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...Dole returned to Hollywood last week to praise films that "raise our vision of life instead of dragging us down." But within a day it became clear that Citizen Dole wasn't quite sure which movies he was talking about. Having singled out Independence Day as a positive example, he decided the movie might not be appropriate for kids after...
...Dole stumbled into a confounding question: What is a family movie? It's hard even for the industry to say. Certainly a lot of children have seen violent summer blockbusters like Independence Day, Twister and Mission: Impossible--movies that, while not gorefests, are hardly what Walt Disney would have envisioned as wholesome entertainment...
...know, what do you want to see?" That's a conversation I don't mind having on a regular Saturday night, but I'm hoping for something more on my 60th birthday--dinner in Paris, a play in London, an island getaway in Maine. But when you're Bob Dole, trailing in your race for President, even your wife's birthday has to give way to politics. If seeing an All-American hit is what morals consultant and vice-presidential possibility William Bennett orders, then it's off to Independence...
...first glance, the selection makes sense. As the biggest movie of the summer, it would resonate with the maximum number of voters. Normal folk buying tickets to the PG-13 film (no sex, please, we're the Doles) and indulging in Goobers and popcorn makes for an excellent photo-op. Culturally clueless--his favorite entertainers, Glenn Miller and John Wayne, are dead--Dole was taken to task after his first Hollywood "nightmares-of-depravity" speech for criticizing movies he hadn't seen and music he hadn't heard. Now that he was planning to do a back flip with...
...emerged blinking into the bright sun from his matinee last Monday, Dole gave a thumbs-up to ID4, not just as diverting summer fare, but--as he later called it--the type of movie that "lifts up our country instead of dragging it down." Of course, those words were written before he actually saw the film. In the version of ID4 that I saw, the country wasn't just dragged down, much of it was demolished by a fire-breathing spacecraft resembling a large piece of pita bread. Millions of our compatriots were blown away in a quite grisly fashion...