The voyeuristic thrill of that moment, in which the perfect pitch of an imagined incident utterly trumps the truth of last month's nightly news, will be part of the guilty pleasure of this Primary Colors for thousands of Americans after it opens on Friday, just as it was when Joe Klein's novel began life two years ago as an anonymously published parlor game.Īfter all, Bill Clinton is a president capable of comparing his suffering at the hands of an unjust media to that of Richard Jewell, the security guard who was wrongly identified as a suspect in the Atlanta Olympics bombing.īut whatever the film critics end up saying about the artistic merits of the movie, which is directed by Mike Nichols from a screenplay by Elaine May, the story it tells is, on the big screen, inevitably larger and more powerful than it was in the book.
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