Word: robertses
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For the first time in nearly six months, he recently left Ravello. Paramount persuaded him to go to Hollywood for a press jamboree to promote Tim Robbins' shrewd, bumptious political film Bob Roberts. Vidal co-stars as an aging liberal Senator, and he does it with authority and panache. His...
There are Western economists who think such a development might not be all bad. Says Paul Craig Roberts, a political economist at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies: "I meet these people all the time. Some of them are rather entrepreneurial" and are beginning to act more...
Celebrity novelist Gore Vidal, as incumbent Democratic Pennsylvania Senator Brickley Paistle, is an effective, though more serious, counterpoint to Roberts. In a televised debate, Paiste defends child care, health care, "Sacrifice," while Roberts urges a tax cut and decries "wasteful social programs."
The wildly successful Roberts campaign encounters a few obstacles along the way, the most successful of whom is Bugs Raplin (Giancarlo Esposito), a reporter for Troubled Times. Raplin uncovers a scandal linking Roberts, drugs, Iran-Contra and the HUD fiasco. The effect is to give this campaign comedy the elements...
If the reality of this campaign season is getting you down, turn off the nightly news and go see Bob Roberts. You'll laugh, and you'll be reminded what democracy is all about.