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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...
...Lewinsky, the film comments on the scandal in ways that are downright eerie. Just as the public doesn't know what actually happened between Clinton and Monica--or Clinton and Gennifer Flowers, for that matter--so the movie refuses to spell out what did or didn't happen between Stanton and the women he is accused of bedding. Since unresolved questions and muddied waters are hallmarks of the Clinton presidency, glossing the indiscretions and lingering over the cover-up feels just right. The film moves from Stanton's bimbo containment and opposition-research operations (anticipating the defense lawyers and gumshoes...
...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...
...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...