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After years bouncing around Hollywood, “Atlas Shrugged” may yet see the light of the silver screen…

Hollywood could soon be going Objectivist.

After decades in development hell, Ayn Rand’s capitalism-minded “Atlas Shrugged” is taking new steps toward the big screen — with one of the film world’s most prominent money men potentially at its center.

Ryan Kavanaugh’s Relativity Media is circling the Baldwin Entertainment project and could come aboard to finance with Lionsgate, which got involved several years ago.

Rand’s popular but polarizing book — it’s derided by many literary critics but has a huge public following — tells the story of Dagny Taggart, a railroad executive trying to keep her corporation competitive in the face of what she perceives as a lack of innovation and individual responsibility.

Read the rest at Risky Biz.

It’s finally happened. One of my friends actually had to hang up on me in order to respond to a Tweet. Time to redefine the term “friend”….

Actor and longtime political activist Ron Silver died this morning, succumbing to a long battle with cancer, friends of the liberal Democrat-turned-GOP stalwart told The Post.

Another great NY actor, and a fellow alumnus of Stuy High, Silver was an independent thinker who was not afraid to change his political rockbed when it no longer bore any resemblance to reality. We’ve lost another great one.

This award winning film from 2006 should be mandatory viewing for EVERYONE.

I LOVE to go drinking with Bob!

…here it comes.

The Associated Press is appearing to lead the way among the MainStreamMedia in discovering that our new President is just shy of reality on the proposal side of things. In this article, writers Calvin Woodward and Jim Kuhnhenn point out eight areas in the President’s speech last night that appear to be no more than wishful thinking. Here’s a sample:

OBAMA: “Regulations were gutted for the sake of a quick profit at the expense of a healthy market. People bought homes they knew they couldn’t afford from banks and lenders who pushed those bad loans anyway. And all the while, critical debates and difficult decisions were put off for some other time on some other day.”

THE FACTS: This may be so, but it isn’t only Republicans who pushed for deregulation of the financial industries. The Clinton administration championed an easing of banking regulations, including legislation that ended the barrier between regular banks and Wall Street banks. That led to a deregulation that kept regular banks under tight federal regulation but extended lax regulation of Wall Street banks. Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, later an economic adviser to candidate Obama, was in the forefront in pushing for this deregulation.

Take it or leave it.