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August 20, 2007
Holy Beltway, Batman! ~ Sen. Leahy Lands Role in Batman Movie
Sen. Leahy Lands Role in Batman Movie
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP)
Sen. Patrick Leahy has a part in the next Batman movie.
"I don't wear tights," the Vermont Democrat said.
Leahy's scene was filmed this summer for "The Dark Knight" and involves Batman, played by Christian Bale, The Joker, played by Heath Ledger, and Alfred Pennyworth, played by Michael Caine.
The longtime Batman fan would reveal little about his role other than he is called the "distinguished gentleman."
"It's a pretty tense scene," said Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. "It's going to be a very interesting one."
He's done voice-overs on Batman cartoons, written the preface for a Batman book and had small roles in the last two Batman features.
He said he will donate his earnings from the film to the Kellogg-Hubbard children's library in Montpelier, where the senator got his first library card.
"The Dark Knight" is scheduled to be released next summer.
Wild Thing's comment........
Hmmmmm ( just thinking here) I wonder if he will leak the ending?? And then it will be only a matter of hours before the NY Times publishes Bat Man’s secret identity.
I hope Rush talks about this today, he would have a lot of fun with it. Hahahaha
Posted by Wild Thing at August 20, 2007 12:47 AM
Comments
Didn't he star in the 60's cartoon episodes of Bat Fink? Or Bullwinkle's Boris Badenov?
- Demliblooney Tunes 2007
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at August 20, 2007 03:40 AM
I'm sure Rush will have fun with it.
Leahy--distinquished? Not quite the word
I had in mind, but oh well, it's just a movie.
Posted by: Lynn at August 20, 2007 06:06 AM
Maybe his role in Batman will be more believable than his phony playacting at being a "distinguished" statesman in the Senate.
Posted by: TomR at August 20, 2007 06:30 AM
Interesting, no. Appropriate, of course. Now all we have to figure out is what character is Leaky going to play ?
Choices are 'Harley Quinn' the Jokers sidekick, as is side kick to Harry 'the body' Reid. Or maybe 'Two-face' another villian, which would be more fitting to his real life character, that of kissing up the Moveon.Org and then stabbing the troops in the back. Or maybe 'Mr. Freeze, the guy who wets his pants all the time, hence the name Senator Depends.
Aren't there any good guys to play a part in this movie.
What really ticked me off about the Movie 'Gettysburg', I am a huge Civil War buff, is these Hollywierdos, chose Martin Sheen to play the part of Robert E. Lee, which was an abomination and a blaspheme, all by itself and was enough to make me want to secede from the Union. The whole battle was misrepresented and virtually wrong.
But that is todays hollywood. Mis-represents the true facts of American History so as to make the real heroes on either side look bad.
But to choose Leahy as some non-descript character they could have done just as well to use Charles Manson.
Posted by: Mark at August 20, 2007 08:40 AM
Hmmmm!!! I'll pass. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
Posted by: Jack at August 20, 2007 12:42 PM
Leahy can play himself. A duplicitious sleezebag.
Posted by: Rhod at August 20, 2007 06:16 PM
Say how about the Joker!!!
Posted by: Tincan Sailor at August 20, 2007 10:57 PM
Darth, LOL good one, he could have.
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 20, 2007 11:22 PM
Lynn, I agree, just a movie. My husband said maybe the Penguin.
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 20, 2007 11:24 PM
Tom maybe so, funny how that word distinguished just does not fit Leahy at all, not even a little.
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 20, 2007 11:26 PM
Mark, Amen, that was an awful film.
This one using a politican is for what the heck reason anyway.
If Hollywood does a film on something historical if they could just once do it really true and not with their slant on it.
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 20, 2007 11:30 PM
Jack, good one your right.
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 20, 2007 11:32 PM
Rhod excellent! That is what he should be doing he sure is that 100%. YUK!
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 20, 2007 11:34 PM
Tincan Sailor, that reminds me of how Jack Nicholson played the Joker. He did a great job with it.
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 20, 2007 11:35 PM
Now that's giving the Penguin a bad name!
Posted by: Lynn at August 21, 2007 06:17 AM
