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Article: Beatty's courage? (film director Warren Beatty's motion picture 'Bulworth')
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- Commonweal
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- June 19, 1998
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'Bulworth'
As I write this, Warren Beatty's Bulworth is receiving rave reviews praising its star-writer-director for his courage in telling shocking political truths to his audience. In fact, just as his hero, Senator Jay Bulworth, must first launch himself into a state of frenzy through sleeplessness and self-starvation before dating to denounce big business, so Beatty, some reviewers have suggested, displays a divine madness in making a movie so brazenly political, so unabashedly left-wing.
Well, the movie is political and it is left-wing. But what is the nature of its daring?
The film's main plot device is a not-so-golden oldie that served ...
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