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Thread ID: 4650 | Posts: 9 | Started: 2003-01-27
2003-01-27 23:12 | User Profile
ROCKVILLE, Md. (Jan. 26) - Charles Moose, the Montgomery County Police Chief who led the D.C.-area sniper investigation, plans to announce a deal for a book and possibly a movie about him, according to a published report.
New York literary agent David Vigliano told The Washington Post about the deal for a story in Saturday's editions, but would not identify the buyer or disclose the price. He said Moose would officially announce the deal Tuesday.
One publisher who was approached by the agent described the project as a blow-by-blow account of the investigation, interspersed with Moose's personal story of growing up poor and rising to the position of police chief.
Local officials have warned Moose that profiting from the deal could land him on the wrong side of Montgomery's strict ethics provisions, which bar police commanders from accepting even nominal fees for speaking publicly about the sniper shootings.
But County Executive Douglas Duncan, who hired Moose in 1999, said he believes the chief warrants an exception, given his central role in an investigation that riveted the nation.
"This is a special circumstance,'' Duncan said. "He's got a great story to tell America, and he should be able to do that.'' If necessary, Duncan said he would ask the County Council to pass legislation authorizing the deal.
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2003-01-27 23:46 | User Profile
What are rules for, if not to be broken in the name of diversity.
2003-01-28 01:27 | User Profile
The scenes of him overcoming White incompetence to solve the case will be riveting. Probably as riveting as the flashback scenes that will show his childhood battles against racist schoolmates, and sheet wearing KKK'ers burning down his noble father's farmhouse.
2003-01-28 01:33 | User Profile
"It was a dark and stormy muthafckn' night. I checked my nine, then went out into the racist streets full o' whitbrad crackahs all drivin' wh*te vans wit Confeddit flags ownnem..."
2003-01-28 02:14 | User Profile
Weisbrot, I see you have the dialogue pegged. Maybe you can hit them up for a rewrite.
2003-01-28 02:42 | User Profile
It was reported in the media last week that Moose was invited to speak at a black Baptist Church in Philly on Michael King Day, but he got lost and never made it to the church. Or so he says.
When the snipers were finally apprehended, it was disclosed that they had been in telephone communication with Moose and his department for about a week. Obviously Moose knew they were black, but he never withdrew orders to police in the DC area to look for a white man in a white van or white box truck. This may have contributed to one or more murders.
2003-01-28 10:02 | User Profile
Kicking around some working titles.
NIGGA PLEEZ...CHIEF
WHITE WIFE, WHITE VAN
LAW AND ODOR
2002: A RACE ODYSSEY
QUOTA COP! (ok, this would be a paperback original...)
Perhaps he'll favor us with one of those 'inspiring' autobios stressing his early poverty & struggles against racism in law enforcement: CHEESE AND CRACKERS, maybe, or LET NO WHITE MAN WRITE MY FITNESS REPORT
Or a Chandler/Cain pastiche: DUMBBELL INDEMNITY, featuring Sham Spade
Or a Holmesian locked-door myst (continues raving, while dragged offstage by orderlies in white coats)
2003-01-28 12:13 | User Profile
Charles Moose, the Montgomery County Police Chief who led the D.C.-area sniper investigation, plans to announce a deal for a book and possibly a movie about him.....
Starring Denzel Washington as Da Cheef, Tyne Daly as Da Obese, Self-Hating White Wife, and Sean Penn & Leonardo DiCaprio as Da Ebil White Supremiss Snipers.
A Spike Lee Joint.
2003-01-28 17:17 | User Profile
This is the career kick starter that ManTan Moreland has been waiting for, folks.
I can see him now opening the door to a white van and saying in his trademark tremulous voice "is anybody in dare?".
Then ever so slowly comes the dreaded answer: "ain't nobody heah but us snipers!".
You think FHTE jumper cabled Frankie's stalled career?
Sinatra got the role by offering to work for nada and tightwad Cohn couldn't turn the deal down. I'm advising Mantan baby to drop his usual demand for inking a contract - a brand new Packard 400 - in exchange for getting top billing over Jim Carey who will play the bumbling lead FBI investigator. Julia Roberts wants the plum role of Ms. Moose so bad she has agreed to put on 200 pounds.
The behind the scenes buzz from those who have seen the screenplay is that the role is a sure Oscar winner. Insiders tell me that in the climactic scene Ms Moose informs the Chief, who is standing in the middle of I95 during rush hour looking for white guys driving vans displaying Wallace 64 bumper stickers, that the snipers have been caught. This scene is said to rank right up there pathos wise with the scene in Roots when Diana Ross is informed she is being sold down the river to Mississippi. Yes, it's that emotionally charged, folks. And we can be sure that Ms Roberts will bring all of the emotional depth to her role that Ms Ross did. Of that we can be certain.