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...month an investigative reporter pretended to be the aide of a "sheik" eager to pay a p.r. firm $340,000 to bring fame to his (fictional) new hotel in Dubai and invited Sophie's business partner Murray Harkin to some meetings. Harkin chatted about liking "the odd line of coke" and offered to set up dinner parties with very attractive male friends (he is gay). At the third meeting, Sophie came to clinch the deal...
...They will take their cues from military dynamos such as Canada, further along than we no doubt on the celestial arch of Progress, and they will dutifully sit in on seminars about the food and drink of the society-to-be-saved. (Seminars with neat little napkins, Diet Coke, and those fun ice cubes with the holes in the middle...
Turning elsewhere, we can watch one of the most embarrassing ex-presidencies ever unfold before our eyes. Bill cannot get a Diet Coke without screwing up, and Hillary can’t watch him do it without somehow aiding and abetting and then trying to make up for it with such phoniness that only Barney Frank is fooled. Her latest endeavor was to support a bill that sets limits on lobbying for presidential pardon. This is absurdity in such a pure state that nobody except the New York Post has even bothered to touch it, instead choosing to marvel...
...about as bright as a manatee, stole the election... It's atrocious to me how he did it. I believe he was a coke dealer just a few years ago...The man has all the charisma of an egg-timer and doesn't come off as a leader of the Free World," Chase said...
With this dear-daddy subplot, the film finally tries to persuade you that George is a man worth feeling sorry for. O.K., so his father loved him, his mom didn't. He loved his kid, she deserted him. What's this got to do with the price of coke? In truth, all George deserves is the grudging respect one might give to any captain of industry who, with guts and a shrewd sense of an expanding market, made a bundle selling people something they didn't need. That's not quite enough for a wannabe-great movie...