Let's cast the Kavanaugh hearings movie

Nicole Kidman in a bad wig for Ford.

Wilford Brimley for Grassley.

Grant Shaud (sp?) for Kavenaugh.

Chrissy Metz for Mitchell.

Common for Cory Booker.

3 young extras from the Law and Order SVU set to play the high school party, attempted rape flashback.

What is a good name for the movie? The End of Justice? The End of a Great Country?

Too bad Charles Nelson Reilly is dead or he'd be a lock for Ms Graham.

Maybe we could call it, Evil Wins Out!?

The Accused ...wait has that been used before?

I think it's obvious who we get to play Kavanaugh... the guy who played Francis Buxton in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure:

[quote]Nicole Kidman in a bad wig for Ford.

She's already playing Gretchen Carlson in the upcoming Roger Ailes sex scandal movie.

Adrienne Barbeau as Dr. Christine Blasey Ford!

Cynthia Nixon's husband as Brett Kavanaugh!

Casting is always better looking than the "real" people, so of course Laura Linney for Dr. Ford. Josh Brolin as Bret Kavanaugh.

I'm available to play Dr Ford!

I am perfect for one of the young party goers.

R13 In a flashback montage of course.

Russel Crowe for present day Mark Judge.

Donald Sutherland can play Gramps Grassley.

Lisa Ann Walter as the sassy, confident beach friend who tells her she can't just keep quiet about this, she must go forward!

Jennifer Aniston is the closest resemblance to Ford.

R18 No way, Linney would be the best casting choice.

Laurie Metcalf for Kavanaugh's long-suffering wife.

Is there any way to turn this into a Hallmark Christmas movie? Perhaps with Kellie Martin as Dr. Ford?

Garth from WAYNE’S WORLD would be a dead ringer for Dr. Ford

Someone on another thread nailed it with Mare Winningham for Prof. Christine Blasey Ford.

Laura Linney is perfect for Ford. A bloated Ben Affleck for Kavanaugh.

Tommy Lee Jones is a PERFECT GrAssley

Kevin Spacey in his return to film as Kavanaugh with Mira Sorvino as Dr Ford == the irony would be dripping!

R7, you are a genius. I'm truly lol'ing. How on earth did you remember that?

America Ferrara as the Hispanic woman verbally assaulting Jeff Flake in the elevator.

Ross Mathews as squeaky Queen Scarlett Graham in full blown excitable blubbering tizzy!

Love it, R29. "Blubbering tizzy" has joined my linguistic repertoire.

Mason Reese as Rachel Mitchell

[quote]Wilford Brimley for Grassley.

Nah, Grassley looks like a sullen undertaker. We need someone less jolly looking.

Micheal Caine would be perfect! Can he do an American accent?!

Mare Winningham as Dr Ford

I'm seeing Cynthia Nixon's husband as a potential Ms. Mitchell. After she gains 30 pounds.

R32, Caine would be great. I just posted Brimley because I couldn't think of any other actors.

Title: They Caved for Kav

Laura Linney all the way for Ford.

Larry Wilcox as Brett Kavanaugh

As Rachel Mitchell, Melissa McCarthy, with very thick bangs !

Who will play “Tobin”, Brett’s workout/release bro buddy?

Hot pants & belly shirt required

In her long awaited return to the big screen, MADONNA as Dr. Ford!

Dame Maggie Smith as Dianne Feinstein

Kerry Washington as Kamala

This thread is hilarious

Definitely Mark Holton as Kavanaugh, PERFECT!

He has those tiny thin lips and his facial expressions are just like Kavanaugh's!

Lisa Ann Walter actually looks like Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the woman who told Kavanaugh her father was an alcoholic.

Lisa Ann would be great as Amy!

Rosie O Donnell as Brett Kavanaugh

Oh god, this thread is CLASSIC DL! I'm laughing my ass off here at work! Keep 'em coming!

[quote] R16: (bad-guy) Donald Sutherland can play Gramps Grassley

Or, nice-guy Donald Sutherland can play Dick Durban. He’s versatile! Maybe he could do both, a la Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove.

Great thread

Is Cathy Bates too old to play Rachel Mitchell? Maybe the makeup people can tart-her-up?

Will Alyssa Milano play herself?

Bates can do it. Fat people age well. A little hair dye or wig would get you 90% there. Whoever does it has to be able to act as lacking all personal warmth, at all.

“BUT YOU FLEW FOR VACATION, DIDN’T YOU?” Cue the dramatic chipmunk.

Shaun Cassidy could play Lindsey Graham.

