A pretty good looking mock-up of George W. Bush (Josh Brolin) and wife Laura Bush (Elizabeth Banks) on the cover of the latest Entertainment Weekly magazine which sports the two stars in full make-up and wardrobe in Oliver Stone’s upcoming film “W”

When I first heard that Josh Brolin was going to play Bush, I was excited. Because I thought that there was a lot of resemblance. And who had a better 2007 than Brolin?

I think Elizabeth Banks makes a slightly sexier Laura Bush than the real-thing. But this is the movies people and sexier is better I tell ya.

Ellen Burstyn plays Barbara Bush and James Cromwell (who I saw at Hugo’s in West Hollywood last week) is playing George H. W. Bush and funnyman Rob Corddry locked in another supporting role as Press Secretary Ari Fleischer (who is also bald, but not as funny as Corddry incidentally.)

“W.” began lensing in April in Shreveport, Louisiana (borders Marshall, Texas where my Dad produced a film in the 1980’s for HBO) and the studio is hoping to get this film ready in time for an end of November 2008 release (they’ll have to hurry…. but it not, they can release it in time for the inaguaration of Barack Obama in January, 2009.)

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