Meryl plays Martha the mouth.Out Nip/Tuck creator Ryan Murphy--soon to make his big-screen debut as writer-director of the movie version of Augusten Burroughs's Running With Scissors--will make a somewhat lateral move from a dysfunctional family dysfunctional family Psychology A family with multiple 'internal'–eg sibling rivalries, parent-child– conflicts, domestic violence, mental illness, single parenthood, or 'external'–eg alcohol or drug abuse, extramarital affairs, gambling, to the Nixon administration with Dirty Tricks dirty tricks pl.n. Informal 1. Covert intelligence operations designed to disrupt the economy or upset the political situation in another country. 2. . Based on the play by John Jeter, Tricks looks at the loose lips Loose Lips is a politics column published in the Washington City Paper, a United States of America (U.S.) alternative weekly newspaper serving the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. It is billed as "The definitive guide to hometown politics in the nation's capital. that fueled the Watergate scandal. The all-star cast includes Meryl Streep as legendary blabbermouth Martha Mitchell, Scissors scissors Cutting instrument or tool consisting of a pair of opposed metal blades that meet and cut when the handles at their ends are brought together. Modern scissors are of two types: the more usual pivoted blades have a rivet or screw connection between the cutting ends star Annette Bening as reporter Helen Thomas, Gwyneth Paltrow as Maureen Dean, and Jill Clayburgh as frosty first lady Pat Nixon. No word as to who'll play Dick when the movie starts shooting next spring. |
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