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...night with wads of cash and Mary's passport. Outsiders thought they planned to race off to a country that would allow them to marry, but the boring truth was that they had gone to see Wag the Dog and get some food and beer. As romantic and manic as Mary can be, she never planned to flee with Vili. To where? And take him from his mother, the one person who has been sane and humane throughout all this...
Moore believes that Mary has bipolar disorder--most people know it as manic depression--an illness with a raft of possible symptoms, from irritability to hypersexuality. Moore theorizes that "psychosocial stressors" in Mary's life--the most crucial being the news of her father's cancer--tipped a disorder that had been mild and all but unnoticed into depression followed by a nervous breakdown. "I think she was very interested in this boy, and she had often extended relationships with students after school," Moore says. "But by [June 1996], she was overly elated, highly revved up and nearly delusional." Moore...
...Watch one, watch the other: Unapologetic fans of old Hollywood will feel incomplete if they don't rewind at this point to 1931 for The Front Page. OK, it's the same movie -- the first screen version of the manic Hecht-MacArthur play. But it's just as good, which is more than can be said for the 1974 version with Walter Matthau or Switching Channels (1988) for that matter. Lesson: the remake game never works twice...
...truly sad that Jim's last image is that of a man destroyed by manic depression and bitter resentment. His last years were not happy because he battled an illness and a betrayal of his own conscience. I pray that he has now found peace. As Jim would always say, "No sad songs...
Richard Jemmons, the self-proclaimed redneck spin surgeon (played by Sling Blade's Billy Bob Thornton), is transparently James Carville. Daisy Green (Maura Tierney in the film) shares resumes with campaign adviser Mandy Grunwald. Libby Holden (Kathy Bates), the manic "dust buster" who tries to cover up Stanton's peccadillos before they make the tabs' front pages, is similar to Betsey Wright, Governor Clinton's chief of staff and trigger-happy troubleshooter. Lawrence Harris (Kevin Cooney), the New England Senator who runs against Stanton until being felled by a heart attack, could be the physically frail Paul Tsongas. Cashmere McLeod...