Looking Back
Hot Gallery: These Stars Have Made Headlines—and Played Real-Life Newsmakers, Too
They’re newsmakers without even trying. We’re talking about the innovators, politicians, activists, heroes and, yes, villains who inspire headlines. We know their stories; but that just makes casting them that much harder. Here they are: Newsmakers and the stars who have tackled their stories onscreen. By Nina Hämmerling Smith
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Josh Brolin as George W. Bush in W.; President George W. Bush
Oliver Stone’s unapologetically critical biopic was strategically released at the end of the president’s second term and the height of the 2008 campaign to elect his successor. Telling the president’s story from Yale through the Iraq war and beyond, Josh Brolin eerily captures both Bush’s demeanor and voice.
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