The incessant Hollywood rumor mill is awash with speculation about an upcoming biopic about one of our greatest presidents, Ronald Reagan. Producer Mark Joseph of The Passion of the Christ fame is apparently heading up the project. He commented that he was glad no one in Tinsel Town likes Reagan, so that he would have the chance to do such a film.
Yet John McCord, the screenwriter, makes no bones about his feelings for the former Chief Executive, calling Reagan, 'At best a bad actor, at worst a clown." It leaves one to wonder if someone with that attitude could ever be fair to the Reagan legacy.
This is the man who was perhaps the driving force towards ending the Cold War. A man whose policies shaped a decade of tremendous growth in America right after Jimmy Carter nearly rent us asunder. Ronald Reagan was precisely what we needed at precisely the right time. He reminded us that if we believed in ourselves and the American Dream, we could indeed make things better. For our nation, and the world.
Like him or not, that is his lesson to us, a lesson we are in danger of failing in light of the recent massive growth of the federal establishment. Maybe, just maybe, a decent and considerate movie about his life would be just the tonic to set us back on the right course.
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