The nation met Valerie Plame in 2005, when federal prosecutors charged that the Bush administration blew the cover of the former CIA operative in order to strike back at an anti-administration op-ed column her husband, Joe Wilson, wrote in The New York Times.When the story broke and folks realized that Plame was actually a good-looking blonde with a really cool name, a refrain of "Who will play her in the movie?" rang out across the land.
Now, five years later, we know the answer. Our friends at FilmDrunk have the trailer for "Fair Game," which is based on Plame's memoir. Noami Watts will being playing Plame, and Sean Penn is the aggressively haired Joe Wilson.
The film will be directed by Doug Liman, who helmed "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," so he knows a little something about glamorous couples who have themselves a secret.
Nevertheless, Plame-gate, as it was called, seemed like it happened 100 years ago. Are you still interested? Or is this spy tale past its shelf life?
| Yup -- a real-life spy tale never gets dated | |
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| No -- fiction is usually a lot more interesting than truth |


























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Saturday 21 August
By Mooner
Perhaps Mr. Taylor should do a little more research about this movie before he blogs about it in the future:
a) Federal prosecutors never charged that the Bush administration blew Plame's cover.
b) It was a newspaper columnist, Bob Novak, who revealed Plame's identity. Novak got the information not from a vengeful Bush administration, but from Richard Armitage, a career diplomat.
c) A bipartisan Senate investigation later revealed that Joe Wilson lied in his infamous NYT op-ed.
I doubt any of the above will be in the movie, of course. Doesn't fit the liberal narrative of evil BushCo outing an innocent agent.
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