Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Spiritual Nirvana. A beautiful wife and five-year-old son. Twenty-million-dollar paydays. Four homes, three jets, cool cars. Not bad for a guy whose movies went straight to video less than seven years ago. The only thing that would give him more power might be, well, politics. Is the world ready for Candidate Travolta? "Only doing this movie did it ever dawn on me," he says. "I don't have a natural or innate desire to run, so it would be a job someone would have to force me into." We can see it now: Super Tuesday Night...
...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 the room and shoot her dead. At least for once the cover-up isn't worse than the crime...
...this long before the Clintons came along. In Frank Capra's 1948 State of the Union, Spencer Tracy plays a straight-talking businessman having an affair with Angela Lansbury. A newspaper magnate and political kingmaker, Lansbury decides to push Tracy into a presidential run. That means getting his estranged wife, played by Katharine Hepburn, to agree to act the contented spouse on the campaign trail...
...became friends, no real sense of closeness. This might be tolerable if Art worked as a Shavian battle of wit and ideas, but mostly it's just three guys needling each other about everything from Serge's haughty use of the term "the artist" to the way Marc's wife contemptuously waves away cigarette smoke...
...Melinda (my wife) at the hotel. We walked up Pennsylvania Avenue so I could show her the boardinghouse I stayed in when I was a page in Congress. We walked up the steps of the Capitol. I showed her the flagpole where they run flags up and down all day so they can send flags to people all over the U.S. mentioning that they flew over the U.S. Capitol. We had a quick pizza for dinner. I went to bed early so I'll be fresh...