Susan Sarandon is reportedly going to play Cindy Sheehan in a movie. 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/03/19/INGEQHOQAA1.DTL&type=printable 

The sun is rising over a house in the Berkeley Hills, and in its modest studio apartment, America’s most compelling anti-war activist is making her bed, apologizing for the clutter and running late.

Cindy Sheehan was up much of the previous night while emergency room doctors treated her daughter for a painful cyst, but sleeping in is out of the question. Soon a car will whisk her off to a Canadian TV interview, to be followed by a local TV interview, and finally, fixing spaghetti for her three adult children in Vacaville — her home before the death of her soldier son Casey and the political trajectory of her anguish propelled her to divorce, to estrangement from friends, and to a frenetic campaign to end U.S. military involvement in Iraq.

And where is "home" to her now?

She pauses and sighs, sinking into the window seat and pulling a quilt up to her chin. "Nowhere, really … ."

She’s averaging just two days per month here. The next morning she will fly off again, the surreal star of what is — depending largely on one’s political perspective — either an epic tragedy or a farce. After stops for protests in New Orleans and Washington, D.C., she will breakfast in Manhattan with actress Susan Sarandon, who is set to portray her in a biopic movie. A crew will film Sheehan for a weekly reality series on the Sundance Channel. Her letters to President Bush inspired "Peace Mom," a one-woman monologue show in London. A memoir is due to her publisher April 1.

Well she sure has enjoyed her never ending 15 minutes of fame, hasn’t she?  A movie, with fellow liberal wack-tivist Susan Sarandon starring as her. This isn’t really such a surprise, Sarandon was the perfect choice to play the woman whose grief defies all logic and sense, and whose manipulating of images is itself masterful. 

They still love to champion her cause, the image of the grief stricken mother on a lone crusade is one that is hard to pass up.  But many tire of her antics blistering tiurades against her own supporters and her complete lack of judgement.

Consider this tidbit from the article:

Early during those muggy August days in Crawford — when Bush balked at meeting with her and instead went biking, saying it was important that he "go on with my life" — her credibility was at its peak.

It has since fallen, in the eyes of some. Whether that’s attributable to the fierce and sometimes false attacks of right-wing media or to her own complicity in over-exposure isn’t clear. But by the end of her "Camp Casey" protest, polls showed as many Americans viewed her unfavorably as favorably.

The right set its sights on her, labeling her a leftist dupe and mocking her as, in the words of one headline, "The Grief Pimp." When her husband filed for divorce, the Web site smokinggun.com posted the papers. Conservative scold Ann Coulter wrote: "Call me old-fashioned, but a grief-stricken war mother shouldn’t have her own full-time PR flack."

Sheehan’s image rose and fell on her willingness to publicize personal pain. A January Vanity Fair spread featured a photo of Cindy Sheehan, eyes closed, lying on her son’s grave: National Review columnist Jonah Goldberg suggested it was "the most shameless, exploitative stunt of the decade."

"These plainclothes celebrities become spotlight addicts. The lows of being out of the news cycle make them crave it all over again. So they ratchet up the zealot factor," said Matthew Fell, media director of the Center for Media and Public Affairs. "Cindy Sheehan went from letting her picture be taken, to posing, to mugging. She’s become a caricature of herself."\

Some people who respected her "Camp Casey" protest have been turned off by what they, too, see as her pushing the envelope. They blanched when she embraced Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and declared Bush a worse terrorist than Osama bin Laden (she says she addressed the issue of Chavez’ own human rights violations privately). She flirted with challenging at the polls California’s senior senator, Dianne Feinstein. And talking with Insight last week, she castigated Feinstein and other Democrats who authorized the war as "not ‘misled.’ I don’t buy that. They were war profiteers, plain and simple. Either they were political profiteers or financial profiteers. There’s blood on their hands."

It’s clear she is a media whore, who will use anything to convey her message, regardless of the cost to herself and others, and Hollywood is joining the MSM and the Democracts in the willing partnership of codependent users. 

Some  might call her a victim or someone who is willing to sacrifice all, but in reality she is just another one in a long line of grand-standers with an agenda.

Some may hold her up as a role model, but I see her as someone whose grief is frankly obsessive, disrespectful and unhealthy. 

I hope she enjoys the movie.  I wonder if Moore is directing?

(my other Sheehan posts: Here)