Just another reason for conservatives to hate the Washington Post:

Ridley Scott won’t say whom he has in mind to play Ronald Reagan in his planned movie about the 1986 Reykjavik Summit — but he urged us to pick your brains for suggestions. Among your ideas: Brendan Fraser (well, maybe in 30 years), Tom Selleck (hmmm . . . ) and Clint Eastwood (we won’t rule it out).

Perhaps the most provocative suggestion? Alec Baldwin. “He has the gravitas, talent and physical characteristics to play President Reagan well,” wrote Mike Blevins of Great Falls. “Of course, Mr. Baldwin couldn’t be more different from Mr. Reagan in terms of political philosophy, but that’s why they call it ‘acting.’”

Political ideology aside, isn’t Baldwin simply way too fat?

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Wait a minute. Has Alzheimer’s afflicted all of Ronald Reagan’s presidential library staff, too? According to a published report, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum can’t locate or account for approximately 80,000 valuable mementos from his White House years. The National Archives inspector general has concluded that the library in Simi Valley suffers from sloppy record-keeping, security breakdowns and major storage problems. National Archives spokeswoman Susan Cooper has told the LA Times that her agency is working to account for the missing items.

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Coming soon to a bookstore near year: Ronald Reagan’s personal diaries, full of “neat, rounded handwriting in ink that is variously blue or black,” according to Douglas Brinkley, the Tulane history professor who was assigned to edit the five large, leather-bound volumes for publication. Those of you looking for some sultry sex talk about Nancy Reagan will be sorely disappointed, but, fear not, all is not lost:

-”Getting shot hurts,” Reagan wrote after the attempt on his life.

-Ronald Reagan Jr. deeply resented being forced to have Secret Service protection, wrote his dad: “He thinks we’re interfering with his privacy. I can’t make him see that I can’t be put in a position of one day facing a ransom demand … In fact he’s on a hit list.”

-Five months later, Ron Jr. came to the White House “for a family pow-wow. He’d been rude to Nancy on a phone call and when I phoned him about it he said he thought we needed to clear the air. It wasn’t the greatest meeting but still I think it opened the door to a close relationship. He seemed to be carrying water for Patti [the Reagan’s daughter] who has a kind of yo-yo family relationship. He’s either warmly attentive or very distance and Nancy seems to bear the brunt of it.”

-The next April: “Ron called all exercised because (Secret Service) agents had gone into their apartment while they were in Calif. to fix an alarm on one of the windows.” (redaction). “I told him quite firmly not to talk to me that way and he hung up on me.” Read more…

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