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Article: Hollywood's White House.(Metropolitan Times)(Life Times)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 6, 1997
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The Brookings Institution's Stephen Hess snickers at the way the president of the United States has been characterized on film and TV lately - as a wife abuser, murderer, rapist, cuckold, philanderer . . .
"We're not really talking about the Michael Douglas type," he says, referring to the squeaky-clean hero of "The American President."
Indeed, the president has always gotten bad press, but this is getting ridiculous. Lately, movies and books seem to be picking on the chief executive and his family as well:
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