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By Claudia Mitchell Special to the Rappahannock News
This Friday the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and Community (RAAC) will show its final film of the spring season. "Charlie Wilson’s War" is based on a true story that many company people in our area probably could have written with just as much if not more insider scoops. Think back to the “three martini lunch” Washington and you fall into the correct time period. Congressman Charles Wilson, played by Tom Hanks, was a free wheeling Congressman from Texas. He came complete with cowboy boots, swaggering magnetism that attracted the ladies, a tendency toward Playboy centerfolds, alcohol at 10 a.m. meetings and some cocaine thrown in for an extra POW! His office staff was made up of young beautiful women in revealing out fits (one was nicknamed “jail bait”) who make his assistant played by Amy Adams seem like a lamb ready for the slaughter.
The story seems implausible. A wealthy Texas socialite played by Julia Roberts is obsessed by the outrageous injustices being done to the Afghan people by the Russians who have invaded their country and appear to be unstoppable. If this were not a true story I think the audience would be crying foul about now. She even invites the president of Pakistan to a luncheon fund raiser in Houston and he agrees to attend. It’s true.
We begin to see the complexities of Charlie Wilson
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