Word: clef
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Primary Colors was supposed to be the Bill Clinton movie a clef of 1998, but the recently released Bille August film of Victor Hugo's 1862 epic Les Miserables, with Liam Neeson and Geoffrey Rush, may better parallel the President's saga...
...asked me to come to Washington. He said, 'You can live on the Hill. I can find you a job.'" Clinton offered a sharply different account in his deposition, denying there was a relationship and saying that at the reunion Browning threatened to publish a "fantasy" roman a clef about Clinton, simply because she needed the money...
Imagine the best O.J. conversation you've ever had--and since you've probably had several thousand of them, this is saying something--and you'll have an idea what it's like talking to Dunne. The author of best-selling romans a clef about murder like The Two Mrs. Grenvilles and An Inconvenient Woman, Dunne became renowned for his coverage of the Claus von Bulow, William Kennedy Smith and Menendez brothers trials. He sat in the Simpson courtroom from the first day to the last, and each month produced a savvy, pungent report for Vanity Fair. Appearing endlessly...
...Bill Clinton felt like vetoing his on-screen portrayal in this summer's Contact, wait until he gets a peek at next year's Primary Colors. The $65 millionish feature is based on the best-selling roman a clef that portrays an ambitious Governor named Jack Stanton whose presidential campaign is rocked by bimbo eruptions and accusations of draft dodging. The movie, which director Mike Nichols finished shooting last week, stars John Travolta as Stanton, Emma Thompson as his strong-willed wife Susan and Billy Bob Thornton as a James Carville-type campaign manager...
Just, a Washington journalist in the early '60s, writes from experience. But there is no master clef to this roman. Axel reads like a composite rather than a copy. He has spent more than half his years in chronic pain caused by wounds suffered during World War II. His marriage to Sylvia, a wellborn New Yorker and poet, was a mismatch. "Government's the opiate of the patrician masses," she tells him shortly before walking out. Her parting shot is that Axel, former oss operative and friend of Presidents, has "too many secrets, not enough mystery...