Paint Drying, Grass Growing And Valerie Plame

Good Lord. Hollywood is planning a blockbuster sequel to Ishtar. The Warner Brothers studio is "developing" a movie based on the life of Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson. I realize "Plamegate" is endlessly fascinating to the left wing, but this is seriously silly.

Warner Bros. is developing a feature on the lives of Valerie Plame and Ambassador Joseph Wilson, the married couple drawn into a D.C. firestorm.

Plame's status as a CIA agent was revealed by White House officials allegedly out to discredit her husband after he wrote a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece saying that the Bush administration had manipulated intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq.

The film is a co-production between Weed Road's Akiva Goldsman and Jerry and Janet Zucker of Zucker Productions.

Jez and John Butterworth are writing the screenplay.

WB has secured the life rights of Plame and Wilson. Studio also will use Plame's memoir, "Fair Game," if the CIA permits her to publish it. Plame made a reported publishing deal in the $2.5 million range last year, and Simon & Schuster is expected to publish late this year. While it would be ironic for Plame's story to be illegally leaked by the White House, only to have another government branch deny her the right to tell it herself, the CIA has the latitude to silence Plame.

Ah, the old "silencing" routine. Which Joe Wilson is making how much money off of on the lecture circuit? Although that may have dropped off a bit lately. Look, I thought the whole Clinton Whitewater investigation was a waste of time and money, but that is a blockbuster compared to the idiocy that is surrounding the Plame matter. This movie won't be worth a darn thing - except as a really great sleep aid.