R45 No way, Kathleen Wilhoite as Senator Amy Klobuchar!

R53 I could see Graham's "most despicable thing.." moment being an Oscar-worthy scene.

Who could play the sexy daddy Senator Blumenthal?

Danny Pintauro as Alyssa Milano.

i agree, Melissa McCarthy has to play Mitchell.

Wish I could remember the actor's name, he looked a bit like Hal Holbrook, but had brown eyes, he'd be perfect as Dick Durban.

Richard Gere as Sheldon Whitehouse, OF COURSE!

I think Melissa McCarthy should play Kavanaugh.

Steve Buscemi stretching his acting chops as...Miss Lindsey Graham!

Oh wow, I forgot about Steve Buscemi, he MUST play Senatrice Lindsey!

Who's the tiny Southern gay man actor? From Will and Grace? He's Miss Lindsey.

Melissa Leo as Alice Ward as Martha Kavanaugh

Joanna Adler as Deborah Katz!

[quote]Who's the tiny Southern gay man actor? From Will and Grace? He's Miss Lindsey.

Leslie Jordan is great, BUT Miss Lindsey, MUST have large buggy blue eyes!

How about Sean Hayes, as Miss Lindsey, though, he seems way too young.

Lea Remini as Beach friend #2, the one with the filthy mouth, whose not afraid to run it for a good cause.

{quote]What is a good name for the movie? The End of Justice? The End of a Great Country?

It's The End of the World As We Know It. REM will re-form to compose the soundtrack.

Peter Coyote as Senator Blumenthal.

Melor Waters as Beach friend #3, who silently listens and nods to the other ones offering their animated support, as she tries to discern if this guy was one of her many friends' boyfriends she slept with Sophomore year.

R71 [Melora]

Rosey O'Donnell as Mitchell.

Diane Keaton as Ford.

Laulhère slumming it as Mark Judge's douche-beret

Mariah Carey as the "Best friend"

Marceline Hugot, who played Kathy Geiss on "30 Rock," would be PERFECT for Rachel Mitchell.

Donatella Versace as Melania.

R67 He would ace that part. Maybe with some great makeup he could pull it off.

Keegan-Michael Key as Cory Booker

I'm already working on a screenplay for HBO. I just hope that cunt Susannah Grant isn't working on one too. I hated Confirmation.

Kathy Bates would be perfect for the Senatrice.

[quote] Miss Lindsey, MUST have large buggy blue eyes!

cue Allison Janney

James Woods for Sen. Amy Klobuchar‘s alcoholic father.

R10 are you sure that's her husband and not a ventriloquist dummy?

[quote]Kathy Bates would be perfect for the Senatrice.

This isn't a comedy. Post genuine choices.

Proceed.

Christopher Plummer could step into the role, when James Woods is found to be a pedo.

Max von Sydow could also play the alcoholic father, or play Orin Hatch, as Sydow is a real actor. About the same actual age as Plummer and Klobuchar‘s alcoholic father.

Molly Hagan as Julie Swetnick.

My first thought was Ana Gasteyer for Dr Ford. Also Laura Dern or Sarah whatserhername. Mrs Holland Taylor

Maya Rudolph as Kamala Harris and Will Arnett as Jeff Flake.

In R88's photo, Max von Sydow actually looks more like Grassley.

Ana Gasteyer looks a bit like Senator Amy Klobuchar.

Who can play the hot Indian/Pakistani guy in the hallway?

Laura Dern as Dr. Ford.

Pat Heaton as Renate Dolphin (human form)

Winter (the dolphin from Dolphin Tale) + CGI as Renate Dolphin (dolphin form)

Jessica Walter as Lucille Bluth as Diane Feinstein

Wendy Mclendon Covey as Mrs Goldberg as Dr Ford

The Wrigleyville Cumdump as Kit Winter, Brett Kavanaugh's gay college roomie (in flashback)

Peepers the Pigeon (pictured far left next to Brenda Fricker as Pigeon Lady in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York) as the dead pigeon pinned to Kit Winter's door (in flashback)

Make it a musical and cast Susan Boyle as Rachel Mitchell. Imagine the tunes. Don't Come Home A Drinkin with Pussy on your Breath.

Molly Shannon as Deborah Ramirez and Will Ferrell as Brett Kavanaugh.

Kate McKinnon as Ms. Graham

Joe Pesci of yesteryear as Debra Katz, Ford's allegedly female lawyer

Alison Sweeney as uber competitive beach friend/frenemy #4, the one who passive-aggressively planted all the bad advice, while pretending to be totally concerned.

