Being now up to our loins in integrity, fair-mindedness, high standards and all that class-A stuff brings mankind to HBO’s coming five-part series. It’s based on “Integrity,” the book, which is based on Watergate, which is based on R. Nixon’s finale. Woody Harrelson plays E. Howard Hunt, Justin Theroux plays G. Gordon Liddy, Domhnall Gleeson is John Dean. Woody and Justin are co-producers. Steeped in laundering White House wash are its creators Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck, who also wrote the TV hit “Veep.” The series is titled “The White House Plumbers.”
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After those lousy Oscars, stars now look to direct or produce. Be in back of — instead of in front of — the camera. Elizabeth Banks of “The Hunger Games” is developing Fox’s animated adult comedy series “Bedrock.” It’s an updated modernized “Flintstones.” What that means, who knows. She’ll voice the part of a grown-up Pebbles. Maybe now her character wears loincloths from Saint Laurent.
Wait. More screening news. “Druk,” the Danish name of an Oscar foreign film winner, means binge-drinking. It won prizes from Denmark, Holland and Sweden. Those three countries also participated in its making. Now “Another Round” is set for an American remake. Leonardo DiCaprio producing and starring. Production companies fronted by Banks and Jake Gyllenhaal lost out in the auction, but maybe they’ll all get “Druk” together.
It’s Bat time!
Attention homebound superheroes: Kross Studio has ready a “1989 Batmobile desk clock.” The thing looks like a miniature Batmobile. Don’t everyone go bats over it and look to replace your Mickey Mouse alarm clock because there’s just 100 pieces worldwide. I mean, lest a wham! bam! villain get in the way.
This who-knowswhat-it-is has 512 components, a 30-day power reserve, is black aluminum and the time gets shown horizontally by whatever’s two cylinders.
Only big boy types can afford the $29,500 price tag, so George Clooney, Michael Keaton, Christian Bale, Ben Affleck, Val Kilmer and Robert Pattinson — it’s your thing.
Anybody looking for a cape — that’s extra.
Drums beating from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue inform us that our blood-and-guts pow! zowie! president hasn’t yet nabbed it. His aide could get one at Cellini.
Now hear this
Today, Madam Adams is into heavy-duty big-time thinking.
A NY judge to a young judge donning his first robe. “Don’t think you’re fair. We’re all prisoners of little biases and prejudices. Your robe doesn’t vest you with god-like wisdom. It’s tempting to base your ideas off of right and wrong and be unfair to everyone different.
“You’re least likely to be held to account for an abuse of power. Remember, people have the right to enact unwise and even foolish laws — subject to the limits of constitutional authority and the rights of a free people.“Your job is determining which acts are unconstitutional or against established law — not to save people from themselves. Excessive partisanship leads to tyranny of the majority with legislative decisions predicated on populist notions and response to crowds shouting slogans.
“Don’t enter an order of significance if you’re angry. It will be too harsh. Don’t be moved by pity or lose sight of the case’s seriousness. Don’t be afraid to request more information. ‘Due process’ means nothing if the judge isn’t listening or a jury misunderstands instructions.
“You will spend your life immersed in the wisdom and insanity of the human race. This greatest job on Earth depends on how you do it.”