Clinton's Weird Guy

A lively film about the campaign stalks a brightly colored political animal

/ Flanked by Paul Tsongas on the highroad and Gennifer Flowers on the low, Bill Clinton is doing phone interviews in a hotel room, struggling to keep his presidential hopes alive in the New Hampshire primary. Finishing his chores with the press ("Betcha I said something you can take out of context," he observes wearily), Clinton wanders over to a table where staffers are discussing their image as reported in the press. He claps James Carville, his chief political strategist, on the shoulder and says, "You weird guys gotta stick together."

Thereafter, in The War Room, Clinton is pretty much a...

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