Huey Goes To Hollywood

Venezuelan President and perennial nutcase Hugo Chávez went viral at last year’s U.N. General Assembly with a classic sound-bite, saying he smelled sulfur in the Hall after ‘the devil’ (i.e., President Bush) had been there the day before. Take a big whiff, America, ’cause that distinct odor of Dubya-bashing might wind up at a theater near you.

Time reports the Venezuelan government will commit $18 million to a movie about Toussaint L’Overture, the historic liberator of Haiti from European rule, in an attempt to awaken the country’s slumbering (that is, non-existent) film industry.

Directing the paper-thin allegory is Danny Glover, the pseudo-leftist star who’s spent nearly ten years seeking the dough to make Toussaint. Speculation abounds regarding their relationship.

Chavez critics in Washington, like Florida congressman Connie Mack, are blasting Glover for cutting “a sweetheart movie deal” with Chavez, whom they denounce as a protege of Cuba’s communist comandante, Fidel Castro.

And we all thought Glover was getting too old for this shit.

Hugo Chavez, Movie Mogul [Time.com]
Image [Timothy A. Clary / AFP / Getty]