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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...senatorial candidacy of its title character, a right-wing folksinger and fencing enthusiast. The film is done in the style of a British documentary, with Brian Murray playing the Alastair Cookeesque tweedy host Terry Manchester. The effect is to put the audience on the campaign trail and amidst the rabid, swarming, red-white-and-blue masses of Roberts fans. It's a tribute to idealistic caring and muckraking investigative reporting and a giant dis to Wall Street, greed and image control. Tim Robbins directs and stars...

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...senatorial candidacy of its title character, a right-wing folksinger and fencing enthusiast. The film is done in the style of a British documentary, with Brian Murray playing the Alastair Cookeesque tweedy host Terry Manchester. The effect is to put the audience on the campaign trail and amidst the rabid, swarming, red-white-and-blue masses of Roberts fans. It's a tribute to idealistic caring and muckraking investigative reporting and a giant dis to Wall Street, greed and image control. Tim Robbins directs and stars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Movies | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

Volcano Lover: A Romance, Sontag's first book in 25 years, focuses on Sir William Hamilton (Sontag calls him the Cavaliere throughout the book). Cavaliere is the British ambassador to Naples, a rabid collector of potpourri and vulcanist who married his first wife Catherine for money. After Catherine's death, the Cavaliere falls in love with Emma; through a strange twist, however, she turns around and finds love in a young British admiral...

Author: By J. ELIOT Morgan, | Title: Sontag Finds New Style for '90s | 10/8/1992 | See Source »

...film is done in the style of a British documentary, with Brian Murray playing the Alistair Cooke-esque tweedy host Terry Manchester. The effect is to put the audience on the campaign trail and amidst the rabid, swarming, red-white-and-blue masses of Roberts fans...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Tired of Political Bumblers? | 9/24/1992 | See Source »

...series Tanner '88, he sets an easily acidulous tone; Robbins is having fun poking fun. Ultimately, as if to prove paranoia is not unique to right-wingers, he blames Bob and his advisers for every political atrocity of the past decade -- and a few new ones, including framing a rabid fringe journalist (Giancarlo Esposito) who may have the goods on bad Bob. The crimes are listed not so much to push a leftish agenda as to clarify Bob's villainy for viewers who might be seduced by his style. Robbins, eager not to be misunderstood, has insisted that there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Man For the '90s | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

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