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Clinton recently told an interviewer that he'd merely "grabbed him by the shoulders and turned him around" during the incident. At the time, Clinton gave another version to former Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer. "Bill told me he slapped Dick," says Roemer. And Morris says the whole thing never happened...
...years Morris was dogged by rumors that he made up his poll numbers and skewed his samples to support his own strategic arguments. "We got to the point where we didn't really believe his polls," says Roemer, who hired Morris during his upset 1987 victory over Edwin Edwards for Louisiana Governor. "We used another pollster. With Dick, numbers were never the point. Ideas were." Though Morris denies cooking his figures, he too may have realized that poll taking wasn't his strength. He became a general strategist and let professionals like Penn and Schoen do the polling...
...through town. The affair is not long without complications. Desiree's jealous lover Carl-Magnus (Daren Firestone), a moronic dragoon who loves to fight, shows up just as the two lovers are emerging from her bedroom, and soon he is complaining of the infidelity of his wife Charlotte (Vonnie Roemer). Charlotte is down but not defeated and sets about planning to win him back. A weekend at Desiree's family estate provides the perfect opportunity for all jealous lovers and spouses to set things right again...
...merely desired. The result is a series of quasi-serious conflicts rather than the farcical situation comedies of the script. Stokes attempts some slapstick with his rejected advance on his prudish wife, but de Lima dulls the exasperations of their frustrated marriage by taking her role too seriously. Only Roemer always sustains a humorous bite in her more emotionally challenging scenes...
...Yvonne Roemer as Ada plays the role with powerful spite, and as the initiator of most of the action, prods the other characters into deeper levels of hatred. She is vehement. The three post-teeny boppers, played by Jessica Yager, Bess Wohl, and Rashida Jones, are bubbly and keep effervescing until the climax leaves them flat. The two widows, played by Rebecca A. Murray and Jenni Paredes, provide timely comic relief; their speech oscillates between keen observation of the way things used to be and transparent example-setting for why they must change...