Word: robertses
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TITLE: BOB ROBERTS
Tim Robbins answers that question with a song. As writer, director and star of the hilarious mock-documentary Bob Roberts, Robbins argues that '90s anomie is the flip side of '60s idealism -- the perky music, so to speak, without the hammer-of-justice lyrics. The perfect candidate for this era...
It was surely made for Bob Roberts, a right-wing minstrel running for the Senate against a liberal incumbent named Brickley Paiste (and played by Gore Vidal, whose 1960 drama, The Best Man, addressed similar campaign compromises). With the help of a Mephistophelian campaign boss (Alan Rickman) and a mostly...
Nearly 30 years ago, Vidal argued that an American tyrant would achieve power not by ranting his hatred a la Hitler but by crooning a demagogic lullaby. For some, Ronald Reagan, who could say mean things without sounding mean -- sometimes without sounding as if he meant them or knew what...
But what happens when the butt of your satire co-opts your plot line? The Republican Convention could have been dreamed up by Oral Roberts -- or Bob. Folksy singers abounded in Houston, supporting party ideology with hymns to red blood, white bread and blue-tinted hair. There was country star...