan of his films and agreed to go along with the hoax when Mr. Lee presented the idea to him last year.
“See, then I went out and found me a cat who looks and talks like the real Herman Cain to play him in the film, and that wasn’t easy, but we knocked it.”
Mr. Lee went on to say that all of the ‘Goodwin/Cain’s’ policies and speeches have been written by him. “Grey, he’s just such a damn great actor, he really knocked it out of the park on this role,” adding ruefully, “Have you noticed nobody is really getting down and calling Cain out for his ridiculous positions that don’t make no sense? I could probably have him say he’s gonna make a law that we’ll have sunny skies 365 days a year and they’d buy that, too!”
But Mr. Lee was troubled with the success of his hoax, “See, we put this scam over on the Republican voters and the Republican Party, but what really worries me is that so many media people bought it. Now we got Grey’s fake Cain leading Romney in the polls. Can you dig on that s--t?”
Mr. Lee said when he returns to New York next week, he’s going to call a press conference to reveal the hoax, and expects his mockumentary to be finished and released before the American elections in November of 2012. “I may have to go into hiding after this joint,” Mr. Lee said jokingly, ending our interview.
He is expected to accept the Durward Kirby Adult Film Award tomorrow night at Macduff University’s Malcolm Hall North Annex in Southeast Westlake Park.
This is satire, BTW.
Copyright 2011 RS Janes
www.fishink.us
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Matching Prominent Republicans with Appropriate Film Titles
The story is Dan Quayle saw the 1972 Robert Redford film ‘The Candidate’ and thought it was a primer on entering politics instead of a warning about selling out one’s principles. Ronald Reagan is said to have had a regular weekly ‘movie premiere night’ while in the White House. Then we had GOP Rep. Kevin McCarthy using a clip from the 2010 Ben Affleck crime saga 'The Town’ to make a point to Teabaggers in Congress. For a party that has so much enmity towards Hollywood, seems the GOP loves itself some flicks, which got me to wondering what movie titles would accurately reflect certain prominent Republicans. For better or worse, here’s what I came up with, in no particular order:
-- Rick Perry: ‘They Live!’
-- John Boehner: ‘The Lost Weekend’
-- Mitch McConnell: ‘Hell Comes to Frogtown’ (or, ‘White Hunter, Black Heart’)
-- Mitt Romney: ‘Liar, Liar’
-- Michele Bachmann: ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’
-- Tim Pawlenty: ‘The Incredible Mr. Limpet’
-- Sarah Palin: ‘Mars Needs Women’
-- Allen West: 'Watermelon Man’
-- Paul Ryan: ‘Throw Momma from the Train’
-- Herman Cain: ‘Blackula’
-- George W. Bush: ‘Moon Over Parador’ (or, ‘Wag the Dog’)
-- Dick Cheney: ‘Above the Law’
-- Scott Walker: ‘Gone with the Wind’ (or, ‘The Great Dictator’)
-- John Kasich: ‘Joe Dirt’
-- Rick Snyder: ‘Shadow on the Land’
-- Rick Scott: ‘The Hucksters’
-- Rupert Murdoch: ‘Citizen Kane’
-- Rush Limbaugh: ‘It Came from Outer Space'
-- Glenn Beck: ‘Dumb and Dumber’
-- Bill O’Reilly: ‘The Mouse That Roared'
-- Sean Hannity: ‘Frances the Talking Mule’
-- Ann Coulter: ‘Heathers’
-- Michael Savage: ‘Home Alone’
-- Frank Luntz: ‘The Phantom of the Opera’
-- David H. Koch: ‘The Magic Christian’
-- Karl Rove: ‘Revenge of the Nerds’
-- Ron Paul: ‘Dr. Strangelove’
-- Rick Santorum: ‘Look Who’s Talking Now’
-- Newt Gingrich: ‘No Country for Old Men’ (or, 'Goldfinger')
-- Donald Trump: ‘Mr. Bug Goes to Town’ (or, ‘Hairspray')
© 2011 RS Janes. www.fishink.us
-- Rick Perry: ‘They Live!’
-- John Boehner: ‘The Lost Weekend’
-- Mitch McConnell: ‘Hell Comes to Frogtown’ (or, ‘White Hunter, Black Heart’)
-- Mitt Romney: ‘Liar, Liar’
-- Michele Bachmann: ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’
-- Tim Pawlenty: ‘The Incredible Mr. Limpet’
-- Sarah Palin: ‘Mars Needs Women’
-- Allen West: 'Watermelon Man’
-- Paul Ryan: ‘Throw Momma from the Train’
-- Herman Cain: ‘Blackula’
-- George W. Bush: ‘Moon Over Parador’ (or, ‘Wag the Dog’)
-- Dick Cheney: ‘Above the Law’
-- Scott Walker: ‘Gone with the Wind’ (or, ‘The Great Dictator’)
-- John Kasich: ‘Joe Dirt’
-- Rick Snyder: ‘Shadow on the Land’
-- Rick Scott: ‘The Hucksters’
-- Rupert Murdoch: ‘Citizen Kane’
-- Rush Limbaugh: ‘It Came from Outer Space'
-- Glenn Beck: ‘Dumb and Dumber’
-- Bill O’Reilly: ‘The Mouse That Roared'
-- Sean Hannity: ‘Frances the Talking Mule’
-- Ann Coulter: ‘Heathers’
-- Michael Savage: ‘Home Alone’
-- Frank Luntz: ‘The Phantom of the Opera’
-- David H. Koch: ‘The Magic Christian’
-- Karl Rove: ‘Revenge of the Nerds’
-- Ron Paul: ‘Dr. Strangelove’
-- Rick Santorum: ‘Look Who’s Talking Now’
-- Newt Gingrich: ‘No Country for Old Men’ (or, 'Goldfinger')
-- Donald Trump: ‘Mr. Bug Goes to Town’ (or, ‘Hairspray')
© 2011 RS Janes. www.fishink.us
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