Word: mcmullen
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...movie looks less "mockumentary" than cinema verite. Egged on by O'Brien, a Democrat, Tuttle entered the G.O.P. primary for the Senate against businessman Jack McMullen in July. McMullen has law and business degrees from Harvard; Tuttle dropped out in the 10th grade. McMullen, a millionaire, spent $475,000, including $227,000 of his own money. Tuttle lives on Social Security and spent $200, mostly for Porta-Potti's at his nickel-a-plate "FredFest" fund raiser. McMullen ran ads and crisscrossed the state. Tuttle sat on his porch nursing his bum knee, venturing out for debates only...
...like Pat. He's a smart man, and he's done a good job." Tuttle's wife Dottie refused to vote for Fred, and wishes this foolishness would stop. "I hope they have more sense than to vote for my husband," she snaps. And Tuttle says his bid against McMullen, who has lived in Vermont only about a year, was meant to be a protest run. "Someone asked him what he would do if he won the primary, and he said run," says his daughter Deborah. "But he didn't mean for the seat. He meant the other...
...consensus is that Vermonters saw McMullen as a "flatlander," or outsider, who thought his money would make up for his recent move from Massachusetts. (The Tuttles came from Massachusetts too--in 1832). "McMullen was a walking insult," says Frank Bryan, a University of Vermont political science professor. "Who the hell does he think he is?" Tuttle kept the state in stitches as he humorously--but devastatingly--pointed out McMullen's flaws. In one debate Tuttle asked McMullen to pronounce the name of a Vermont town, Calais. McMullen fumbled. (It may be cah-lay in France...
Noticeably absent from McLachlan's set was "I Will Remember You," the hit theme from the movie The Brother's McMullen. But fans did not seem to mind, probably because McLachlan created a great repoire between them and herself, often stopping to talk and joke with the audience. At one point, two love-struck male fans shouted out "We love you Sarah!" during a quiet moment in her performance. McLachlan looked up from her grand piano and responded "Aww! Thank you guys so much...
...something more on its mind than extending the privileges of upper-class sexual idiocy to people of--or newly emerged from--the contemporary American working class. For all the wildness of his plotting, Burns, expanding the territory he opened up in The Brothers McMullen, is at heart a realist of an interesting kind--cool, nonjudgmental, even genial. He is also a confident subversive, gnawing away at the notion, currently so popular in political circles, that average Americans, holding to traditional values, bulwark us against the virus of postmodern moral ambiguity. What he's saying in this marvelously dry, sly movie...