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Maybe the DNC should cut Alex Castellanos a nice fat check. After all, the GOP adman has produced a TV spot that's eliciting torrents of high-level sweat over at RNC headquarters (and, no doubt, torrents of jokes for Jay Leno and David Letterman...
...wonder if it's the best idea for this particular campaign to show its candidate in a form where he remains 100 percent motionless. Still, for all the corny touches - particularly the little faux-handwritten family-scrapbook captions - visually, the device brought a human dimension to the man that DNC-produced film footage never could have. Simply put, it told you somebody cared enough about the man to take a picture of him without being paid...
...Machine concert outside the Staples Center ("Does that qualify as a mosh pit?" asked Fox's Brit Hume) and trolling for celebrities to fill the space between Michael Beschloss segments. All but PBS, which wouldn't air Melissa Etheridge singing "America the Beautiful" but did air a slick DNC video about a welfare mother who opened her own business - that, apparently, does not count as a packaged showbiz event...
...Unfortunately, Smith doesn't have the power to shorten the convention (he answers to the DNC and the Gore campaign), but he's doing what he can to put some life in the party. Last week TIME shadowed Smith as he prepared for the Democrats' arrival: On Monday, Aug. 7, seated before more than three dozen party officials, production coordinators and crew members, Smith runs through the convention day by day. "We may have Whoopi doing the Pledge of Allegiance on Wednesday night," he says, and he explains the breakdown of TV coverage. The convention will build each day toward...
...DNC is bursting with money this year, and they're looking for contenders. I can win this race," Cranley declared optimistically...