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...NCAA Regional time at the Weaver Track & Field Stadium...
...written one day after McCain had been flown on a Paxson jet to a fund raiser on a yacht in West Palm Beach, Fla., and just weeks before Paxson's owner was scheduled to hold a fund raiser for McCain. The appearance problem was so severe that John Weaver, McCain's political adviser at the time, asked one of Alcalde's lobbyists on the Paxson account to keep a distance from the campaign...
...movie begins in a TV-news remote trailer in Salamanca, Spain, where the hassled, blinkered executive producer (Sigourney Weaver) is trying to steer live coverage of a peace summit toward bland bromides and away from the anti-U.S. demonstrations on the periphery of the event. Once the assassins' shots hit their human target and a large bomb disperses the crowd, the movie flashes back 23 mins. and starts all over again, in be-kind-rewind fashion, and we get the perspectives of President Ashton (William Hurt), two of his Secret Service bodyguards (Dennis Quaid and Matthew Fox), an American...
...borrowed some of the jittery camerabatics that Greengrass applied as director to of United 93and the last two episodes of the Jason Bourne saga. You can easily spot Travis's attempt at docudrama bona fides from the gritty cinematography. All the 50-plus mid-level stars - Quaid, Hurt, Weaver, Bruce McGill - are shot (I mean photographed) so unflatteringly that they look weary, lined, older than John McCain on one of his recent bad days...
...They rush off to the Passaic library to shoot the ectoplasm scenes, crack a couple of eggs for the special effects and borrow a young woman from the local dry cleaner's (Melonie Diaz) for the Sigourney Weaver role. (Later, the real Weaver shows up too, but not as herself.) The ruse is successful, Miss Falewicz likes their homemade version of Ghostbusters; and soon everyone in town is clamoring for the guys' rickety remakes of favorite movies, including The Lion King, Rush Hour 2, RoboCop, Boyz N The Hood, Driving Miss Daisy (with Black in the Jessica Tandy role), King...