Your Happiness Is Being Bought. Steal It!

[Rakhmetov]

Two of the most underrated revolutionaries of all time were Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin who used humor and street theater to ridicule capitalists and warmongers. Too bad Rubin later became a yuppie capitalist himself.

The Trial of the Chicago 7, which was supposed to be Steven Spielberg’s next film, has been delayed. The movie, which explores the infamous trial of the protesters from the 1968 Democratic convention, had tentatively been scheduled to begin production in April. According to Spielberg’s longtime spokesman, Marvin Levy, Chicago still may be Spielberg’s next endeavor — it’s the furthest along of all his projects — but the script, written by Aaron Sorkin, needs work, and the 100-day writers’ strike delayed the project so long that it couldn’t be ready for an April start date. One source tells EW.com that research staff working on the film has been let go. Levy wouldn’t comment. Sacha Baron Cohen is in talks to play counter culture icon Abbie Hoffman, but no deal has been confirmed. Dreamworks had initially hoped to announce some casting decisions this week, but have no plans to do so now, Levy said.

http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi2794980889/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovM1biW42jU

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steal_This_Book

http://tenant.net/Community/steal/steal.html

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5858962939917432628#

http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/U1608809A.html

http://www.google.com/images?expIds=17259,17311,24813,25753,25854,25900, 26209,26218,26307,26339&sugexp=ldymls&xhr=t&q=abbie%20hoffman&cp=4&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1280&bih=553

[RED DAVE]

Steal This Movie, starring Vincent D'Onofrio and Janean Garafalo was okay, but it definitely focused on the downside. Frankly, I can't see this movie really hitting on the upside consistently. I look for a sneaky reconciliation behind the back.

Actually, Rubin became a major sell-out as did Rennie Davis. Dave Dellinger kept the faith till he died. Tom Hayden, in my opinion, always was a sell-out: sort of caught in a left eddy current for a few years. (Like John Kerry.) Lee Weiner became some kind of a nonentity as did John Froines. Seale is still knockin' around.

RED DAVE

[x359594]

We've already had the docu-drama The Chicago 10 from a few years ago that was a pretty decent re-telling.

I dread the prospect of Spileberg directing a movie about the Chicago 7 (or 8 if you count Bobby Seale.)

Years ago Jean-Luc Godard was going to make a movie about the trial with the defendants and their lawyers playing themselves and Judge Hoffman to be have been played by Groucho Marx.