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...meet Cal McAffrey (Crowe), star reporter and resident curmudgeon of the Washington Globe, as he's pursuing what seems to be the all-too-routine murder of a drug dealer. Another Globe staffer, perky bloggista Della Frye (Rachel McAdams), is digging for sexual dirt attending the relationship of a Capitol Hill researcher, dead in a train accident, to her boss, Congressman Stephen Collins (Affleck). Cal muscles in on Della's story because in college he was close to the budding politician - and even closer to Stephen's wife, Anne (Robin Wright Penn). As Cal and Della form an uneasy alliance...
...reveal the killer. The movie is seriously compressed, as a 2-hour film must be from a 5-hour 41-minute TV show, but not fatally crippled. It reduces the number of reporters on the story from five to two, as well as ditching the subplot of a tryst Cal has with Anne. In the TV series Cal has two houseguests. Stephen and then Anne; it seems just the tiniest bit compromising for a reporter to house the subject of his story, then bed the man's wife. But Cal, even on threat of being fired, can't renounce...
...perfectly symbiotic; the two use their complementary skills of wheedling, flirting, threatening to find out who done it and why. Newspaper fans and employees will be pleased to know that in the film, as in the series, all the reporters are smart, indefatigable and - if you allow for Cal's friendship with Stephen - scrupulously honest. Aren't we terrific...
...script, you can guess that each worked consecutively on the material, trying to slim it down or punch it up; and that each was employed to fix the "improvements" the previous man had made. It's been reported that Brad Pitt had been signed to play Cal, but departed the project after difficulties with the script. Pitt was right: none of the writers had solved the adaptation...
...would typically follow your advice, but my bibliography is only half done! For the next few days, I willfully checked THE_REAL_SHAQ each time I took a thesis break. Shaq wrote about everything from his travels with the Phoenix Suns (“I’m n cal a forn eye. A.”) to Shaq-ifying everyday words (in addition to the aforementioned shaqberry and shaqness, Shaq has also expanded my vocabulary to include “Shaqsomnia” and my personal favorite, “Shaqntifficaly impossible”). He shares the joys...