Word: wagging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, as he was in the delicious Wag the Dog, the director is looking for a new venue in which to display the thing he loves best--rough, funny dialogue that reveals the morally equivocal motives of highly dubious dreamers. And for a few minutes at the beginning of Sphere, which is about the exploration of a spacecraft that has been discovered resting on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, you think he may be on to something...
...when lured into an idealistic run for the presidency, makes a stop at the vipers' nest. Along the way, he tracks down his soul, ditches chippie Angela Lansbury and falls back in love with wife Kate, who shimmers here with inside-and-out loveliness. Yes, this one outwags "Wag the Dog" for currency, excepting of course the Capra ending -- but we don't expect to see Mr. Smith turn up on C-SPAN either...
...Clinton may of course survive. (I thought that by now O.J. Simpson would be doing life without parole.) We live in an age when almost nothing is too squalid to be transcended. What Clinton needs now is a producer like the one played by Dustin Hoffman in the movie Wag the Dog, a man who, when confronted with a hideously impossible public relations problem like the one facing Clinton, announces bouncily, "This is NOTHING...
...WAG THE CLINTON...
Much has been made of the similarities between the movie Wag the Dog (one of the stars: Robert De Niro, above, left) and the brouhaha in Washington (one of the stars: Vernon Jordan, above, right). But a comparison reveals that Tinseltown fantasy is far tamer than inside-the-Beltway reality...