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...discuss Tiananmen Square and Tibet and human rights; he wanted to do it live on Chinese television. Then President Clinton's Monday address to Beijing University students -- and their feisty response at question time -- was also broadcast live to a nation unused to viewing any unscripted politics. "Saturday's candid exchange on camera could help Clinton silence critics in Washington who opposed his China visit," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "And that could only help China...
...found her to be warm, thoughtful, straightforward, less than candid but always tactful, with a fine analytical mind with terrific retention of knowledge," Solnit says. "She was always gracious...
...Well, the intellectual crosshairs have just dropped again. Simon & Schuster announced Wednesday that it will be publishing "Dear Socks, Dear Buddy," a selection of letters from children addressed to the First Pets, compiled by the First Lady herself. There will be 50 or 60 candid photos of Socks and Buddy at the White House with the First Family, plus an introduction by Hillary discussing the importance of children's writing, with advice for parents. The book is due in November, and all proceeds will go to the National Park Foundation (and not the President's legal fund...
...since the day Truman was born. Everyone else in town, including Meryl (Laura Linney) and Marlon (Noah Emmerich), is an actor, improvising from a loose scenario devised by the project's creator, Christof (Ed Harris). The Truman Show, as the program is called, is TV's most elaborate prank: Candid Camera on an epochal scale and at a muted pitch. Christof has created the largest man-made structure in history (the huge domed studio that is Seahaven), with a working town, a roiling sea and hundreds of extras, simply to convince one person that his life is real. In this...
Further evidence of Kopple's sagacity appears in the dialogues she has chosen to include in her film. Any movie ultimately rides on what is or is not cut, and Kopple and editor Lawrence Silk have chosen impressively candid, crystalline moments through which Allen and his companions represent themselves. His assertion that "I just don't want to be where I am at any given moment" speaks as informatively about his personal-life problems as it does about his approach to touring...