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...mentioned that Gore is a fighter for working families? The convention did, endlessly, because Gore wants to make a virtue out of his aggression. It worked, as the Regular Guy offensive generally did when it highlighted things about him that are already familiar. The biographical film narrated by Tipper Gore was effective because it showed Gore as a loving family man, and he is that. Best of all, it was a chance to show off photos of Al and Tipper as young marrieds in the 1970s--a scruffy hunk and his blond babe. As a 30-year-old woman sitting...
...Gore favorite. (Bush's most recent favorite is Forrest Gump.) After using a handheld camera to shoot the Gores at their Tennessee farm and a North Carolina beach house, Jonze came up with a deftly cut montage of Gore kicking back and having fun. He makes Tipper blush by showing off the nude self-portrait she painted when pregnant with Karenna. He offers the obligatory deadpan take on his own stiffness (Tipper going barefoot "completely messes up my image") and sings a song from 1969 in praise of her ("I don't have to speak, she defends me"). But mostly...
...TIPPER GORE '80s music scold; now Joe's the prude. H'wood, America digs you. And that dance, that kiss...
...though, we return to the theme "Al Gore: Human." The candidate walks down a lane buttressed by Tipper, his kids and not one but two dogs, as the narrator intones one of the most ridiculous tag lines in the history of presidential politics. "Al Gore. Married 30 years. Father of four. Fighting for us." Al Gore. He only sleeps with his wife. He's sired babies. So why not give him the nuclear codes...
...Gail Collins sums up the season - "we now understand that George W. Bush likes nothing better than to hang around with members of minority groups, that Al Gore likes nothing better than to hang around with Tipper, and that everybody in the Reform Party is crazy" - and takes your questions (really hers). Very original use of "Survivor" as comic conceit...