LA Times Ponders "What Actress Would Play Sarah Palin?"

If a movie were made of Sarah Palin's life, who would play the Pit Bull with Lipstick?

That's what Rachel Abramowitz at the Los Angeles Times puzzles over in her "Hollywood Brief" posted on Friday.

According to her, conventional wisdom suggests that this woman "is a lock for the part."

But if left up to Abramowitz, she'd pick someone else, an actress whose husband could also play 'first dude' Todd Palin.

As fascinating as her choice in casting is the fact that this 'truth is stranger than fiction' tale would likely not have been green-lighted in Tinseltown. As Abramowitz notes:

I asked a few creative people around town how they'd pitch the Palin story to the studios, but most demurred, because they said it was too unbelievable for Hollywood.

"If you created a character who was an evangelical Christian and hunted caribou with a machine gun, people would say it's too broad for even satire," says writer-director Gary Ross, who wrote the 1993 presidential comedy "Dave."