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Date Posted: 03:00:21 04/10/08 Thu
Author: Cabb N. Hill
Subject: Re: Scaife, The Movie
In reply to: Navin Johnson 's message, "Scaife, The Movie" on 18:03:03 04/09/08 Wed

See if you can interest Oliver Stone. He might have some time when he's done with the GW Bush movie he's about to shoot.

And you'd need some good 1970s scenes of true things that went down at the Greensburg Trib, when he hired his kids' nanny, a disgraced former reporter, as Editorial Editor, only to have her drag her two noisy dogs to work every day to the point he had to buy a house bordering the Trib property to place her.

You'd also need to include the time him starting the Pittsburgher Magazine to compete with Pittsburgh Magazine because he was pissed at QED and throwing a fit when Scripps decided to sell the Press to the PG in 1992.

>I was reading through the comments on this forum and
>took a look at a few links on them which directed me
>to several sites on the web, which led me to look a
>whole lot more material on this fine fellow and his
>wacky and insane ideas, antics and projects. And it
>got me to thinking, if a movie were made about Dick
>Scaife the perfect actor to play his part would be
>Leslie Neilson. As I daydreamed while looking through
>Scaife related material on the web, I realized that
>this comedy (would have to be a comedy) has already
>been written. You couldn't make up anything funnier
>than Scaife's recorded factual history. So I was going
>to write a little script and submit it to this forum
>for fun. But I thought it might be better if the
>contributors to this forum write their ideas for the
>script.
>My first idea would be to start the script with a
>scene from Scaife's childhood and I was thinking of
>Steve Martin as Navin on his family's front porch with
>everyone singing,
>"Gonna jump down turn around pick a bail of cotton,
>Gonna jump down turn around pick a bail of hay..."
>I'm sure Scaife's childhood had something just a funny
>and at the same time, sad.
>I loved when Navin was leaving Bernadette Peters and
>said he was "taking nothing, well maybe this old TV,
>but nothing else, except maybe this chair but nothing
>else....." Sort of reminded me of his kidnapping of
>Beauregard -his wife Ritchie's dog.
>Anyone game?

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  • Re: Scaife, The Movie -- Bob Todd, 04:53:26 04/11/08 Fri
  • Re: Scaife, The Movie -- Al Fresco, 23:04:25 04/11/08 Fri

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