“American Made,” a new movie starring Tom Cruise, hits theaters
across the fruited plain today. The original title of the flick was “Mena,” the
name of the Arkansas town that supposedly had a clandestine airfield that was
utilized to smuggle guns and drugs to and from Latin America during the time
Bill Clinton was governor. According to a story in The Hollywood Reporter, the
film “was poised to be the rare movie that could
unite those on either side of the political divide. After all, it's based on
the one conspiracy theory that implicates both Bill Clinton and George H.W.
Bush in a massive operation that involved cocaine smuggling, money laundering
and illegal arms exporting.”
The
original script, written by Gary Spinelli, contained a scene showing the then
Governor Clinton getting a lap dance at an Arkansas strip club. The Reporter article
says that was “the moment when the movie's real-life protagonist Barry Seal,
played by Tom Cruise, hatches an idea to enlist Clinton, who was then governor
of Arkansas, in the CIA-backed scheme.” It then states, in the very next
sentence: “The scene was nixed from the Gary Spinelli-penned script because the
producer and financier, Cross Creek Pictures, wanted to keep the film from
being political, according to sources.”
What?!!
Apparently, portraying two former presidents as
involved in a clandestine plot to launder money and smuggle drugs and guns
between Latin America and the United States isn’t political but showing one of them getting a lap dance is?
We’ve all been needlessly cheated out of some potentially
fantastic dialogue. I can almost hear then Governor Clinton talking to his
dancer: “Oh, baby, this is the best movement I’ve ever been behind, I’ll
tell you that right now! If you know what I mean, sweet cheeks, heh, heh! That’s
right, the Back Sides Matter Movement is a movement I can get behind all day long, darlin,’ and I mean that!”
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