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Obama is doing it literally, running against the Clinton machine, which presents a multitude of problems. There is, first of all, the loyalty and affection that the Democratic fund-raising community has for the former President. This is truer in New York than in Hollywood; on Wall Street, especially, there are fond memories of Clintonism's fiscal discipline and global sophistication. "You hear a lot of, 'We've got to do this for Bill,'" says a prominent Democratic fund raiser. "Everyone respects Hillary, of course, although most people I talk to are hoping she'll decide...
Certainly 24, which debuted just weeks after 9/11 and returns Jan. 14, comes as close as anything has to being the Official Cultural Product of the War on Terrorism. Co-creator Joel Surnow is a rare Hollywood Republican, and John McCain has done a cameo. Dick Cheney is a big fan too, and you can understand the Administration's wanting to associate itself with Bauer's badass competence. (He nabs nuclear masterminds; we get Jose Padilla.) Most damningly to critics on the left, Bauer's means of gathering intel (grab terrorist's finger, snap, repeat) make 24 a weekly rationalization...
JUDI, HOW COME YOU DON'T DO MORE WORK IN HOLLYWOOD...
What is your plan to get the nurses free? A plan to get them freed seems a little bit like a Hollywood movie. What we have in mind is to go through the judicial procedure. Solidarity and attention from the media, the public, ngos and scientists around the world is also extremely important. From now on, it is up to Libya to show how persuasive it can be to its international partners...
Dench: No one ever asks. And I'm often in the theater. I'm never asked to make a film in Hollywood...