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...sort of week that drives serious politicians crazy. Both Al Gore and Hillary Clinton had important things to say about global warming and energy independence-and the chatterati spent most of their time ignoring the messages and gossiping about the messengers. The debut of Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, served as the excuse for a typhoon of speculation about whether he was running for President in 2008. Senator Clinton's sturdy bran muffin of a speech about the environment-it read like a term paper but was filled with smart detail and inconvenient truthfulness-was almost totally ignored because...
...Actually, the best reason for Obama to run is precisely that he is young and everybody else seems so old. Gore has been the rarest of public servants-right on almost everything, years in advance. He is one of a very few prominent Democrats who were right about both Gulf Wars: in favor of the first, which was conducted with the approval of the United Nations; against the second, which wasn't. Hillary Clinton hasn't always been right-she picked the wrong universal health-care plan in 1994, and she voted for Gulf...
...many echoes in Cannes movies of roiling events in the world beyond the screen. Yet Cannes '06 was fairly harangue-free; there was no Michael Moore to spike the punch bowl with one of his incendiary documentaries. The most notable nonfiction political film was An Inconvenient Truth, starring Al Gore, the former U.S. Vice President and near-President. Essentially a slide show on the looming disaster of climate change, the movie is like its front man: both committed and muted, hoping to enlighten as much as arouse. And since the film was shown out of competition, it could not capture...
...Gore used to joke that it was easy to pick him out in a roomful of Secret Service agents: He was the stiff one. So he was the first to say how surreal it was to find himself the toast of Cannes last week. Over two days at the celebrated film festival, the former Vice President conducted what he figures were 48 interviews, many of them roundtable sessions, to accommodate the kind of interest that entertainment reporters usually bestow on people named Halle and Beyoncé. And then there was that encounter with Hugh Jackman, the Australian heartthrob whose expected summer...
...worked at the Pentagon while Laura was in the White House. She was always at Gore's side, carrying the briefcase with the nuclear-launch codes. "Only the very best are entrusted with the so-called nuclear football," says Gore. "She has a total dedication to excellence in everything she does." It was Laura's first assignment that involved working with other women, and it taught her something about herself. "I had got used to dealing with men all the time, and it made me very direct and even abrupt," she admits. "I found that I can be just...