Thursday, December 15, 2011
West Memphis Three Reese Witherspoon to star in 'Devil's Knot'
Posted by Max Brantley on Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 9:20 PM
- Variety
- REESE WITHERSPOON
Mara Leveritt sends news. Variety reports that Reese Witherspoon will star in the film version of Leveritt's book "Devil's Knot" about the West Memphis Three case. She'll play Pam Hobbs, mother of one of the three children slain in West Memphis in 1992.
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Honk Honk - why it's Wobbles the Goose!
Congratuatlons to Mara Leveritt for getting an Academy Award-winning actress signed for the film based on her book. With all the Arkansas-connected films Reese Witherspoon is doing, she really, really likes us.
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Sadly, Christopher Hitchens has passed away.
sigh.
But Rush Limbaugh is still alive.
Bye, Christopher. And thanks. Agree or disagree, well done.
Hitchens called Bill Clinton "a cynical, self-seeking ambitious thug."
His take on Mother Teresa? A fraudulent fanatic.
Regretfully, he didn't live long enough to share his Yuletide (or Yuletied) thoughts on the wadded panties in Paragould.
Hitchens was brilliant and will be missed. I agreed with the vast majority of his take on things and he stimulated thought and contemplation. After I heard news of his death last night, I went on YouTube to watch a dozen of his videos, eviscerated the likes of Ralph reed, hannity and the like.
He was a firebrand to closed-minded sheep that need daddy to keeP them in line.
We need a $100M venue so folks can do all the stupid things people do at the Fair- waste money, scream on rides, eat junk, drink beer, vomit- and display well behaved animals? The animals do not care care, and people can act stupid right there on Roosevelt Road.
Our relative Joe Speaks from Sheridan fought in the Battle of the Bulge 67 years ago http://haltingarkansasliberalswithtruth.co…
No Arkansas writer one can think of deserves Hollywood money more than Mara.
Wonderful as Charles Portis is, fiction never saved anybody from wrongful incarceration and execution.
Of course, when you work out the time and effort Leveritt spent laboriously, tirelessly, relentlessly, dedicatedly researching then writing "Devil's Knot," your Wal Mart greeter makes a better hourly wage.
One trusts Ms. Leveritt knows how MANY are eternally grateful to her and appreciative of her gifts, her heart, her mind.
P.S. Tolstoy it may not be right up there with, but "fiddlefart" is my vocabulary-builder word for the week.
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