‘Recount’ scribe will pen ‘Butler’
By Borys Kit April 30, 2009 “Recount” scribe Danny Strong has been tapped to write “The Butler,” Columbia’s story of Eugene Allen, a black man who served as a White House butler for 34 years. Laura Ziskin is producing the pic, which is based on Wil Haygood’s Washington Post story “A Butler Well Served by This …