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Discuss: Do Real Media Celebrities Make Sense in Fiction?
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The basic scenario behind Swing Vote makes for an easy pitch: An average American (Kevin Costner) winds up in the position of casting the deciding vote in a presidential election. Both candidates (played by Kelsey Grammer and Dennis Hopper) fly into town and try to woo him. It's a simple premise clearly aimed at exploring the various quirks of the political process. However, although it is quite a fantastical situation, the filmmakers have put quite an effort into incorporating at least one element from the real world: News anchors. Countless movies have asked Jay Leno and his fellow late night brethren to make cameos on TV joking about this or that bit of plot to add a sense of realism, but Swing Vote brings a slightly different set of rules to the table: The presidential candidates are clearly fictional (and Grammer, the Republican candidate, doesn't have many Bush-like qualities), while the news anchors, for the most part, play themselves. If you ask me, something doesn't quite add up here. Chris Matthews blares into the camera about the ramifications of the election snafu. Tucker Carlson follows suit. Larry King delivers his trademark monotone. And Arianna Huffington gets a full-blown monologue. How is it that all these people can play themselves in a world with a completely different president, one virtually devoid (as far as we can tell) of modern talking points like the Iraq War and the beleaguered economy? It's almost as if they've been imported from another dimension.
Clooney vs. Huffington: Who Wants a Celebrity Death-Match?
Filed under: RumorMonger », Celebrities and Controversy », Newsstand », George Clooney »
Remind me to never, ever, fake a blog post from George Clooney here at Cinematical, because he really does not take kindly
to that. Arianna Huffington knows that firsthand now - she posted a "blog post" purported to be from
Clooney on her Huffington Post Blog on Monday, in which
Clooney supposedly slammed Dems who voted for the war in Iraq as being afraid of being labeled liberal.
The post, however, wasn't actually written by Clooney at all - it was compiled from quotes from interviews Clooney did with The Guardian and Larry King Live. Clooney reacted by issuing a statement calling Huffington's methods "purposefully misleading", and in an interview with New York Daily News' Lloyd Grove, reportedly said of a conversation he had with Huffington, "She said some things I won't share, but she did tell me that this could be bad for me -- bad for my career. Well, screw you!"
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