Benny Hill (reanimated Peter Cushing style) as Liza Kavanaugh.

R105, and *surprise* passed Dr. Ford’s email to Feinstein “reviewed just for typos”, further on to the WaPo.

Jeff Dunham’s Walter as Chuck Grassley

Bill Pullman as Sen Sheldon Whitehouse

Meryl Streep as Kavanaugh's calendars.

Watching Dr. Ford yesterday, all I could see was Laura Dern

Ford = Leslie Mann

Ford was doing Mann's girlie upvoice the whole way. You know she doesn't teach with that voice.

[quote] Who can play the hot Indian/Pakistani guy in the hallway?

I didn’t see the hallway guy, but Dev Patel is always good for something.

Let's make this a family affair; cast her dad as Grumpy Grassley:

Psychic Kenny Kingston as Miss Lindsay Graham.

Just dye her hair blond.

Young Kavanaugh was a dead ringer for young Tammy Cruise; Tammy could play Kav (as someone pointed out, Hollywood casts better-looking) -- he may actually finally win...something.

Teenage Dr. Ford looks a lot like teenage Laura Dern - so, Laura Dern as Dr. Ford

Laura Dern would be an excellent Dr. Ford.

Bill Pullman looks NOTHING like Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, I'll stick with Richard Gere. Besides, Bill has light eyes, Sheldon has brown eyes. Some of these choices are ridiculous. Most of there performer looks nothing like the people involved.

British hottie Riz Ahmed as the Indian/Pakistani hallway guy. We definitely need some diversity in this mostly decrepit old white men Whitehouse chaos!

[quote]Laura Dern would be an excellent Dr. Ford.

I agree 100%, BEST choice yet for Ford! Though, she'd have to do that little girl voice.

Shelly Winters for Ms. Mitchell.

Shelley Winters is long dead. You guys are ruining the thread with all these unavailable performers.

[quote]You guys are ruining the thread with all these unavailable performers.

Dial down the control freak a notch, toots. People are having fun. You should try it sometimes.

Paul Scofield as Senator Asshole Grassley.

Gary Cole as Senator Jeff Flake.

[quote]Dial down the control freak a notch, toots. People are having fun. You should try it sometimes.

No, YOU dial it down, suggesting dead performers, that's just plain stupid. The other choices, such as comedic performers, are beyond ridiculous. Kate McKinnon, why, OF COURSE, she's great, but this is not an SNL sketch or a comedy.

One assumes this would be a drama, not some MADTV or SNL sketch.

I won't even get into the people posting performers who look absolutely nothing like the Washington cast of characters involved.

Basically, most here would be terrible as casting directors.

At the rate this is going, it's going to have to be a week long mini series to cover all the plot twists and turns. Every time you think the story is over, you find out it's not.

R127, actually, comedians can be fine dramatic actors.

Is R127... okay?

Is there someone we should call to check?

I’m worried about her.

I can't think of an actor ugly enough to play Bitch McConnell - maybe Steve Buscemi with age makeup and a prosthetic neck pouch

Jordana Brewster as Zika Gash.

Is there nothing for dear Glenn?

At this point, since no one is taking this seriously, someone might as well suggest the old man in the American Gothic painting to play Old Bitch Mitch McConnell.

R127 for Mark Judge, on his fifth daiquiri.

Alysa Milano as Alysa Milano

Don Knotts as Mitch McConnell.

To placate R127, and as they say at the William Morris Agency of Beverly Hills, “Get me Don Knotts. Oh, he’s dead? Then get me a young Don Knotts”.

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[quote][R127] for Mark Judge, on his fifth daiquiri.

Fuck off, troll. Don't you wish the IMDb forums were still up, so you could spew your venom there 24/7?!

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r127 as Kunty Kamala Harris

Ed Harris as Senator Patrick Leahy.

Ed Harris is going to have to be dubbed, preferably by someone who’s smoked two packs of Newports since the 80s.

Amy Hill as Mrs. Ho-Kim from [italic]Next Friday[/italic] as Mazie Hirono

[quote][R127] as Kunty Kamala Harris

Thank You, what an honor, that woman is FABULOUS!

Frances McDormand as Lisa Murkowski

OK, Jeff Flake just became a major player as Trump has agreed to the FBI investigation. OK, McConaughey as Flake as he looks like him.

Fred Ward as Joe Manchin

Oprah as Her Honorable Messiness Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee

In defiance of R127...

Bette Davis as Lindsey Graham.

She had the eyes, could do Southern, could definitely do flamboyant and melodramatic.

Bill Cosby as Clarence Thomas.

