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...collected what seems like every visual scrap from the period: photographs, paintings, newspaper clippings, as well as present-day footage of key battle sites. To them he has wedded excerpts from contemporary diaries, letters and speeches, read by people as diverse as Jason Robards, Jody Powell and George Plimpton. A spare but evocative narration by David McCullough is supplemented by commentary from historian Shelby Foote and others. The result is not just fine history but a pensive epic about the nation's great catastrophe...
...WHICH GEORGE DO YOU WISH TO SPEAK? Author, gadfly and bon vivant George Plimpton found his recent weekend with George Bush at Camp David strenuous. Among the activities: bowling, tiddlywinks, horseshoes (a presidential triumph), skeet shooting and wally ball (a version of volleyball played on a handball court). Plimpton was surprised that there were no interruptions or calls all weekend -- until their tennis game. "He threw the ball up to serve and the phone rang -- a very odd thing to hear in a forest." The Commander in Chief strode over, picked it up, listened for a moment, and looked...
Walking through the gathering dusk, he marveled at the world that had plagued him for the preceding twelve hours. Then he suddenly brightened. "Well," he said, "I think I'll call up George Plimpton and ask him down to play some horseshoes...
...finally, besides being a tearjerker, Running on Empty is a teen romance film, centering on Danny's falling in love with a high school classmate, Lorna (Martha Plimpton). Plimpton is down to earth and sarcastic in her supporting role. She gets some of the movie's best lines and plays them with a kind of sassy offhandedness. She's great fun to watch, but she's out of sync with the hyper-earnestness of everyone around her, especially Phoenix...
Sidney Lumet has been here before, directing the 1983 Daniel, a fictionalized look at the Rosenberg spy family. And Phoenix has already played, in The Mosquito Coast, a teenager whose idealistic dad kept his family on the run; Plimpton offered pert consolation in that film too. Those films foundered on their ambitions; this time the pieces fall together. The actors are an ensemble who know each other like, well, family. Hirsch is righteous and funny without ever being Alan Alda; Lahti etches another of her nifty modern heroines; Phoenix shows the strength and range that could make him a must...