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Watching, or rather listening to, the tape-recorded arguments between the Bush and Gore lawyers before the Supreme Court this morning - an unprecedented airing of same-day audio - you had to wonder whether "The West Wing" creator Aaron Sorkin didn't pick the wrong branch of government to write about. We already see plenty of the world of White House staffers, after all, every time an insider quits and writes an overremunerated memoir. But the Court, now there's an intriguing world. The sex-scandal-haunted black conservative! The mysterious, John Cage-like nebbish who infuriates his Republican sponsors...
...that's exactly why people need to see this. In every other branch of government - and every other corner of cable news - it is all too screechily easy to tell exactly which side everyone is on. If nothing else, it's good to see one branch of government where some people are actually willing to be vigorous devil's advocates rather than one-note partisan terriers...
...they know that he's the one who can win. They see him as having left the party in a political and organizational mess, and now, just as they're bringing down Barak's government, he steps back in to claim the spoils. Many Likud members of parliament and branch organizers feel that way. But they also feel that they're unlikely to get back into power with Sharon in charge. With Bibi, they believe, it's a done deal - which, of course, it isn't. There's a long time between now and an election in which Israelis...
...week of trying to cover what could be the next summer White House--close to the Days Inn in Waco, but 100 dusty miles from the Four Seasons in Austin and expense-account restaurants, with the closest hot spots being the Dr Pepper Museum and the remains of the Branch Davidian compound. Gore, whose campaign press corps is now home, fared better despite resorting, for his short, pedantic statement, to a TelePrompTer in his own house. Does he use it for after-dinner toasts...
...falling into barroom brawls and inappropriate relationships. His sister Sammy (Laura Linney) is ostensibly his opposite. She's a single mom who has stayed in their upstate New York hometown, where she raises her son by a rigid book and works faithfully as the loan officer in a bank branch. You Can Count on Me simply narrates what happens when the goofus comes home to sponge some money from the doofus and incidentally, almost accidentally, stirs an emotional frenzy. It is also, just possibly, the best American movie of this fast-dwindling year...