Let's recast some fave movies - I'll start with Wizard of Oz....

[grannylib]

Dorothy - Alicia Keyes, just for any excuse to hear her sing!
Scarecrow - Shrub (if he only had a brain)
Tin Man - Shrub again (if he only had a heart)
Cowardly Lion - yep, Shrub again (if he only had the nerve to show up and take his drug test and complete his time in the ANG...)
Glinda - the late Kathrine Hepburn (can't you just hear her saying, "Rubbish - you have no power here! Begone with you before somebody drops a house on you too!"
Witch of the East - Phyllis Schlafly
Witch of the West - Ann Coulter
Wizard - gotta be Shrub again! Total phony...
Auntie Em - Maggie Smith 'cos I just love her
Uncle Henry - Morgan Freeman 'cos I just love him

[kodi]

1. casablanca

rick/bogie/ george clooney
ilsa lazlo/ingrid/julia ormand
victor lazlo/paul heinred/liam nieson
captain renault/gary oldman
sam/ray charles
buiggitti(?)/peter lorre/steve buscemi
col strasser/ralph fiennes (he does good nazis anyway)
sidney greenstreet character/marlin brando

[grannylib]

2. Love Julia Ormond - i wanna see this version!

[kyrasdad]

3. Titanic

Rose- Jeanine Garafalo
Old Rose- Ann Richards
Jack- Paul Begala
Cal (the miserable fiance of Rose)- Tom DeLay
Ruth (Rose's selfish, miserable mother)- Ann Coulter
Captain Smith- Shrub
Bruce Ismay (the guy wo tells Capt. Smith what to do)- Karl Rove
Thomas Andrews (the guy who designed and built this beautiful ship only to have it sunk at the hands of Capt. Smith and Ismay)- Bill Clinton
Molly Brown (Miss Unsinkable to you)- Hillary Clinton
The Lookout who first spots the iceberg- James Carville
Officer Murdoch (who'd rather shoot himself than own up to his crime)- Dick Cheney
All first class passengers who made it off in the lifeboats- CEO's and friends and families of CEO's of subsidiary companies of the White Star Line.
Sorry Sons of bitches left below decks or without lifeboats to drown- Working families, retired fixed income folks, blacks, hispanics, gays, democrats, working poor, unemployed, homeless, etc.

[Iris]

4. nothing for Asscroft or Dumsfeld?

[Iris]

5. oh- and wouldn't Cheny be good for the Tin Man? He needs a new heart

both figuratively and literally.

[jafap]

6. a movie that can never be made

wouldn't Jim Carrey make a good scarecrow?
JR Bush cannot be the wizard, because the wizard says: "I am really a very good man, just a poor wizard."
Vin Diesel needs to be the tinman, since he was the Iron Giant.
How about Robin Williams as the Cowardly Lion?
I liked Lisa Kudrow in "Romy and Michelle". What if she played Glinda and Courtney Cox and Aniston played the witches of the east and west?

[grannylib]

7. *lol* I thought of that quote from the Wizard....

I would just have to change that line so he would say, "Yes, I am a really bad man and a poor pResident."