OK, people, what about Ford's male lawyer? Somebody rabbinical?

Did someone say Gere for Blumenthal? That's genius.

And nobody's been cast for the dyke sitting behind Feinstein.

I don't see how Jason Bateman can NOT play Kavanaugh ! I mean he only has to show up and play himself.

Zina Bash

Are we casting media?

Linda Hunt for Manu Raju

Timothy Busfield as Ford

Kathy Bates IS Senatrice Lindsay "Foggy Bottom" Graham!

Christine Baranski as Feinstein

R134, Mr. Gothic is a dead ringer for Grassley!

Our lead actress, whoever we select, MUST view this body language analysis in order to perform the role with utmost integrity!

Aunt Pittypat as Miss Graham

I’ll be Deleware, Miss Deleware to you! And since no one actually knows what I look like they’ll use Toronto for the tax breaks!

Cam, from Modern Family will play Ms Judge in full caftan & huge black sunglasses, at rundown Deleware beach house!

Oops, Delaware - I told you I was BOMBED!

[quote] R152: OK, people, what about Ford's male lawyer? Somebody rabbinical?

How about Stanley Tucci?

Melissa McCarthy plays the Senatrice Miz Lindsey Graham.

Tom Hanks as Brett Kavanaugh.

Kim Hunter as Dianne Feinstein.

Rosie O'Donnell as Rachel Mitchell.

Kirk Douglas is the only actor old enough to play Chuck Grassley.

Cory Booker is the only person fine enough to play Cory Booker.

The Rock as Cory Booker.

Tom Hanks would never take the role as Kavanaugh. When has he ever played a bad guy?

R166, wasn’t Forrest Gump a puppy rapist?

Is the role of 10-year-old daughter Liza, who holds a prayer meeting for Daddy’s victim, still available?

Because I can play older...

Katherine Hepburn could have played Diane Feinstein, I think. Could she play a Jewish role? Kate has the right gender, coloring, age (at death), and projection of moral authority.

Forrest Gump, a puppy rapist? While I don’t know what that is, it doesn’t sound right.

Sorry, I left one out.

Laura Linney as Dr. Ford.

Lea DeLaria reprises her role from many previous DL movies, once again in a gender-bender cameo as Trump-whisperer and all-around douche Sean Hannity.

I’ve been shilling for “Being There” with the late Peter Sellers.

I just saw a clip of Durbin questioning Kavanaugh, and it occurred to me that Peter Sellers would have been hilarious in that role. Chugging water, sweating buckets, crying, pleading, demanding to know what the senators drink, declaring his love for beer, basketball, and Yale.

“...but..but...I played basketball! Basketball! Don’t you like basketball, Senator?”

I finally figured out who Dr. Ford reminds me of.

This woman would have been perfect to play Ford back when she was Mrs. Landingham.

Too bad she's dead.

Olympia Dukakis as Sen. Susan Collins. You think? I’d prefer either of the Stapleton sisters, but they are both deceased. I’m sure they’d work cheap, though.

Obvious casting: Sarah Paulson as Ford, McBongo as Flake, Rex Reed makes his film debut as Lindsey Graham.

Catherine O'Hara as Ford. Paul Giamatti as Blackout Brett. Alyssa Milano, in a dual role, as both Blackout Brett's Wife and herself. And featuring: Angela Lansbury as The Senatrix.

r163, there is no "Delaware".

I love you bitches!

r143, Ed smokes rollies. He can light a match on his thumb nail, one-handed.

R177 so, what are you saying, I never existed?

If I may, R151...

Bill Cosby IS Clarence Thomas!

[quote]Rex Reed makes his film debut as Lindsey Graham.

Turn in your gay card! Now!

B.D. Wong as the stern-faced Asian sitting behind Maura Tierney/Mrs. Kavanaugh

Lindsay Lohan as Lindsey Graham.

Shelley Winters as Rachel Mitchell, Don Knotts as Lindsey Graham, Randolph Scott as Jeff Flake, Grace Kelly as Dr. Ford, Montgomery Clift as Kavanaugh, Lena Horne as Kamala Harris, WC Fields as Grassley.

Lady Gaga as one of the women screaming at Flake in the elevator.

A Kardashian as Dana Bash.

Jean Stapleton and Maureen Stapleton ARE NOT SISTERS!

JEEZUS!

I do not come to a gay board to read mistakes like that. I expect that sort of thing from straight people.

Bob Odenkirk as Kavanaugh

J. K. Simmons as Chuck Grassley

Ed Harris as Chris Coons

Martin Sheen as Sheldon Whitehouse

Mariel Hemingway as Lisa Murkowski

So one of Brett’s roommates was gay? Was he attractive? Did he strut about naked?

