Oh, the Chads. The Chads!!!
By Sarah Carlson
April 2, 2007
Fresh off of doing not a whole lot, director Sydney Pollack has set his sights on "revisiting one of the most dramatic events in U.S. election history": The 2000 presidential election. "Recount" will look at the turmoil of the Florida Voting Machine Meltdown that caused a legal showdown at the Supreme Court, declared Bush the winner and sent Gore to live in a haze of bloating and self-loathing out in the wild. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the HBO Films project "chronicles the weeks after the 2000 presidential election and goes behind the scenes of the recounts in Florida to explore the human drama of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary event that would decide the leadership of the country."
Extraordinary? What's extraordinary is that The Goreacle-Hollywood love fest is spreading so quickly. HBO Films president Colin Callender said the film won't take sides, but you know Gore is already trying to schedule Power Point presentations on the film at your local Kiwanis Club. I personally can't wait to revisit Tim Russert on election night holding up the dry-erase board with the words "Florida Florida Florida"; the stupid old people who were confused by the machines; the countless volunteers who stared at pieces of paper and to this day twitch when they hear the words "hanging" and/or "chad"; Dan Abrams on the Supreme Court steps reading the verdict on air and trying to figure out what the hell had just happened; etc. Ah, it just sounds so awesome. Who said Hollywood is running out of ideas?
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