Inside Oliver Stone's Leaked Bush Biopic Script

The script for Oliver Stone’s biopic about George Bush has leaked to the press, and Juliet Lapidos picked through it to find some choice lines for Slate:

• The future president’s proudest moment at Yale? Pouring “cheap vodka into a large garbage can” while another frat pledge “mixes in orange juice.”
• The day after he turns 40, a hung-over Bush gives up on a jog: “Heart POUNDING in his chest. ... Then leans over, retching.”

• Wooing a Texas belle, George W. says, “I’m as happy as a rabbit in a carrot patch with you.”
• Advises Paul Wolfowitz to “think about trimmin’ those ear hairs.”
• Reassuring Tony Blair about peace in post-invasion Iraq, Bush exclaims, “the last thing they’ll want’s ‘nother war ... they’re all Muslims anyway, (chuckling) and they gotta pray five times a day.”
• The president drinks non-alcoholic beer while Dick Cheney snickers, “Anyone can go to Baghdad. Real men go to Tehran.”

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