Colton Haynes for the gay roommate strutting naked, in flashbacks.

What about Tobin?

I can personally audition him in my dungeon between 3-5 on Saturday afternoon.

Non-botoxed Goop, in a career-redefining role, as Dr. Ford

Anna Kendrick for Kav's wife.

Paula Patton as Kamala Harris

Boris Kodjoe as Cory Booker

Michelle Williams as Dana Bash

Tom Hanks as Wolf Blitzer!

Tom Hanks as Wolf Blitzer?!?!

Dustin Hoffman as Wolf.

Julianne Moore as Ford Tom Cruise as Kavanaugh Thandie Newton as Kamala Harris Olympia Dukakis as Dianne Feinstein Melissa McCarthy as Mitchell

R197 wins!

Vin Diesel as Cory Booker. He will have to gay it up a notch.

R199 Vin's already plenty gay. No need to notch it up. It's the role he was born to play.

Great casting selections. My proposed title is:

The Devil’s Triangle

I think Kathleen Turner should read for the role of Inquisitor Mitchell.

Vin is too trashy to play Cory Booker. We need someone more refined like Boris Kodjoe!

Great thread, OP.

Amy Adams as the attractive, brunette, WaPo reporter who sat behind Dr. Ford, on the left.

No, Vin is perfect cause he'll chew the scenery, just like Cory.

Here’s the WaPo reporter. She’s the one that got the leaked letter to Dianne Feinstein.

Jack Nicholson as Orrin Hatch

Paul Gross as Blumenthal

Campbell Scott as Ben Sasse

Abe Vigotta as Sen. Charles Grassley. Yes, I know he’s dead, he’ll do just fine.

I’d like an animated version with John Mulaney doing all the voices.

Dyan Cannon as KellyAnn.

What ever happened to all the old men actors? On the 60s and 70s they were all over the place, Walter Brennan, But Ives, etc.

Cameo of Mr. Ed as commentator Ann Coulter.

Dylan Baker for Miss Lindz

America Ferrera for the Flake staffer in the elevator

Christian Bale as Jeff Flake. He’ll make his body look however it’s supposed to look.

Meryl as Senator Susan Collins.

I am available. I get mistaken for Chuck Grassley on a daily basis.

Ed Norton as Jeff Flake, possibly.

Robert Duvall as boring Southern Senator Kennedy.

Arnold Ziffel can play the Senatrice.

Kevin Spacey would make a good Sen. Mike Lee.

Spacey's swerving dangerously close to Mike Huckabee territory now. He could play Sarah!

Elisabeth Moss as the frumpy prosecutor

Tracey Ullman has to play someone in this.

Will Faye Dunaway be in the cast of the Kavanaugh hearings movie? I only watch Kavanaugh hearings movies if they have Faye Dunaway in them.

Michael Cera as McTurtle.

Michael Cera as McTurtle's makeup artist as an AA winner for makeup.

Margaret Cho as Senator Hirano

Ullman for Ted Cruz!

Nathan Fillion as Kavanaugh Charlie Sheen as Mark Judge Leonard DiCaprio as Lindsey Graham. He has the nose and the rest of his face. He just needs some aging makeup and an accent. Melissa McCarthy as the prosecutor.

Melissa McCarthy as Mitchell

Tracey Ullman could play Sen. Susan Collins, maybe?

Faye Dunaway could be the second Kavanaugh accuser; or the third, Julie Swetnick, since nobody really knows what they look like. Otherwise, she’s hard to cast.

Woody Harrelson as Michael Avenatti.

I think we’re way over-budget at this point.

Bill Maher as Brett Kavanough (or Jeff Flake?)

How about pixieish Dave Foley for Miss Graham?

Angela Rye as Sen Harris!

Bill Maher has a definite Jewish vibe, to me, so I don’t think he could play those characters.

Faye Dunaway would be great as Martha Kavanaugh.

(WTF kind of parents let their kid drink the way they let their shit of a son drink? They've both some guilt to bear for their son's assault on Dr. Ford.)

Jon Voight for papa Kavanaugh.

His parents are straight out of central casting! I almost feel bad for him, now!

R201 WINS best title!

There is no other choice!

William Hurt as Brett Kavanaugh

Sally Field as Susan Collins

Jerry O'Connell as Kavanaugh but I like Jason Bateman too

Jeff Daniels as Mitch McConnell

That's good, r243! I was going to suggest James Cromwell. Would have to shoot with clever camera angles so he's not so tall.

