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...thumbs down, it's over," she said. For the first four months, the sales reports were "flat, flat, flat, flat." Then, magically, they took off; the Palm was a hit. Hollywood moguls started using it. Pilots began showing up on television (Murphy Brown) and in the movies (recent sighting: Wag the Dog). Within 18 months, more than a million were shipped, a faster launch than the first cellular phones and pagers enjoyed...
...That's the kind of presidential timber we've been getting in the movies lately. Men apt to cut a few moral corners, and then a few more, until all the right angles are as smooth as they are. Men with the scruples of the off-screen President in Wag the Dog, who is caught in a scandal with an underage girl. Or of President Gene Hackman in Absolute Power, who has sex so rough with the wife of a major contributor that she wounds him with a letter opener. That leads his Secret Service agents to burst into...
...widower, which means his bumpy courtship of lobbyist Annette Bening is within the rules. All the same, by letting us follow the happy couple into the First Bedroom, even that White House-friendly movie crossed another threshold. On the other side of that threshold were movies like Wag the Dog. And still to come, if it ever gets produced, is Sacred Cows, with a script by the unblushing Joe Eszterhas, writer of Basic Instinct and Showgirls, about a President caught in sexual congress with...
John F. Kennedy Jr. expects his political magazine George "will turn a profit in 1999 -- a year ahead of estimates," reports the New York Post. Speaking to the paper, the publisher cited the movies "Wag the Dog" and "Primary Colors" as having heightened the public's awareness of how cool the Washington arena can be. "All of a sudden," Kennedy told the Post, "the connection between politics and pop culture became vivid...
...bizarre coincidence of the breaking of the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal and the crisis in Iraq as the movie Wag the Dog opened seemed to be the epitome of life imitating art. Yet most of us misread the imitation. The real Wag the Dog phenomenon in the Clinton scandal is not about using Saddam to distract from Monica. Rather, it is about using the increased attention on the President to distract from the crisis facing the Democratic Party. The problem facing the Democrats is not Clinton's extracurricular activities. It's the sad truth that their party just doesn...