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...outside to sit on the porch steps and have a cigarette and a glass of Tang. She won't smoke in front of him, but this is what counts as her down time, and it's a soft, cool, edge-of-autumn night full of wishing stars. The 1986 Ford Country Squire station wagon, gray-green with faux wood paneling, sits in the driveway. She bought it when she was pregnant. Some people build bookcases or drop $250 on a souped-up stroller. But this is the way a car girl nests. "I don't care what I drive...
This resort to cliche--the director also owes a debt to Francis Ford Coppola, whose Godfather technique of crosscutting between scenes of intense violence and blissful ordinariness he borrows--is matched by a taste for dubious historical speculation. Seeking to disarm critics on that score, Jordan has owned up to the usual minor sins of historical fiction: conflating characters, telescoping events, making reasonable guesses about unknown motives. But it would seem he has gone further than that...
...Gerald Ford, the first ever incumbent President to debate his opponent, meets challenger Jimmy Carter...
...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...
...formats range from traditional work (Popeye for President, 1956) to mixes of live action and animation. Ford includes his own nicely rancid vaudeville about Richard Nixon to the tune of No Substitute, the hilariously solemn Nixon-Lodge campaign song for 1960. Disney artists contributed to a crude, perky 1952 TV commercial for Eisenhower ("I like Ike, you like Ike, everybody likes Ike/ Let Ad-l-ai go the other way,/ We'll take Ike to Washington...