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...tempers high, a potent nonfiction genre is emerging: the agit-doc, dealing with high-octane political issues, often in a confrontational tone. Trailing Moore's box-office clout, agit-docs are surging into the mainstream. One of them, The Hunting of the President, co-directed by Clinton pal Harry Thomason, was originally to go to 30 theaters; now its distributor has revved that number to 125 and has put the film's trailer on many screens showing Fahrenheit 9/11...
...night before, Clinton had made a remarkable appearance onstage at New York University after the screening of his friend Harry Thomason's new documentary, The Hunting of the President--an unabashedly partisan account of the Whitewater prosecution (or "persecution," as Clinton called it, perhaps not inadvertently). "Starr was the instrument of a grand design," the President said, launching a 30-minute disquisition into the historical roots of the rabid partisanship that marked his time in office. "He did what he was hired to do ... Hillary was hooted and derided for calling it a vast right-wing conspiracy. I joked with...
...Thomason said they had to give some thought to using history as a backbone for a fictional story. “Basically, you have to make decisions about what you feel comfortable fictionalizing and to what extent you feel indebted to the truth,” he said. “Especially in a book like this where we were bending history to create really captivating story, and the question you have to constantly have to ask yourself is if you are bending history...
...Thomason does not discourage using history as the basis for stories though. “There are already a ton of interesting stories that exist that you can mine for drama,” he said. An author’s note gives specific details of historical accuracy, but in general Thomason said they kept as truthful to the Italian Renaissance as possible...
Fans of The Rule of Four will be happy to learn that the pair are already well into their second novel. Although the characters are ne w, Thomason said it will fall in the same genre. “We found a lot of exciting opportunities in writing a book that mixed the present with the past, so that’s a direction we’re definitely planning to head...