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...long way toward meeting that standard. Ironically, former Clinton adviser DICK MORRIS, whose descriptions of Clinton's helping to craft the ads got the President in hot water to begin with, could be the Democrats' best witness. According to Morris, Democratic National Committee general counsel Joe Sandler "changed every script. He put quotas on the number of seconds Clinton could appear. When Bob Dole left the Senate, we could no longer use his name." Sandler's advice, Morris told TIME, "was always followed." A senior Justice official says Reno's decision will depend in part on what the Federal Election...
...Higginbotham]is organized, she's a fabulous historian, and she has a very rich syllabus," she said. "It's a very structured course. I'm just following her script...
...some as Italy's Robin Williams, though this comparison hardly seems adequate. The best way to describe Benigni is as a mime who speaks--his broadly funny body and facial movements complement a mellifluous, mile-a-minute verbal style, and, in the case of Life is Beautiful, a script that is wise, sympathetic and very often hysterically funny. Benigni knew he was taking risks in making the film, but he "was obsessed, in love with this idea," he says. "I was scared, but you're always scared when you're in love...
...script's most clever invention, Guido protects his son from the reality of their situation by turning the war into a game. In one of the film's funniest sequences, Guido translates an SS guard's orders into Italian, even though he doesn't know any of the German phrases that are being angrily barked out. Instead of translating, he tells everyone that "points" will be subtracted for missing one's mommy and crying for food. According to Guido, the child who reaches 1000 points first gets a real tank, the prospect of which makes little Giosue's eyes widen...
...Brit who shoots the film with familiar pizazz (low-angle shots, portentous slo-mo, some black-and-white scenes), made his name directing TV commercials in Europe. What's not clear is the product on sale here. It seems to be brotherhood among the races. But David McKenna's script is either cunningly ambiguous or desperately muddled. In racially torn Venice Beach, Calif., the neo-Nazis are pathetic lowlifes, crying out for our contempt. And of course Nazism is a thug ideology. Yet much of the film's violence is committed by blacks; most of the victims are white...