[spintreebob]

All the movies that I have seen with a president are passably entertaining except Jamie Fox. He can’t act and he is lousy as himself.

(Politics aside)

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This added at the top of the article:

Programming note: In a couple of hours’ time Mark will be joining Kat, Tyrus and his fellow Torontonian Dr Debra Soh on “The Greg Gutfeld Show”, live across America at 10pm Eastern/7pm Pacific. We hope you’ll tune in!

[Kirkwood]

That would be Ronald Reagan.

[Gay State Conservative]

I saw Steyn speak several years ago at a Synagoge near me. He’s far better in person than he is on Fox News or filling in for Rush.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Programming note: In a couple of hours' time Mark will be joining Kat, Tyrus and his fellow Torontonian Dr Debra Soh on "The Greg Gutfeld Show", live across America at 10pm Eastern/7pm Pacific. We hope you'll tune in!...should be worth watching.....

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***signing a doppelgänger to cover for him ***

Sounds like a takeoff on THE PHANTOM PRESIDENT with George M. Cohan and Jimmie Durante.
Favorite scene...Durante is giving a pep talk, told to cease, and he looks at the rear end of the police horse, whose end morphs into a politician giving a speech inside..

[Rummyfan]

At any rate Douglas gives a fine sober performance of a White House widower. Alas, he's surrounded by spinners and fixers and focus-groupsters who analyze things only in terms of whether it'll add two points to his approval rating among soccer moms in Ohio. Until, that is, a lobbyist called Sydney shows up and he falls in love. No, not Blumenthal. This Sydney is Annette Bening, playing an environmental lobbyist who stiffens President Shepherd's resolve: is that a firm set of principles in your pocket or are you just pleased see me? As it happens, both. The American President was a therapy exercise for disillusioned Hollywood liberals midway through Clinton's first term, when they were just beginning to realize he was a trimmer and triangulator who didn't care about anything except how much action he was getting. Douglas can't quite throw off the whiff of liberal condescension, but Richard Dreyfuss does such a good job as evil GOP cartoon villain Senator Bob Rumson that, as with Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man, I'm sure a lot of us were rooting for the baddie.

That flick was the biggest pile of manure to come out of Hollywood in twenty years.