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...CP hates to step out of his idiom, but he likes to help any way he can. We learn from Mike McCurry that the Prez has a movie planned for Saturday night. We bet we know what it is. Wag the Dog, as you may have heard, is practically showing on the news these days. The pithier and very funny version, however, is at theaters now, and it may well be affecting our foreign policy at this sensitive juncture...
...Clinton's innocent, CP takes all this back...
...rewinds the week that was, CP takes a stab at profundity and likens it to Generation X: it lacked a defining moment. But behind each member of this week's event plurality lurks quite a good history. Here's a cinema trifecta of great movies that will make you smarter to boot. Watch and learn, and on Monday pretend you read it all in the Wall Street Journal...
...CP alerts you to a bona fide Television Event on Friday night, 8:00 EST. Business channel CNBC -- home of the streaming ticker, during-the-break Dow updates, and Maria "The Money Honey" Bartiromo -- wades into movie waters with the excellent HBO-produced Barbarians at the Gate (1993). With recent revelations about the birth of Joe Camel, the broadcast of this savvy comedy of business manners, about the takeover of RJR Nabisco, is fortuitously timed. You get Jim Garner and Jonathan Pryce (not to mention Fred Thompson). You laugh. You learn a little something. Sure, you can rent...
...John Glenn and his search for the ultimate wrinkle cure, CP wishes a safe return to a solid American. But it's a bit like a Foreman fight; you'd rather see him in his prime. So grab (as if CP had to tell you this one) The Right Stuff (1983). This way, you get Ed Harris in John Glenn's prime; he's a better actor. The cast is stacked (down to Jeff Goldblum and Harry Shearer in small parts), the film is luxuriantly long, and darn it if it don't make you want to finally learn...