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...Instead, the purpose was to weld a humanoid faceplate onto the gleaming titanium circuitry of Al Gore. Holding the blowtorch was wife Tipper, who not only introduced her husband but narrated and shot many of the still pictures used in the movie. It was a savvy move: Even to someone who grew up listening to her PMRC campaign being reviled by Ice-T and Mojo Nixon, Tipper turns out to be a moralist who's tough to hate, every bit as easygoing and approachable as her husband is stereotypically stiff. ("Al and Tipper: She's human enough for both...
...basing the film on the Gore family photo album - Al dressed up as Frankenstein for Halloween, Tipper hanging up laundry as a military housewife - underscored one of the most oddly homey images of the campaign so far: her geeky, endearing habit of snapping pictures from the stage at every campaign event; she even recorded the leering mug of Larry King on CNN Wednesday. Note to the Gore staff, however: You might want to reconsider the symbolism of the candidate's wife publicly trying to capture their moment on the national stage while it lasts...
...have recanted his earlier suggestion that he and Tipper were the inspiration for Erich Segal's "Love Story," but a love story was exactly we got tonight: the first-person story of a wife obviously smitten with her husband, starting with their first meeting, a night out where they threw over their respective dates to hook up with each other. (Here is the difference between Al Gore and Bill Clinton: Al dumps his young lady for some other hottie and his campaign goes out of its way to spread the story, to humanize him.) Tipper's job tonight: to pledge...
...Unfortunately, somebody didn't take as much care with the cliché-ridden copy written up for Tipper. (Many of whose lines, embarrassingly, Al ended up repeating almost verbatim in his speech afterward.) "It was the late '60s, an exciting time, a time of change," she was forced to say. And "But soon Al faced the most important decision of his young life: Vietnam." It sounded like "Al Gore: Behind the Music...
...Nobody has said it in L.A. this week, but someday some politician will build a campaign around this: that the Joe Liebermans, Tipper Gores and Bill Bennetts of the world, who want to clean up popular culture - and you can't sanitize it without sapping its vitality - are advocating the post-Cold War equivalent of melting down our tanks. MTV! Love it or leave...