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Bill Clinton woos voters with the ardor of Pepe Le Pew. Bob Dole's cranky bombast suggests a gaunter Foghorn Leghorn. And Ross Perot? Yosemite Sam. Electoral politicking can get so cartoonish that the making of political-cartoon movies might seem redundant. But Cartoongate (Kino International Video), an hour-long melange of short film parodies compiled by animator Greg Ford, proves that the men who want your vote have long been a source for ripe, mean...
Gore Vidal once said there's only one political party in America, "the Real Estate Party." But this year, besides Clinton, Dole and Perot, there are four party candidates for President who will appear on ballots in most states. In the interest of voter education (and amusement), we preview the other candidates and their platforms...
Producers whose movies have been denounced as degenerate by Bob Dole move freely about, often on their way to Democratic fund raisers. So do publishers who increased their bids on Dick Morris' book after the Star recorded his unfortunate foot fault. So do newspaper barons whose tabloids milked the Morris case for thousands of headlines, none of which, I feel compelled to point out, matched the one a London tabloid used several years ago to announce the sacking of a British Cabinet minister who, it was revealed, had similar sexual tastes...
Klein came to mind more recently when Bob Dole denounced Trainspotting as one of the most contemptible movies, made by people who have no known connection to the Republican Party. The heroin addicts Trainspotting deals with look almost as depraved as the models in a 12-page ad Calvin Klein ran in the September issue of Vanity Fair...
...After Dole criticized Trainspotting, it was pointed out that actually the movie shows some distinctly unromantic aspects of heroin addiction. Advertisements, on the other hand, are supposed to display people whose lives you'd like to emulate by buying the product. That is why those cigarette billboards show vibrant young people who have shiny white teeth and lungs that presumably bear no resemblance at all to a rusted-out tailpipe...