Word: stantons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Travolta's Jack Stanton may be comic hyperbole, but the real Clinton at his best is just as overstated--a sprawling, irreducible character who belongs not in the cramped precincts of American politics but in the wide-open fields of American fiction, which is where Klein had the good sense to put him. But though Klein left enough wiggle room for a reader to create a different character in the mind's eye, the movie allows nothing of the kind. From the very first scene, that's him up there, and it's a shock--the first of many, because...
...weekly newsmagazine, TIME should set an example. When the facts and truth come forward, will they be on your cover also? HELEN STANTON Conway...
Frederick Schauer, the academic dean of the Kennedy School and Stanton professor of the First Amendment, provided his views by describing the current legal environment for tabloid journalism...
...Bill Clinton felt like vetoing his on-screen portrayal in this summer's Contact, wait until he gets a peek at next year's Primary Colors. The $65 millionish feature is based on the best-selling roman a clef that portrays an ambitious Governor named Jack Stanton whose presidential campaign is rocked by bimbo eruptions and accusations of draft dodging. The movie, which director Mike Nichols finished shooting last week, stars John Travolta as Stanton, Emma Thompson as his strong-willed wife Susan and Billy Bob Thornton as a James Carville-type campaign manager...
...down the more controversial aspects of the novel. "We haven't changed any central events of the story in any way," says Nichols. "But there are mysterious things being written about how we've handled things. I've read reports that we've taken the lesbian past of Mrs. Stanton out of the story. Well, I've read the book five times, and we didn't take it out--it's simply not there." Hmmm. Has Kenneth Starr looked into this...