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...Wag the Dog is a wonderfully biting satire of the prevailing attitude which links show business to American politics. Two weeks before he is up for re-election, the president is accused of making advances on a Girl Scout; mysterious political consultant Conrad Brean (Robert De Niro) is called to resolve the catastrophe. Everyone gets brutally skewered in this film: politicians, filmmakers, actors, reporters and the credulous masses. The load eventually proves to be too much for the film to carry, but the film has to be admired for its sheer effort. Wag the Dog remains vastly entertaining even during...
...licensing. Even Ted Kennedy and Strom Thurmond got in on the act. But they found themselves outpaced by Barksdale, a great showman. "Gentlemen, that's a monopoly," said the Netscape chief after asking for a show of hands from audience members with Windows 95. "We're letting the tail wag the dog here," he added...
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...