William Daniels as Grassley

Titles:

MisJudgement

Judge vs Judge

Blackout Judge

I Like Beer, Do You?

Judgement Day

Shawn Ashmore for the Grassley staffer

I Like Beer, Do You? is very good but The Devil's Triangle is perfection.

If Jon Bought and Faye Subway play Kavanaugh's parents then I get to play Brett!

Curse you, cursed auto-correct !

Oh, well...maybe Jon Bought and Faye Subway will catch on a la Lens Dunham...

Aisha Tyler as Kamala Harris.

Ben Affleck as Brett “I Like Beer” Kavanaugh.

Leslie Jordan as Graham!

Nicole Kidman as Julie Swetnick.

Agree with the others who said Laura Dern as Dr. Ford.

Owen Wilson as Flake

Jane Lynch IS Kavanaugh's mother.

Elisabeth Shue as CBF

We can tie this in with Roy Moore and Sarah Jessica Parker can play Sassy the horse.

Chris Crocker as Miss Lindsey

Title: Alter Boy from Hell

Make it a Law & Order: SVU movie and bring Chris Meloni back.

Title: One Angry Man

R152, how about Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ford's male lawyer?

The ghost of Rue McClanahan as Miss Lindz

I keep seeing a young Meg Ryan as Dr. Ford.

Oh yeah, Goldblum. We'd have to increase his role for more screen time. Subplot?? He and Dr. Ford are having a serious flirtation, will it turn into an affair? Steamy scene as they walk on the Mall (Capitol at twilight shown in background) and he tells her she's gotta testify for the sake of the country. Makeout scene on a bench with erect Washington Monument pointing heavenward.

Young Meg could do the flashback scenes.

Twitter cast Mandy Patinkin

Barbra Streisand as Dr. Ford's therapist

Why is everyone referring to Ms. Ford as "Doctor Ford" when just a few weeks ago you were all scorning that woman who freaked out because an airline attendant dared to call her Miss instead of Doctor? She had a PhD in something or other--can't recall. But I do recall there were several long screeds posted here by DL college professors saying that those titles are meaningless (and pretentious) outside of academia.

Rumer Willis as young Chrissy Blasey

Why is everyone referring to Ms. Ford as "Doctor Ford" when just a few weeks ago you were all scorning that woman who freaked out because an airline attendant dared to call her Miss instead of Doctor? She had a PhD in something or other--can't recall. But I do recall there were several long screeds posted here by DL college professors saying that those titles are meaningless (and pretentious) outside of academia.

Compare ^

r272 is legally blind

R271 I can’t believe you split my comparison and it was to bring up a point that has nothing to do with the thread subject. I even had my second post ready to roll immediately after my first but as I was clicking post I saw the orange tab announcing your banal post .

I’ll get over it 😤😁😃

I am young Dr. Ford!

r233 Maher resembles no one in this story nor is his manner comparable to any of these people. You do not understand how to play this game.

My friend thought Dr Ford was 70. Really, why does she look so old? Diving?

[quote]Why is everyone referring to Ms. Ford as "Doctor Ford" when just a few weeks ago you were all scorning that woman who freaked out because an airline attendant dared to call her Miss instead of Doctor?

Because she’s an important witness in a hearing that is being televised nationally, and “Doctor” is her correct title rather than “Ms.”

She’s not a random airline passenger upset that a flight attendant who knows nothing about her didn’t address her to her satisfaction.

Do you also think Kavanaugh shouldn’t have been addressed as “Judge Kavanaugh” and Kamala Harris as “Senator Harris” during these proceedings??

I referred to her as Dr. Ford because it is easier than Christine Blasey Ford, you goddamn Republican.

r277 she doesn't. Maybe your friend is very young? Or has never seen a middle aged blonde woman who lives in SoCal and surfs as a hobby? Maybe the hipster glasses threw your friend off because s/he lives in some backwater where this stupid trend from the last 4 years has not yet gotten? Maybe you don't have any friends.

The ghost woman from The Ring would be terrific as Girl in Elevator #1...

Well the woman who said it is 64 and I am not trying to be mean. She said it because it was true and if Ford was a lawn worker I could understand but she seems more like a woman of priveledge. Maybe all that studying did her in?

Must-have title cards:

"Having the Vapors" before Miss Lindz's outburst.

Fred Ward is not big enough to play Machine.

She looks like an average fair skinned white woman in her 50's. All those fun in the sun "beach weeks" come at a price.

I think Christine Wigg could play Mrs. Kavanaugh.

