This is sooooooo wrong: Tom Selleck to play Eisenhower

[CatWoman]

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - "These are the final days of my moustache," Tom Selleck declares.

Selleck isn't surprised that critics are already lining up to ask why he was chosen to play Dwight Eisenhower in the upcoming A&E telefilm "Ike: Thunder in June." In fact, just weeks before production is scheduled to begin on the original movie, Selleck's full head and full lip of hair remain untouched and decidedly anti-Eisenhowerian.

"When I head about it, my first question was, 'Why me?'" Selleck concedes. "I'm not sure I'd be my first choice."

http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271|85678|1|,00.html

[KissMyAsscroft]

1. Time to sign a petition!!!!!!!

We cant let him defame Ike!!!! BWGAGAGAGG!!!! Pukle ijf ie fdfj gvxj fbijd'f igjs<90ergijs igj0g [br />

LOL!....something like that.

[supernova]

2. I think some casting director

is about to lose their job. But Tom will still get a hefty payday. :eyes:

[JohnKleeb]

3. what a maroon

sheesh
Tom Selleck as Ike
Whats next
Jim Carrey as FDR

[crobinson2k]

4. What's the issue?

As far as I'm concerned, let James Brolin play Reagan even if he sleeps with Barbra "I'm not liberal. That's too conservative." Streisand. And let Selleck play Ike despite all the reasons that's a silly idea. Besides, anyone who gets their history from movies should be forced to listen to Oliver Stone's theories on JFK and then get laughed out of a lecture hall for quoting them.

What? Oversharing?

[JohnKleeb]

5. How does a guy like Selleck do Ike

I dont care lol.

[CatWoman]

7. while we're at it

let TC play McArthur.

I........Shall..........Return!!!

[BackDoorMan]

16. Selleck is a republican...so he'll shave his head and face,...

Ike was the classic, do nothing, don't fix it if it's not broken, stay the course, paranoid about the communist, republican...

Will they talk about his long love affair with his assistant? The republicans in congress forcing the two year presidential term Amendment (after sixteen years of ELECTED, FDR & democratic rule) his almost blind eye towards civil rights, until he was pushed into a corner? Nixon as his VP? Not a great Supreme Commander by any means, And what he's most known for...because he spoke out about in one of his final speeches, about the rise of the corporations and the "Military Industrial Complex" what did he do in eight years to curb it?

Nothing, do nothing!

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. Why not Robert Duvall?

He played Ike in some mini-series.

[joeybee12]

8. Ok, it is no certain--there is no God!

Who did this Repuke skank (Selleck) sleep with to get this role?

[CatWoman]

9. hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.............

[joeybee12]

10. Is John Hillerman still alive? Watched A Very Brady sequel recently,

and he really ballooned out nicely!

[supernova]

12. I think he died

several years ago of cancer. I loved, loved his voice.

[joeybee12]

13. That's too bad--yes, he had a very distinctive voice

And he was the ONE person on the show who deserved an Emmy!

Can't believe Selleck won one!

[elperromagico]

18. No no. John Hillerman LIVES

(as of today, at least).

[greatauntoftriplets]

11. with that 'stache,

Higgie could play Hitler.

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. I am ashamed of you all being against this just because Tom leans right

You should be against this because Selleck SUCKS as an actor.

That's why I'm apalled. His fifteen of fame in that miserably overwrought Magnum PI are long over, and there's no reason anyone should ever talk to him.

And is he really rightwing? I know he's pro the right to have guns, but so am I. But beyond that, I know nothing of his political stances. Probably, I'm sure, I've always ignored everything about him because I despise him as an "actor" so much.

[supernova]

15. He's no Johnny Depp

that's for sure. But Magnum PI was really important when I was 12. :D

And yes, oddly I did come to prefer John Hillerman's voice to everything else about that show. TS was inoffensive at best. I loed the scenes of Hawaii. Since I'll probably never actually see it.

[Zomby Woof]

17. He did ads for the National Review on TV for years

You're more than just a gun nut RWer to be a fan of that rag.

But yeah, he does suck as an actor. Much like Reagan, and Heston, and Norris, and Stallone, and... on and on...