Denzel Washington has given up hope that he will ever play the nation’s first Black president on the big screen – because he fears he is “too old” for the role.
The 54-year-old Oscar winner would like to play Barack Obama, 47, in a film but fears it will be many years before the president’s life is made into a movie.
He says, “When Obama’s story is ready to be told I’ll be too old to do it. And if it were made now, he has too much to do to have me asking for tips on how to play him.”
In an interview with the May 25 issue of Newsweek Magazine, President Barack Obama opened up about how his family is dealing with life in The White House — and how that might change once his tween daughters become teenagers.
“You know, the nice thing is that, partly because of temperament, partly because of Michelle’s unbelievable parenting skills, I’ve just got some happy, normal kids,” the Commander-In-Chief says of daughters Sasha, 10, and Malia, 7. “And all that stuff that’s going on around them, they just kind of miss. We have not seen any effects, any fishbowl effects, yet on them.”
“Now, I worry about them when they’re teenagers where, you know, you’re already embarrassed about your parents and even more embarrassed on TV all the time,” he explains. “And dating I think will be an issue because I have men with guns surrounding them at all times [laughter], which I’m perfectly happy with, but they may feel differently about it.”
Anti-abortion protestors in South Indiana greeted President Obama with boos and hisses as he arrived to give the commencement address at Notre Dame University over the weekend.
Republican-affiliated network Fox has become the first broadcast network to turn down a request for air by President Barack Obama. On Wednesday Instead of airing the president’s prime-time news conference on Wednesday, FOX will broadcast its drama Lie to Me.
ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC and CNBC are all carrying the 8PM EDT event — albeit grudgingly –which falls on Obama’s 100th day in office.
The President of the United States and his bare chest are gracing the May 2009 cover of Washingtonian Magazine.
It is a move some critics are calling disrespectful, asking if the magazine would have put shirtless photos of a White president on its cover.
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The cover photo was shot by members of the paparazzi while the then-President-elect was on vacation in his native Hawaii in late December. Washingtonian changed Obama’s bathing suit from black to red and edited out the background featured in the original photo.
“You have a buff president and the paparazzi like taking shirtless photos of him,” Garret Graff, Washingtonian’s Editor-At-Large told ABC News on Tuesday. The Prez is “really hot,” she added.
A Turkish reporter is being hailed a comic hero in the Turkish TV world after he wore blackface while doing a report on United States President Barack Obama on Tuesday.
Just days after it arrived on store shelves, the Barack Obama Chia– the latest invention in the Chia Pet line of ceramic chia seed planters-has been pulled from circulation in Chicago and Tampa Bay Walgreens stores after the chain was flooded with allegations of racism. Read the rest of this entry »
President Barack Obama paid a visit to The Tonight Show on Thursday, where he jokingly discussed everything from the AIG bailout and March Madness to the long-awaited White House dog.
