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Brother Dirk Ziff, a musician who played guitar in Carly Simon's band and is active in the fund, also happened to be one of the largest--if not the largest--single contributors to the Democratic Party and President Clinton's re-election campaign in 1996. Ziff, one of those invited to sleep over in the White House, gave $410,000 to the Democrats...
...Simon (Kenneth Branagh) is a man in a rumpled corduroy jacket with his nose pressed eagerly against the double-glazed windows of fame. A failed novelist, he writes celebrity profiles for magazines and subsists emotionally on such crusts--a bit of gossip, a moment of false intimacy--as the famous discard as they pass...
...Robin Simon (Judy Davis) is Lee's estranged wife, a former teacher of Chaucer and a quivering mass of neuroses, willing to try anything--religious retreats, plastic surgery--to get her postdivorce life back together...
...whys and wherefores of computers and offered an alternative to a real life that was less than orderly. When his parents went through a divorce after a move to New York City, Mattel hand-held games like football and car racing and the popular memory-testing game "Simon" were outlets that let Bennahum "hide from the experience of seeing once-powerful adults falter." In his high school computer lab he explains how users there escaped to a virtual world free from, among other things, divorces, remarriages, and troubled siblings...
Richard Trank, producer and director of media projects at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, introduced the film...