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Gary Hart Fails Again [Movie]
National Review ^ | November 5, 2018 | Kyle Smith

Posted on 11/05/2018 7:36:30 AM PST by C19fan

I was transfixed by the Gary Hart movie The Front Runner: It has a lot of levels, and it’s a failure on every one of them. Mistake gets piled atop error atop cliché atop banality. It’s a skyscraper of wrong, an hour-and-53-minute lesson in how not to make a movie.

Vigorously borrowing from The Candidate, Nashville, and The West Wing, The Front Runner covers the three weeks of Colorado Senator Hart’s 1988 presidential campaign, which ended in humiliation shortly after reporters staking out his D.C. apartment discovered a mistress, who turned out to be Donna Rice. Watching the co-writer and director Jason Reitman repeatedly frame reporters as intrusive, presumptuous, and cynical as they take down an arrogant, philandering politician by uncovering true information about him, I marveled at the maladroitness of Reitman’s timing This movie wishes it had been made in 1999. It would have raked in the accolades if it had served as an oblique commentary on the investigation into Bill Clinton’s White House affair. Alas, today is a different era.

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To: Opinionated Blowhard; Sans-Culotte
Speaking of the Kennedys...What was Gary Hart's big mistake?

Not having Ted Kennedy drive Donna Rice home.

21 posted on 11/05/2018 10:17:50 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: C19fan
I was just posting about Gary Hart on a different thread.

I remember the 1988 campaign well (Hart dropped out in May of 1987). I had just gotten married and we were staying at the Sheraton Hotel in midtown Manhattan. We were watching Gary Hart on TV answering questions and my wife beckoned me to the window and right below us and across the street was Gary Hart - answering questions! We had no idea he was right across the street from us. It was one of those surreal experiences.

It was a different time.

22 posted on 11/05/2018 10:24:50 AM PST by SamAdams76 ( If you are offended by what I have to say here then you can blame your parents for raising a wuss)
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To: Sans-Culotte

We didn’t (and don’t) need another Kennedy, at any level.


23 posted on 11/05/2018 10:34:52 AM PST by Cecily
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To: Calvin Locke

Donna Rice now IS the Swamp. One of the most successful and well-known lobbyists on K Street.

You can climb the ladder quite high on your back apparently.


24 posted on 11/05/2018 2:08:02 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Fightin Whitey

LOL!


25 posted on 11/07/2018 7:30:58 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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