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Not sure why this is interesting, but for some reason it is. Phoebe Legere turned me on to "The War Room" years ago, and it is still to this day one of The Corsair's favorite documentaries. It is an amazing look at the thumos, the dedication and the exhaustion that goes into electing your candidate President. The relationship between the fluffy-haired George Stephanopoulos -- then a newbie to Presidential-level politics -- and the grizzled, Cajun-fried populist James "Stickin'" Carville was the glue that held the doc together. And it still holds to this day. From TVNewser:
"Sometime this morning, CNN contributor James Carville and ABC's This Week anchor George Stephanopoulos will be talking on the phone, as they do every morning.
"That piece of information, that Carville and Stephanopoulos still talk every day 'between 6:15 and 7:45am,' is one of the revelations in the new documentary from DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, the team that brought 'The War Room' to the screen 15 years ago.
"Their upcoming film, 'Return of the War Room,' looks back at the film that documented Gov. Bill Clinton becoming President."
Wonder how George manages that hour and a half call daily while, uhm, navigating his robust sex life with his wife, Ali Wentworth.
2 comments:
blah; i was hoping Pennebaker could've gotten access to the Obama campaign; would love to see how "the new media" has changed communications and running a campaign 21st Century-stylee. This is a historic run; I'd have loved to have seen what went into it.
me, too. Axelrod-Obama are a game changing generational shift. I was talking to fellow blogger Michael Duby about this yesterday and he made the interesting point that Howard Dean's victory over Ickes for DNC leadership presaged the sea change.
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