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...Clinton adviser Mandy Grunwald noted that if the President hadn't given George the "opportunity of a lifetime," George might still be a Capitol Hill aide, not a "multimillion-dollar book writer and commentator" (inside the White House make that "commentraitor"). And James Carville says Washington has become The Truman Show, broadcasting Clinton's private life in something approaching real time...
...Harris, The Truman Show: I don'tunderstand. I loved The Truman Show, butJim Carrey made the movie everything it was--sothey nominate Harris and not Carrey? Harris getsnominated for wearing a beret and boomingall-to-metaphorical lines without the leastinflection?Geoffrey Rush, Shakespeare in Love. Ireally don't understand. Why Rush and notMurray in Rushmore: Rush's bumbling fool inthe movie was amusing, and he got to show offrotted teeth but no stretch here. AfterShine, this seemed like improve on a dayoff...
Peter Weir, The Truman Show. Peter is in trouble for a few reasons. First, Truman was released months before any of the other nominees. The film has been out of the public eye for too long, and the lack of current hype will take its toll. Second: since the film was Jim Carrey's break-through dramatic role, viewers remember this cautionary tale as an actor's triumph, not that of a director. Third, and most damning: Weir did a good job directing Truman, but perhaps he was too good for his own good (say that five times fast...
...went out to the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, MO., last week for the opening of an exhibition called "TIME and the Presidency," which will tour the U.S. over the next two years. It features great photos and TIME covers of Presidents from Franklin Roosevelt to Bill Clinton, along with commentary by our longtime columnist Hugh Sidey...
Look! There's F.D.R. swimming, Truman on a morning walk and Kennedy chatting with coal miners. The classic pictures and colorful Sidey anecdotes help personalize the Presidents and make history seem so human, which has always been one of our goals at TIME. In America, more than in any other nation, we like to think of our leaders not as mysterious monarchs but as regular neighbors. Walk a few blocks to the old Truman home, and there's his fedora hanging on a rack in the hall where he left it after his last stroll...