not just any texan, honey. a larger than life texan...with a penchant for women and booze and cocaine and big guns!

i'm reading the book now...i highly recommend it.

and whats more interesting about the movie than tommy boy playing charlie boy is that aaron sorkin is writing the script! for you unedumuhcated folks, he wrote the American President and created the West Wing. this movie could be the real deal.

I like big guns. (Casey, aren't you in law school? When do you have time to read?)

give me a soft subtle mix
and if ain't broke then don't try to fix it
and think of the summers of the past
adjust the base and let the alpine blast
pop in my CD and let me run a rhyme
and put your car on cruise and lay back cause this is summertime

Clever boy. (Is that Will Smith??) Not nice, though, for those of us who remember summer vacations only vaguely. And I don't think its the tequila.

Whoa, I never thought I'd see Charlie portrayed on the big screen. Wonder if the subtitle is going to be: You can teach 'em to type but you can't teach 'em to grow tits?

I don't have any trouble seeing Hanks doing "Texan," but Charlie Wilson? Isn't Hanks a tad slight for that role? I guess we'll see. He is a great actor.

Charlie used to be somewhat slighter himself, back when he gave me a prize at the elementary school Christmas program and his mother, Miss Wilmuth, was my fifth grade teacher.

But that was a long time ago, so maybe Tom ought to call De Niro for some handy tips on bulking up fast.

After drowning my sorrows in tequila that the role will be played by Hanks, it came to me who'd be the perfect actor...if he were ten years older (which, in my opinion, could be done easily w/ makeup)...Vince Vaughn. With Aaron Sorkin writing, Vince woulda made his best movie since Swingers (sorry, but Clay Pigeons and The Locusts sucked). Man if only Tom Hanks could like die or something.

You're so money, and you don't even know it!

I'd choose Joe Don Baker.

I wonder if they'll bring up the fact that it was Charlie Wilson who armed the Afghanistan mujahadin, what later became al-Qaeda, with guns and stinger missiles.

That seems like an important fact.