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Interesting speculation regarding the movie and its connection to dubya. I am
intrigued by the connection with the fraternity and the idea that the son was a member
of Skull and Bones just to please Bush Sr.
On Tue, 29 February 2000, Kris Millegan wrote:
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> The Skulls is a new Universal Studios feature starring Joshua Jackson and
> Paul Walker about a young man's initiation into a secret society at an
> unnamed university in New Haven, Connecticut. Duh. Reportedly, Skull and
> Bones, a very secret sort of group, sent its members a note to dummy up. Too
> late. The movie's due out the end of March, and whatever the scriptwriters
> didn't know about Skull and Bones, they just interpolated events based on
> what they knew about George W. Bush's time at Yale.
>
> Slate reporter Timothy Noah opines that "the note may have been sent out in
> response to a very specific threat to Bones' presidential candidate
> [Bush].... The movie is obviously a takedown of Skull & Bones.... For the
> Bush camp, the fact that Hollywood is making an establishment-conspiracy
> movie about Skull & Bones (many of whose members, Bush père included, have
> ended up working for one of Hollywood's favorite whipping boys, the CIA) is
> bad enough. But check out the trailer, which includes a scene in which
> initiates get branded." Although Skull and Bones' members are sworn to
> absolute secrecy, there have never been rumors of branding within that
> hallowed institution.
>
> However, Bush watchers "have heard about branding in connection with George
> W.'s youthful exploits in another Yale organization, the Delta Kappa Epsilon
> fraternity. Deke's branding rituals were attacked by the Yale Daily News ("a
> degrading, sadistic and obscene process") and then became the subject of a
> story in the New York Times that quoted Yale senior and past Deke president
> George W. Bush as likening the branding to "a cigarette burn." [We recall
> that Bush told the reporter that in tuff Texas fraternity initiates are
> treated to electric cattle prods.] Surely this conflation of Bones rituals
> and Deke rituals constitutes a deliberate attack on George W."
>
> Noah is amused that the movie takes a Bush fraternity misadventure and brands
> it as part "of the Bones conspiracy, because, as Nicholas Lemann, who
> profiled George W. recently in The New Yorker, points out, George W. is "much
> more of a Deke than a Bonesman." Indeed, in First Son, Bill Minutaglio's
> biography of George W., the author suggests that George W.'s membership in
> Skull & Bones was yet another case of the hapless and reluctant son doing
> daddy's bidding."
>
> That being the case, Junior and Poppy will be absolutely livid if they get
> around to reading the plot synopsis at the film's web site, which includes
> the following: "In addition, each initiate is assigned a "soulmate." For Luke
> it's Caleb Mandrake [That would be Bush. A mandrake is a plant. Get it?
> Plant, Bush?] a handsome and charismatic fifth generation Skull. Caleb and
> Luke become fast friends, each finding admirable qualities in the other. For
> Caleb, Luke possesses everything he lacks-self-reliance, ambition and drive.
> And in Caleb, Luke has a clear view of everything he aspires to-wealth,
> sophistication and prestige. Caleb's father Litten Mandrake (Craig T. Nelson)
> is a prominent judge, and one of the highest members on The Skulls council.
> As a Skull initiate, Luke is invited to be a part of the Mandrake family's
> holiday gatherings, creating a stronger bond between him and his soulmate.
> But behind the Mandrake family facade there is unease. In private, Judge
> Mandrake treats his son harshly, disappointed in his lack of ambition and
> pride in his lineage. Caleb finds his father's disapproval unbearable, though
> he does his best to conceal it." --Politex, 2/24/00
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