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...there were a string of films that attempted to confront, mock and criticize contemporary politics. Wag the Dog features a White House-recruited Hollywood producer creating a distraction--in the form of a fake war--from a risqu sex-scandal threatening the president on the eve of his re-election. Bulworth recounts the tale of a disenchanted and suicidal political icon who finds solace when he begins to speak the truth--rather than his usual lip service--regardless of the consequences of his offensive, yet candid, remarks. And Primary Colors tells the story of an idealistic political aficionado seduced into...
...Bulworth and Primary Colors, have tried to take swings at contemporary politics before and have each failed miserably. Their satirical messages felt tired and exhausted before they had even hit the theatres. In truth, however, those three 1998 movies were released during the heyday of the Lewinsky scandal and no matter how many famous faces or piquant plots producers stuffed into the films, nothing was as entertaining as the Bill, Linda and Monica triangle...
...Contender is different. This movie takes issue with the very scandal that stole the red carpet from these other movies, as well as from--more importantly--the foreign affairs and domestic concerns that were shoved out of the spotlight throughout the ordeal. The movie also has the potential to raise myriad intriguing questions. Would the tone of the "vast right-wing conspiracy" have altered, for example, had it been the case of a female executive officer engaging in adulterous behavior with a male White House intern? How have party conspiracies altered the political process? Most important, however, is how should...
...amount of time, the nation was obsessed. Because of the momentum following the impeachment trial, The Starr Report remains ranked at 7,497 on Amazon.com. Larry Flynt released his own "Flynt Report," an 84-page, advertisement-free expos of the alleged sinful sex lives of Republicans. Months after the scandal's climax, the nation tuned in for Barbara Walter's interview with Monica Lewinsky. The impeachment process, the cigar stories and the blue Gap dress were fodder for endless jokes on late night television and infinite talking head discussions on the cable networks...
...weren't for the scandal, there would be more pressure within Harvard to consider it, even if some of the powers that be wouldn't want to see him as president," Canellos says. "I think he would definitely...