Spidey pal to be at GI Film Festival

So I was on the phone earlier with pal, D.C. correspondent, and GOP-V poet laureate Cheryl Felicia Rhoads earlier, and she was filling me in on the upcoming GI Film Festival on May 14-18 in Washington. (Speaking of that, "Platoon" is on TV right now, the charming scene where they're ordered to empty the latrines... T-minus an hour and a half until Willem Dafoe dies and I start tearing up and sniffling.)  Anyway, Cheryl said that James Franco of Spidey fame (yeah, he won a Golden Globe for being James Dean) will be at this year's fest, getting a Heritage Award for portraying GIs onscreen. Other Hollywood folk there will include Gary Sinise and Jon Voight (hopefully with the white scarf).

The first deadline for submissions has passed, but the late deadline is March 15 and the extended deadline is April 1 (features and docs accepted).

Check out Cheryl's write-up of last year's inaugural GI Film Fest!

(Current "Platoon" scene -- I'm singing along to "Tracks of My Tears"...)