
By Romeo San Vicente
Jolie Rides the Rails
One of the
meatiest female roles in American literature that hasn't yet made it to
the big screen would have to be Dagny Taggart, the railroad executive who
keeps the trains going even as society crumbles around her in Ayn Rand's
objectivist fantasia Atlas Shrugged.
But
now it looks like Dagny's ready for her close-up, courtesy of Angelina
Jolie.
She's working with director Vadim Perelman (House of Sand and Fog)
to make the long-awaited film version of Atlas, and it looks like
they'll manage to pull it off before threatened guild strikes shut down
Hollywood sometime next summer.
Given Jolie's rather vocal lefty politics, it will be interesting to see
how Rand's right-wing fans respond to the film when it shrugs its way to
screens in 2008.
Side note: Angelina Jolie not only plays lesbian and bisexual roles,
she is open about the fact that she is bisexual and has had relationships
with both men and women. She was in a relationship with Jenny Shimizu, her
co-star in Foxfire in 1996.

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