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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (272991)	7/10/2002 6:20:55 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 769670

Actually, I don't think this was such a bad call. Using Arabs as the bad guys may have fomented violence....

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (272991)	7/10/2002 6:51:34 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769670

By BRUCE KIRKLAND Toronto Sun HOLLYWOOD -- Ben Affleck was desperate for Tom Clancy's brusque stamp of approval to play the younger, revised version of the Jack Ryan character conjured for The Sum Of All Fears. "He's direct. He's no bulls---. He's extremely smart," Affleck says of the veteran best-selling novelist, who barks out his thoughts in forthright fashion, according to the actor. Affleck had gone to make his pitch in person. "Fortunately for me, he decided, 'I think you'd be great, kid!' " Clancy did not actually have a true veto, but as the author and as a credited executive producer -- a title he got because he asked, although it means nothing -- he at least had some influence. Especially on the wide-eyed Affleck. "I certainly wouldn't have done it if he didn't want me to," Affleck says flat-out about wanting Clancy's approval. "For one thing, I believe that authors really ought to have say over who plays (a character a writer has created). I just believe that, as a writer. "Second of all, I wouldn't want to be sitting here and have the first question out of your mouth be, 'So, Tom Clancy thinks you suck and doesn't think you should be playing it -- so why do you think you should be playing it?' "