CASTING CALLS FOR MY NEW MOVIE: RUTH KING

Posted By on March 11th, 2010

March 11, 2010
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Ruth King

Guess what, Virginia! I’m so excited with the screenplay I just wrote and I hope they will get Sandra Bullock to play the heroine. Let me tell you about it.

It’s a story about a feisty woman who wants to rear a challenged boy. Her friends tell her to give it up, but her hunky husband stands with her and behind her in taking the boy and loving him and rearing him and proudly showing him off on Christmas cards, at school dances and all public and family events. Her other kids bond with and love the brother with special needs.

She’s a looker too with a great shape and great legs and long hair and glasses. She has a flip, smart aleck intelligence and true grit punctuated with down home expressions and dropped g’s in her speech. She’s a Republican who knows how to use a handgun and how to stand up to bullies and how to advocate for her special needs child.

She has a lovely home and a “career.” She cooks and cusses and makes waves and attends all sports events to see her kids. I don’t mean soft sports…I mean contact sports, like hockey and football.

No Virginia! Have a little patience…it is not The Blind Side and I am not plagiarizing. Just listen, okay?

My heroine bucks all multi-culti politically correct cant. She has an energy policy that she defends with numbers and facts without reading the New York Times. Women deride her in spite of the fact that she embodies their longings for achievement and power combined with children and family. Of course she has had family tribulations, but who hasn’t? Well, maybe the yentas of The View all have Norman Rockwell picture perfect families and enduring marriages…or maybe they don’t. She does, and it must kill them.

Do you think Phyllis Diller would play Joy Behar? And, Whoopi Goldberg who now peddles…er, uh…how to put it delicately….incontinence aids in TV ads for Poise pads…could play herself.

In fact, my heroine did it all on her own. She became a mayor, then a governor of the largest state in America and ultimately the second woman in our history to run for the office of Vice President with the oh-so-boring John McCain.

The first woman to do so, Geraldine Ferraro made a lame try for the Senate after her ticket with the oh-so-boring Fritz Mondale lost big to Ronald Reagan, but then retired from politics and has occasional appearances on television. I am going to include a bit part for her. She is so charming and lovely and is another woman who endured slings and arrows, albeit from the other political side.

My heroine, by contrast, just got started after she lost. She wrote a memoir which has sold more copies than the combined Bill and Hillary tomes. More people go to hear her than attend Obama rallies. She is now a commentator on a news show and has even tried a limp gig at comedy. While the ladies in writhing in the media are in overdrive to slander and defame her, she ignores them and soldiers on with her conservative message and the crowds and fan clubs grow as her detractors lose readers and watchers by the hour.

Now let me tell you, Virginia, how my screen play ends. My heroine is first in line to become the next Republican presidential nominee. Because she is who she is, we pan the camera over her face and her husband’s as they come to the difficult, but principled, decision.

Camera follows her into the car as she and husband enter, alights briefly on their clasped hands, pans over the hordes of media waiting for the “big announcement,” follows her out of the car waving away the cameras saying” you will hear it all from me today, but I want to say it first to my loyal supporters because this will be the election that could change the course of our nation.”

The crowds part, she takes the microphone, salutes the tea parties and the other contenders, waves at the crowd and states. ”I won’t keep you waiting. This is a make or break election to reclaim America. We can’t afford distractions. Our candidate must win and therefore I am withdrawing my name from consideration. This decision came after much thinking and I know it is best for America. Freed from the burdens of a campaign and armed with my own experience I will work for the party, for our candidate, and we have really good people to choose from. I’m not fading away. I have renewed vigor and commitment. With your help we will win and take back our nation. God bless you all and god Bless America.”

The crowds explode with applause and the heroine steps down to greet and mix as the credits roll. The after-speech dissections follow as Katie, and Campbell, and TeleKens and TeleBarbies are left with nothing to say.

The movie ends with a closeup of Nancy Pelosi sputtering, “That woman!”

So what do you think Virginia? I don’t want to name it The Sarah Palin Story. Another possibility is In the Shadow of the North Face but I think That Woman sums it up.

And wouldn’t Sandra Bullock be perfect?

FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Ruth S. King is a freelance writer who writes a monthly column in OUTPOST, the publication of Americans for a Safe Israel.

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