Thread: New face on dollar bill: Geena Davis

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New face on dollar bill:
Geena Davis
Star of ABC's 'Commander in Chief' stuck on top of Washington
Posted: October 16, 2005
9:45 p.m. Eastern


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The U.S. dollar is getting a modern makeover of sorts, as the Treasury Department has given its blessing for actress Geena Davis' portrait to be temporarily featured on top of President George Washington.




Davis is starring in ABC's new series, "Commander in Chief," a drama about the first woman president.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the network got federal officials to OK the circulation of an undisclosed number of dollar bills with stickers of Davis superimposed on the original "George W." as part of a promotion gimmick.

"If you do things right, you get higher 'talk value,'" Michael Benson, ABC's senior vice president for marketing, told the Times.

"It's about creating something that you want to tell your friends about, and show your family members," he said, adding: "You've got to make sure it's organic to the show, original and unexpected."

Critics such as Rob Hedelt at the Frederickburg Free Lance-Star in Virginia think the program could be designed to get Americans used to having a woman running the country.

"Is there something to the theory that having something happen in our national fiction makes it more likely to happen in real life?" Hedelt writes. "If that's the case, ABC's new 'Commander in Chief' may be paving the way for a woman to sit in the Oval Office, and doing a nice job telling that story, thank you very much."

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I expect the next thing we will hear is that Ted Kennedy rescued someone from drowning.