Tea Leoni (hot) and David Duchovny are teaming up on American Dreams. A book by Readers Digest’s former Managing Editor, Peter Canning.
The couple likely won’t appear in the film; according to a statement from Leoni from Variety, “This is what happened to their American dream, when it got filtered through the right wing.” Canning, a 25-year vet of the mag who rose to managing editor, writes that the magazine’s idealistic goals got compromised as it grew into a juggernaut after WWII. It became a pulpit for a conservative agenda, and the founders allowed it to be used as a tool by the CIA and the FBI. The founders also lost themselves when they became rich and passive as people pawed for money and control of their empire. “They were manipulated by a system that was so much bigger than they were. The wealthier they got, the more vulnerable they became,” Leoni said.
I am still trying to digest this.
So Readers Digest is a political tool? I still religiously read this magazine every time I visit the bathroom at my grandmother’s house. Yeah its light reading with candy coated morals. Its filled with short stories, joke pages, vocabulary puzzles, and tales of people overcoming the odds. Its a feel good book with stories long enough to pass the time while you pass your … time.
Maybe I will wait until the book about this gets condensed and is released alongside the Reader’s Digest Condensed version of DaVinci Code and BioDome.
