Well, Oliver Stone finally pulled the trigger and hired someone to play former Senator, former Secretary of Defense, current Vice-President, and eternal devourer of worlds Richard "Dick" "Go Fuck Yourself" Cheney -- and we're thinking that like Mr. Cheney when he shot that guy in the face, Stone got his target pretty durn good. Oscar-winning former cokehead Richard Dreyfuss will be bringing the veep to cinematic life in W, Stone's possibly Capra-esque biopic of the least popular American president ever.
Dreyfuss fans -- which we certainly count ourselves, considering how many mashed potato mountains we've built in our day -- will observe that this will not be the first time the noted and active lefty will be playing a conservative to presumably-critical effect. He played a right-wing Senator in The American President and lifelong Republican operative Alexander Haig in The Day Reagan Was Shot; we're also pretty sure that that guy from Down and Out in Beverly Hills wasn't really much of a Mondale supporter, either. Dreyfuss-haters, however, might note that his performances in those flicks-- and most of his performances really -- could somewhat charitably be described as "sort of hammy"; we'd remind them simply that, dude, it's an Oliver Stone movie. If you're looking for subtlety, Netflix is full of Bresson movies.
* Yeah, we know Roy Scheider said that in Jaws. Sue us; it works.
