Alan Peppard

Texas Monthly's Dallas-based executive editor Skip Hollandsworth and former Texas Monthly reporter Robert Draper were among the George W. Bush experts the The Hollywood Reporter consulted about an advance script of Oliver Stone 's upcoming biopic, W. The paper got hold of an October 2007 draft and asked the journalists if the script, which was penned by Stanley Weiser, who co-wrote Wall Street with Mr. Stone, bore any resemblance to reality. Two subsequent drafts have reportedly been written.

"It leaves you with the impression that the White House is run as a fraternity house with no reverence for hierarchy, the office itself or for the implications of policy," Robert told the paper. He is the author of Dead Certain: The Presidency of George Bush. "Everybody calling everybody else nicknames and chatting about whether to go to war as if they were chatting about how to bet on a football game really misses the mark," he says.

Skip is dubious about the scene that has W. telling Laura Bush he wished his father had not been elected president. "That story was running around," Skip told THR. "But he was extremely upset later about [Ross] Perot entering that race, and very angry. That doesn't make sense."

The $30 million film will star Josh Brolin as George W. and James Cromwell as George H.W., Elizabeth Banks as Laura Bush and Ellen Burstyn as Barbara Bush.

Apparently Norton Cuban was trying to keep his birthday a secret during a Monday night celebratory dinner at Al Biernat's steakhouse. But when his three sons joined him and the birthday cards appeared, the word was out. And when one of those sons was billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, well, people paid attention.

Eight years ago this week, women of the world let out a collective wail similar to the one heard after Paul McCartney's 1969 wedding.

Tuesday was the eighth wedding anniversary of former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman and his wife, the former Rhonda Worthey . Back in 2000, the couple wed in a quiet ceremony at home.

The late William F. Buckley Jr. may have had the quintessential Yankee accent, but his roots ran deep in Texas. So it was appropriate that Texans were in the house last week at the memorial mass for the National Review founder at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral.

Mr. Buckley's grandfather, John Buckley, was the sheriff of Duval County in South Texas. Mr. Buckley's father, oilman William F. Buckley Sr., was born in Washington-on-the-Brazos and entered the University of Texas in 1900.

D Magazine publisher Wick Allison, former publisher of National Review, was in the pews at St. Patrick's, as was John Goodman, president of the Dallas-based National Center for Policy Analysis and a frequent guest on Mr. Buckley's TV show, Firing Line .