A movie called "Fair Game" opens this week, starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts as Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame.
The spectacle is irresistible, as Liman and screenwriters Jez and John-Henry Butterworth unspool a story all about truth versus lies, professionals versus amateurs, villains versus heroes and patriots versus posturing careerists. Penn plays Joseph Wilson with a good eye for the real Wilson's two-fisted intellectual quality and for the way his veneer of calm persuasiveness barely covered his outrage. He's effectively contrasted with David Andrews, who plays Lewis "Scooter" Libby as the worst kind of bully, an amoral weakling hiding behind his boss' skirt.
I'm not going to pad out a diary. Mick LaSalle's review is better than anything I can say about it. You can read it at SF Gate. Put a smile on my face.