But who plays Atticus? Do we have a rational, ethical, calm but passionate father figure defending the principles of goodness and humanity?

Bill Moyers?

I vote for Erick Erickson as Burris Ewell.

Moyers is a great choice. I was going to say Jim Hightower but I really like Moyers.

Ed Schultz as Atticus Finch.

(Yes, I am trying to start trouble.)

For this 2012 Mayan Apocalypse revival of Mockingbird, the parts of Boo Radley and Atticus Finch will be combined and played by Glenn Beck while tripping on shrooms.

Does this mean that Rachel Maddow plays Scout?

Al Gore as Boo Radley

For a guy with bassets, ur awfully smaart….

Thanks guys… now I gotta go read a friggin’ book just to understand the snark!

(mumbles) Stupid elitist hippies with their fancy-pants high school edumacations…

Bob Ewell – Dick Cheyney
Mayella Ewell – Christine O’Donnell
Atticus – Bernie Sanders
Boo Radley – Tbogg!

And all parts of the 12 member jury will be played by Sean Hannity, often in drag.

It may be typecasting, but that does not make it any less true.

That’s some excellent casting on the parts of Hatmandu and Dr. Turk

Scout – Rachel
Bob Ewell – Dick Cheney
Mayella Ewell – Christine O’Donnell (brilliant, Hat)
Atticus – Bernie Sanders
Boo Radley – Al Gore

throw in Young Ezra as Jem and Jonathan Capehart as Tom Robinson and that’s one hella movie.

“In the Heat of the Night” has the same implications. Maybe TBogg is on to something, art imitates life imitating art.

Wait till T-Bogg does a review of the 2012 Republican Presidential Debates as an epilogue to Inherit the Wind. That’s gonna be a corker…

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest would be too easy.

Jeez, and not one minute ago I Tweeted that the Repug campaign is a real-life, real-time version of Smokin’ Aces. Obama is Jeremy Piven, whom they’re all out to whack. As for who is which sociopath or outright lunatic, I report, you decide.

That cast’s utterly lovely, Turk and Hat… but here’s one question for you. What could possibly be the equivalent of Boo’s role on the walk home in the dark? (Trying not to sow spoilers for you lucky guys who’ve never read this great book.)

There’s also the description of the Bachmann presidential campaign, which is going to follow the path laid out in The Sound and the Fury.

Let’s hope that we don’t wind up with either a Bachmann or Perry Administration. Then it would become a remake of The Sorrow and the Pity.

And now to prove just how petty Speaker Boehner is he’s refusing to allow the President to speak to a Joint Session of Congress on September 7th, citing the fact that Congress doesn’t reconvene until that evening and there isn’t enough time to do a “security sweep” of the chamber. The historian of the House is flabbergasted that the Speaker would refuse a Presidential request to address Congress.

Instead, he wants the President to speak September 8th (which, coincidentally, is opening night for the NFL). If the President did that, the networks carrying the games would scream bloody murder and Boehner would happily trash the President for pre-empting football.

Now wouldn’t it be a pity if Speaker Boehner fell on his kitchen knife?

So when does Obama sing ‘Glad To Be Gay?‘

Hatmandu for the win!

I think it will be more like “Lord Of The Flies”. It’s a little like that already IMHO.

Come attrition
Come the avarice
Come attrition
Come hell

edumacations!!?…that’s ejamacashuns,city boy…

John Kerry for Atticus,
Tina Fey for Scout
Michele Bachmann for Mayella
Glenn Beck for Boo …yeah, I know it’s against type, but he’s got the crazy

Thanks a lot, T-Bogg. I had to look up chifforobe.

I had always thought I might be 1/16th Chifforobe on my father’s side, but turns out it’s actually 1/64th Chippewa.

Glenn Beck for Boo …yeah, I know it’s against type, but he’s got the crazy

‘Ceptin’ Boo wasn’t ACTUALLY crazy.

He was just Truman Capote as a child.

Julia@27 – It’s been a while, OK, a really long while since I read it, but I do remember that part. The Truman-as-a-child character is Dill, the weedy little tow-headed boy who comes to stay (with his aunt IIRC) near the Finches, and is about the same age as Scout. Boo Radley is the adult recluse who lives, protected by his family, down the street, and is seen as a bogeyman by the kids.

I am ashamed to admit that I have never read the book nor even seen the film. I was _pretty_ sure what was being referenced, but I had to double-check IMdB to be sure.

On the bright side, while looking for an electronic version that could be loaded to a Kindle, I found this site, which has a link to the text and an audio version.