R283, the whole thing would make a great silent movie, complete with Kavanaugh's Norma Desmond-ish emoting!

Dr. Ford is one of these women who is confident about herself as she ages, and - one assumes- has a loving husband/family and students who adore her. Why would she need to spackle herself and inject herself with toxins?

[quote]"Having the Vapors" before Miss Lindz's outburst.

Slightly off topic... but good video of Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon last night making fun of Senatrice Lindsey having “the vapors”.

What about Dennis Quad as Merck Flake?

r289, you're in the "let's cast the Kavanaugh hearings movie' thread; not a thread that's a discussion of the hearings nor of commentary about the hearings.

Dr. Ford lives in Northern California. Not Southern California. There's not too much sun there. In fact, there is often not enough.

She looks like any 50-ish female academic who would never consider spending three hours in a beauty salon before coming to testify to Congress. The glasses did not help to up her beauty quotient for the day.

She came across as an intelligent, educated, and extremely serious person. The only problem is that we so few of them on television, only media whores. The sight of an authentic person on the TeeVee was jarring. But the nation adjusted. Quickly.

This thread is being tanked by half-wits and their fantasies about "adoring husbands"...YUCK

Thomas Gibson to play the lead FBI investigator - tortured by his own past, he is determined to expose Judge Kavanaugh for who he truly is.

R291... kill yourself.

Megan Markle as Kamala Harris.

Rosie as Lynne Brookes, Kavanaugh's Yale classmate who partied hard with him

Dylan Sprouse as hard-hitting investigative journalist Ronan Farrow.

Who for the mandatory Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill flashback?

Kenan Thompson as Clarence Thomas. Leslie Jones as Anita Hill.

Gwyneth Paltrow returns in her fat suit from "Shallow Hal" to play Lynne Brooks.

And of course there's the Trump crime family. Alec Baldwin seems too cliched for Trump at this point. How about Meryl Streep?

Gwyneth in her fat suit could change wigs and play both Trump and Lynne Brooks.

Title: 10 Angry Men, 10 Incredulous Others, and 1 We’re Not So Sure About

Wow, just look at the expression on Jeff Flake’s face in that picture in R281. I see him agonizing over the right thing to do, as he understands it, not a Fascist hack, like Cruz and some others. Too bad he’s leaving and will be replaced with, well, a Fascist hack.

Karen Allen for Deborah Ramirez

I like Alfrie Woodard as Anita Hill, mostly because I like Alfrie. She was over-exposed in the 1990s but I miss her now.

Jacob Tremblay as Barron

This movie is going to be so lit.

[quote]How about Meryl Streep?

I can play any role, dear.

If anyone has seen Richard Simmons having one of his sloshy meltdowns, then you know there is absolutely no one else who can play Ms. Scarlett Graham!

I love this thread

If Nathan Lane sends in the “Birdcage” in as his audition tape, then I think we’re in for a pearl clutching “comeback”!

Alicia Minshew as Julie Swetnick.

Suddenly, the door swooshes open to a hushed courtroom and ice cold Rooney Mara vogues in doing runway, as Renate Schroeder Dolphin, DL Superstar!

Think Marlene Dietrich in “Witness for the Prosecution”, but with Ru Paul directing!

[quote]Maher resembles no one in this story nor is his manner comparable to any of these people. You do not understand how to play this game.

I agree, most of the choices look nothing like the people they would be portraying. Isn't the idea of casting a movie or TV series about real people to, at the very least, hire performers who share some resemblance to the people they are going to portray?

Too many here are going for laughs, casting women as men and men as women and casting children as adults.

Some choices have been excellent, such as Laura Dern, Max von Sydow and Melissa McCarthy. The different choices for Sentrice Lindsey Graham have been great, especially Steve Buscemi, Rex Reed and Sean Hayes. Shaun Cassidy would be great too, but he'd need blue contacts. While these men look nothing alike, they share similar features with Lindsey.

Definitely Mark Holton as Kavanaugh, that is definitely the best choice for that POS Kavanaugh! The general resemblance and facial expressions are eerie.

^^All great choices R316. But I'm going to lobby hard for Mare Winningham for Ford

Wait a second....why couldn’t Miz Lindsey play herself?!?!?!? We know she posseses the acting chops!

How about Haley Joel Osment, as a younger Kavanaugh?

Beer bloat and all.

This thread is cheering me up.

r319 Osment has too much natural vulnerability.

“You lookin for a fair process? You came to the wrong town, at the wrong time, mah friend!” - LG, emoting

Young Tom Cruise would have been perfect for young Kavanaugh.

