Article: VIDEO : PRESIDENT IN PERIL A HIGH-FLYING IDEA.(L.A. LIFE) (video recording review)

Byline: Robert Bianco Special to the Daily News

Maybe Americans aren't as cynical about the presidency as the media thinks they are.

Conventional cynics, after all, questioned the wisdom of banking money on ``Air Force One'' (1997, Columbia TriStar; $14.95), insisting that the public was too disillusioned to buy the idea of a heroic president. Instead, people bought enough tickets to turn ``Air Force One'' into one of the summer's biggest blockbusters - summer's biggest blockbusters - one that far outdrew more supposedly culturally attuned movies that presented the president as a murderer. As the media keeps discovering, and then forgetting, there's a ...

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