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Article: UNMAKING OF THE PRESIDENT HOLLYWOOD LOSES ITS REVERENCE FOR THE MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- February 16, 1998
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Byline: Bob Thomas Associated Press
LOS ANGELES -- Movies once portrayed U.S. presidents as stalwart leaders. Not anymore. Watergate, CIA skullduggery and JFK's dalliances have changed Hollywood's view of the presidency from reverence to scandal-driven cynicism.
Today's movies tend to portray presidents as womanizers, conspirators, and cover-up artists, and sometimes, life seems to imitate art.
Wag the Dog - uncannily in nationwide release while allegations of scandal swirl around President Clinton - depicts an unseen president who has had sex with a young woman. The White House hires a spinmeister (Robert De Niro) who enlists a Hollywood ...