2009: The Movie
Liars, and Tiger, and Bernie, oh my! Who would portray the year’s biggest newsmakers in the Hollywood version? The Daily Beast goes to the casting couch.
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Barack Obama (Will Smith)
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Michelle Obama (Taraji P. Henson)
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Bernie Madoff (Dustin Hoffman)
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Ruth Madoff (Barbra Streisand)
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Governor Mark Sanford (Chris Cooper)
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Jenny Sanford (Mary Steenburgen)
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Jon Gosselin (Rex Lee)
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Kate Gosselin (Kelly Ripa)
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Chesley Sullenberger (Sam Elliott)
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Sonia Sotomayor (Sara Ramirez)
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Sarah Palin (Megan Mullally)
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Levi Johnston (Joshua Jackson)
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David Letterman (John Michael Higgins)
French President Nicolas Sarkozy (Vincent Cassel)
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Carla Bruni (Ellen Pompeo)
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Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi (Joe Pesci)
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Michael Jackson (LaToya Jackson)
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Elizabeth Edwards (Blair Brown)
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Jeffrey Wright)
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JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon (Simon Baker)
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Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein (Wallace Shawn)
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Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner (John C. McGinley)
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke (Bob Hoskins)
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Jim Cramer (Louis C.K.)
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Susan Boyle (Jack Black)
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Adam Lambert (Joan Jett)
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Dan Brown (Gordon Clapp)
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Balloon Boy dad Richard Heene (Patrick Warburton)
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Balloon Boy Falcone Heene (A Cardboard Box)
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Carrie Prejean (Dianna Agron)
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Amanda Knox (Mandy Moore)
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Glenn Beck (Tom Wilson)
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Harry Reid (James Cromwell)
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Joe Lieberman (Ian McDiarmid)
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Nancy Pelosi (Jessica Walter)
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Tiger Woods (Daniel Sunjata)
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Elin Nordegren (January Jones)
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Rachel Uchitel (Jamie-Lynn Sigler)
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TMZ's Harvey Levin (Steve Gutenberg)
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