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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-17-04 10:39 AM
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Bob Roberts fans check in here!!
I just picked up the DVD at a used video place for $8. I love that movie but Tim Robbins is scary as a Neo-conservative folk singer runnnig for US Senate in Pennsylvania (he makes Rick Santorum look like a hippie liberal).

Anyone else fans of the movie??
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-17-04 10:40 AM
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1. I'm a fan of Clarissa Flan!
Edited on Thu Jun-17-04 10:41 AM by GOPisEvil
Singer/songwriter Kelly Willis plays her in the movie! She's terrific! :thumbsup:

www.kellywillis.com

edited for correct name
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-17-04 10:41 AM
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3. I think Jack Black is the best in the movie
As the Bob Roberts groupie. I imagine there are freepers out there just like Jack Black from Bob Roberts
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-17-04 10:41 AM
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2. We're marching for self-interest
we'll march for ever more!
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Gothic Sponge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-17-04 10:42 AM
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4. Great movie!
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-17-04 10:43 AM
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5. Great, great film. Loved Gore Vidal as the liberal incumbent...
Roberts ultimately unseats.

"Bob Roberts" is one of the best political films ever made. Just superb.
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MallRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-17-04 10:44 AM
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6. I can't watch it ever again.
The film enraged me when it first came out... even knowing full well that it was fictional, Tim Robbins does such an incredible job of getting into the character, I couldn't help but be disgusted.

Now, after 10 years of Republican control of Congress, and 3 1/2 years of the most destructive ultra-right wing Presidency in history, I might be capable of putting my fist right through my television screen if I watched it today.

-MR
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-17-04 10:57 AM
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7. Watch "Don't Look Back", the Bob Dylan documentary to
get even more of the references.

I love the DVD, and the commentary by Gore Vidal (Sen. Brickley Paiste in the movie) is terrific.
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reprehensor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-17-04 11:04 AM
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8. Good show. Gore Vidal is great. n/t
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