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Spielberg's "Private Lewinsky Draws Raves, Box-office Suc?ss By JANET MASLIN AUGUST 1, 2018 — A zipper drops, an undergarment shoots by, a dress is stained—from the first moments of Steven...
...The opening 24-minute “Documents Room” sequence is one of the most harrowing passages in film history...
...Whereas traditional White House romance movies have been gauzily idealized, stressing either the comeliness of the intern or the bravery of the embattled chief executive, this one puts us on the ground, showing us the raw knee abrasions and all the other horrors of public service...
...Released just two weeks ago, the film led new features for gross receipts...
...This movie puts you face to face with what we went through,” said Arkansas senator Dolly Kyle Browning, who was among the second wave to land on the carpet in the gubernatorial mansion in 1982...
...There were scenes when I had to ask them to shut off the projector...
...Spielberg's "Private Lewinsky Draws Raves, Box-office Suc?ss By JANET MASLIN AUGUST 1, 2018 — A zipper drops, an undergarment shoots by, a dress is stained—from the first moments of Steven Spielberg’s new film, “Saving Private Lewinsky,” viewers know that this is an Oval Office adultery movie like none before...
...At a twentieth-anniversary reunion of veterans of the Bimbo invasion, held in Little Rock’s Excelsior Hotel, several of the more than 400 attendees praised the film’s authenticity...
...I just wish some of the girlfriends I left underneath the desk in that mansion were still here to see it...
...Spielberg claims he envisioned “Private Lewinsky” as a pro-adultery movie, which nonetheless doesn’t shy away from the sacrifices involved...
...This is the most genuine movie about the subject ever made,” said historian Nina Burleigh, who worked as a paid consultant on the project...
Vol. 3 • August 1998 • No. 46