Max von Sydow has a good accent for an old midwestern guy, probably an immigrant. Amy’s Dad is probably Jewish but why split hairs?

r323, why? They don't look anything alike and Cruise has never been able to pull off being upper class. I'll give you that they both seem dumb, but Cruise at least seems aware and ashamed that he's dumb while Blackout Brett thinks he should be given a parade and a lifetime appointment to the supreme court for having *written his very own opening statement*.

Sela Ward as Senator Amy Klobuchar

Rosie Perez as Flake's confronter; the actress needs to have a voice that would cut straight through to your soul.

I'm going to selfishly cast myself and my friends in the obligatory scene where the crowd in a bar is all watching the hearings on TV in rapt attention.

Wait, by how many years is Sela Ward lying about her age? Because she's supposedly only two years older than Klobuchar but reads as 15 years older. Also, Ward is rightwingscum and is incapable of losing her drawl.

Good one R327.

At least set design will be easier. They can just borrow from The Handmaid's Tale

Bryan Cranston as Senator Durbin

David Paymer as Lyin' Ted

Matthew Perry for Blackout Brett

The funniest posts belong to the thread monitors.

“You’re not taking this seriously at all!”

Diane Keaton as Diane Feinstein

Jessica Lange was born to play Brett's mother.

Hear, hear R335!

That's Kavanaugh's mother R 337? Damn, she's the spitting image of Cloris Leachman.

She reminds me of Cheri Oteri as Collette Reardon.

Cardi B as Hispanic woman who confronts Flake in elevator.

Blythe Danner as Kavanaugh's mother. She has the same wild hair and haughty manner.

Damn, R333, that’s great!

Treat Williams as Sen. Whitehouse

(the one who asking him about Devil's Triangle and who held up his calendar the next day and started circling the people's names on the July 1 entry that Dr. Ford said were at the party)

Margo Martindale as Susan Collins!

Title: The Nominee

Vince Vaughn as Brett Kavanaugh.

Blythe Danner has such a punchable face.

Matt Damon as Kavanaugh....right now on SNL.

Yeah, Damon nailed it. He's in.

He was too attractive and not whiny enough. He needs that irritating, entitled voice. They should also have had him played by a woman or fatter man so that the comparison was less flattering. Perhaps that giant blob from Weird Science would have been appropriate.

The second Kavanaugh hearing is up there with the Helsinki summit for “unbelievably”. You’d think someone in the military would have addressed this already.

Matt Damon is way to good looking to play BK. BK has horrible skin and a mottled complexion due to long term alcohol use. Also BK's lack of lips makes him look all the more horrifying.

Brett Kavanaugh is disgusting. I really feel terrible for any woman who was raped by that ugly, gross, drunken piece of shit.

My gut instinct was Ben Affleck as Kavanaugh, Elizabeth McGovern (Cora style) as Ashley Kavanaugh.

After SNL the other night, Matt Damon is a perfect choice for Kavenaugh.

Laura Linney. The only choice.

Besides not remotely looking like or in any way evoking Susan Collins, Olympia Dukakis is almost 90. As are most of you, apparently.

Olympia as Feinstein, R358, not Collins.

Susan Collins has that shaky head thing going on. If only Katherine Hepburn were still alive, put a dark wig on her, she'd be perfect.

How old is Susan Collins, she looks and sounds about 80!

I just looked up her age, I CANNOT believe she's only 65. I thought she was well into her 70s. Is she ill? She sure looks and sounds like it. She's probably one of those people who looked 40 when she was 25!

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OMG! WTF happened to Lara Flynn Boyle?! That's not all from bad plastic surgery. Was she's an addict? She has the swollen hands of a former heroin addict.

r359 or as most of us know you, Helen Keller: Feinstein and Dukakis look absolutely *nothing* alike. Have you ever taken a test for prosopagnosia?

Put a black wig on Dukakis, R359, and you've got Feinstein.

Tracy Ullman plays a character who looks just like Kathy Mitchell

[quote]OMG! WTF happened to Lara Flynn Boyle?!

R362, see this thread for more on Boyle:

Tom Wilkinson as Sen. Leahy

THX, R366.

I had no idea LFB was an alcoholic. How sad for her. I read the thread, many blamed Jack Nicholson. Yet the main problem with anyone turning to alcohol or drugs after a break-up or other life crisis where another person is involved, you cannot allow another person to take away YOUR power. You should never ever GIVE them your power.

On the other hand, some people simply blame others for addictions they already had.

The Nairobi Trio as Grassley, Hatch and the other old bastard.