OK, YEAH YEAH... BUT IS THERE REALLY MUCH SEPARATION BETWEEN SPEECHWRITER AND SCREENWRITER? THEY BOTH WRITE FICTION!

Not ME, you moron blogger! Get out of the house a bit, ok?

Forgive the moment of idiocy I just had when I thought our President-Elect's speech writer was the director of Iron Man and Zathura. (But I swear, it was only in my mind for like 2 seconds... I SWEAR!)

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The job requires him to work unnoticed, even in plain view, so Jon Favreau settles into a wooden chair at a busy Starbucks in the center of Penn Quarter. Deadline looms, and he needs to write at least half a page by the end of the day. As the espresso machines whir, Favreau opens his laptop, calls up a document titled "rough draft of inaugural" and goes to work on the most anticipated speech of Barack Obama's life. (WashPost)
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No, it's a much different Jon Favreau...