Hollywood is on life support and broadway has died.

How can you tell Hollywood has lost the ability to make cinematic magic come to life on the big screen and no grown-ups are around to apply CPR? Because the memoirs of Valerie Plame-Wilson is to be made into a motion picture. This storyline, shall be henceforth known as - the life-story most able to bore almost-all-American movie going public into a deep sleep. Larry King, take this as a warning, you have some serious competition when this pic is released on DVD/Blu-ray. Variety carries a report on the scavenger hunt for a ‘star’ to prop up what has to be the movie most like to blow and bore at the same time.

"Fair Game," the drama about the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson, has come together with Naomi Watts starring, "Mrs. and Mrs. Smith" helmer Doug Liman directing and William Pohlad's River Road financing.

But the big question is whether Oscar-winning "Milk" star Sean Penn will close a deal to play Ambassador Joseph Wilson. Penn is negotiating, but no deal has closed. Pohlad has a strong relationship with Penn: he was a producer on the Terrence Malick-directed "Tree of Life," which stars Penn and Brad Pitt, and Pohlad also was a producer and financier for "Into the Wild," which Penn directed.

Wilson watched his wife's CIA status become compromised after he wrote op-ed columns that accused the Bush Administration of manipulating intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq. The project, based on Plame Wilson's memoir, landed at Pohlad's River Road after Warner Bros. put the project in turnaround. Pic is being produced by Weed Road's Akiva Goldsman and Jerry and Janet Zucker of Zucker Productions.

Not only is Hollywood on life support, so is apparently the state of the live theatre. Rolling Stone:.

After launching at London's O2 arena in April, a live stage treatment of the Star Wars series, Star Wars: A Musical Journey, will make its way to the U.S. But organizers say they're steering clear of a straight forward musical theater treatment or "R2-D2 rolling across the stage," and are instead preparing a recontextualization of the iconic film franchise featuring an enormous LED screen, classic films scenes and, of course, John Williams' landmark score.

First announced in late 2008, Star Wars: A Musical Journey debuts April 10 in London, where 17,000 will be the first to sample the bombastic production. Williams is personally rearranging the neo-romantic space opera's leitmotifs like "The Imperial March" and the "Star Wars (Main Theme)" for performance live by the 86-piece Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir. The symphony will perform in front of a 100-foot LED screen displaying a LucasFilm re-edit of all six movies into one 90-minute narrative that syncs to the beat of Williams' new work.

The idea for Journey came during the scoring phase of post-production on Revenge of the Sith according to Howard Roffman, president of Lucas Licensing and a 29-year veteran of the company. "We were really looking for something that would be big and spectacular and reach as many people as possible and still deliver a really fantastic experience," he says.

Starwars – the musical journey...some things are just so wrong, wrong, wrong in any known universe but why can’t anyone in Lucasworld see what a lemon a Starwars musical is? Opening up new markets and taking advantage of marketing opportunities is all well and good, but not all mediums should be used as a delivery system. Nothing actually replaces a decent original writer and thinker - and some 30 year old plus ideas just really suck in the here and now.