HBO assured me I'll have a review DVD of their new movie about the 2000 presidential election debacle in Florida, Recount, by Tuesday morning. The movie debuts at 9 p.m. May 25

But until then, looking at the preview now in circulation on YouTube, it seems their casting people came pretty close to the dream cast I assembled when news first leaked about the film last year.

They took my advice about casting an Englishman as the Velvet Hammer, Bush consigliere James Baker, except they went with ace Oscar nominee Tom Wilkinson instead of Anthony Hopkins (maybe they saw Hopkins in the Human Stain and realized how painful it can be watching him try to sound like an American).

Alas, my hope that Eddie Izzard would get the Katherine Harris gig was for naught; Laura Dern looks better in a skirt, anyways.

Here's a preview of the film; I'm still hoping to get an interview with Denis Leary when I spend a few days in New York next week.