Foley's role in action flick unearthed

[DoYouEverWonder]

November 02, 2006

Mark Foley is being cast as a lot of things these days. But a B-movie actor?

In the wake of his resignation from Congress, people are rediscovering Foley's little-known role in a straight-to-DVD action flick.

During a short role as a congressman who hires mercenaries to recover his kidnapped daughter, Foley shows an acting range that politely could be called limited. But with the disgraced Fort Pierce Republican now a household name, the movie is generating new buzz.

Filmed in Palm Beach County and released in 2001 as The Librarians, the flick did not make much of a splash on its first go-round. Ditto for round two, when it was re-released two years later as Strike Force.

But Radar, an online Web magazine, unearthed the film this week after a freelance writer poring over Foley's financial disclosure forms noticed a $400 payment for his role in the movie.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/state/epaper/2006/11/02/a9a_foley_1102.html

[Demit]

1. Fred Thompson he ain't.

Wonder why the mods moved this from LBN? It's not shattering breaking news, but it's news, and it's current. :shrug:

[Hubert Flottz]

2. The NapalmBeach Post seemed proud of him...

Maf-54 "the Wad" Foley?

One of the best of the best, that the GOP has to offer America's kids!

[hedgehog]

3. Once again, republican politicians prefer a fantasy world to real life.

I just can't get over how many have written Walter Mitty type novels featuring themselves as Jack Ryan's successor. Real governing is hard work.