Mar 25 2009Dennis Quaid Working on His Clinton Impression
If you've got an HBO subscription, keep an eye out for Dennis Quaid to be playing that president from all the McDonald's and semen monologue jokes. The gruff-speaking actor has signed on to play Bill Clinton in the Frost/Nixon playwright's directorial debut, The Special Relationship, a TV movie that, surprisingly, has nothing to do with infidelity. Rather, it's "about the unique and sometimes turbulent political relationship between the newly installed [Tony Blair] and the U.S. president," and Frost/Nixon's Michael Sheen, already Blair twice before, will again play the prime minister. Julianne Moore will co-star as Hillary, so, you know, either a joke about gaining ankle weight or something about a pantsuit fitting.
Quaid to play Bill Clinton in 'Special' [Variety]
Reader Comments
1. orb205 - March 25, 2009 4:35 PM
Sounds delightfully boring
2. automaton - March 25, 2009 11:09 PM
I fear Quaid doesn't have the chops to pull off the Big Dawg.. but Moore should do justice to Hillary. Unfortunately, the title appears to be designed to elicit more of the tired jokes like the ones in the post.
3. Galtacticus - March 26, 2009 10:35 AM
Who's he!? What's he doing here!? Who's responsible!?
4. che-che - March 26, 2009 10:36 AM
well, doesnt surprise me, i;m sure he got jealous that bush got a movie made. so he has to settle for a made for tv special.
5. sully - March 26, 2009 12:26 PM
Michael Sheen, Tony Blain for life (HOLLA!)
6. jp.frothy - March 26, 2009 5:50 PM
They must have seen Quaid's Clinton impression in Flight of the Phoenix.
Hopefully they didn't.