{"id":983,"date":"2007-12-31T03:23:58","date_gmt":"2007-12-30T17:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=983"},"modified":"2007-12-31T03:23:58","modified_gmt":"2007-12-30T17:23:58","slug":"2007-fuck-off-and-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=983","title":{"rendered":"2007 — fuck off and die"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s to 2008, mate.<\/p>\n

And following<\/a> on from Rosario Dawson in This Revolution<\/em> and Charlize Theron in Battle in Seattle<\/em> comes Sacha Baron Cohen in The Trial of the Chicago Seven<\/em>: “Sacha Baron Cohen will portray Abbie Hoffman, a figure from the 1960s counterculture who used a series of pranks to campaign against the war. Baron Cohen is expected to be paid about \u00a33m for the film” (John Harlow, No more jokes as Borat turns war protester<\/a>, The Sunday Times<\/em>, December 30, 2007). The article gives a typically garbled account of the trial, Hoffman, and his significance; a better account may be found elsewhere (including the period he spent underground from 1973–1980, re-emerging to give an interview with Barbara Fucking Walters \/ 60 Minutes<\/em>!) in Marty Jezer’s Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n