LINNEY MIGHT GET HER HANDS DIRTY
With newspaper ink, that is. HBO Films, which always seems to make the most compelling biopics (i.e. John Adams), is developing one about Katharine Graham, the venerable publisher of the Washington Post who oversaw the paper's historic Watergate coverage. And, according to the Hollywood Reporter, HBO wants Laura Linney for the role. The untitled project is being written by novelist Joan Didion and will follow Graham's ascendancy after her husband committed suicide in 1963.
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