The Katie Couric/Sarah Palin interview grows more tiresome with every new re-view.
I mean really....stop it, please.
Couric's TV 2-shots seem always to have her grimacing (artfully, I suppose). Or the b-roll shows her body awkwardly angled away from Palin...(Kinda like: "Get me the heck out of this blind date!") Sarah Palin was "taken to the movies", but boy did that little Katie leave her eating popcorn kernels, alone....
What a mis-casting, from the get-go.
Given that, I decided to hit the movies myself and see if there were any other co-star mis-casting in a current movie that could lead me out of the blues and purge my feelings against the widow-woman, Katie. No, not really, but I found some terrific co-casting.
I found it in A Righteous Kill.....and then I found somethig even better! I found the key(s) to unlock the painful mystery of the Curic-Palin pain-fest:
Robert Deniro and Al Pacino.
What?
Yeah, listen up.....they should have been interviewed by "Katie the Knife". Cause, they're the only ones who can get away with saying the "F-word" and not make it sound like they're swearing....(keep reading for the "script")
Yep, see this current film (and the one they did a few years ago, "Heat" - black and white photo to the left) helps me see the proper way that interviewers should be talked to by interviewees at coffe shop diner tables.
Imagine Deniro/Pacino being interviewed as a political team running for President and Vice President...sitting across the table with Katie Curic.
It might go something like this:
Couric: So, tough guys, when did you stop beating your many wives....?
Pacino: (Slamming her left hand with the salt shaker). 'Scuse me. What was dat you said? (Screams echoing off the diner's pie stands)
Deniro: Alfonso, you did you not hear her? ( Cuffing Pacino's ear with his right palm). Leave her the F--- alone.
Pacino: (removing the pressure from the salt shaker) Oh, sorry, Katie...why didn't you ask us about the Wall Street bail-out vote that failed, instead?
Couric: (Adjusting her designer blouse's silky sleeve and feverishly rubbing the top of her left hand) Well, do you favor it? Maybe more importantly, do you even know what it is?
Deniro: What the F---? (Yelling to owner of the Little Italy diner) Hey who let this hag in here? Guido, we deserve respect, with our pie and pasta...get her the F--- out of my site.
Couric: (Being jumped on by two large swarthy gentleman of European descent) No, no, give me a second chance, please...
Pacino: C'mon Bobby, let 'er go. Let's let her ask one more question. But first before we do, I have to go to the men's room and use the facilities, if you know what I mean....
Deniro: (Chuckling to himself). Sure sure, Michael, I mean...Al. (pause, turning to her) Uum, Ms. Couric, you didn't see Godfather I or II, did you? (Pacino exists).
Couric: Ahh, no. (pause) Why did you ask?
Deniro: Um, well, let's just say if you stick around too long, I'm tinkin' the interview might really be over....
Couric: (paying no attention to his warning...) Oh, is that a picture of you and Mr. Pacino during the filming of that Godfather II movie?
Pacino: (returning from the lav with a towell-wrapped "package" in his right hand). Ummm, Miss Couric, Wanna see how I'd end debate on the bail-out bill with my opponents in the Senate, let alone how I ought to end a troubling interview wid a washed-up newsbabe? (fade to black.....)
Additional note: how about these as Campaign Posters for Deniro/Pacino in '08?
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