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In the Flytrap universe, there is a White House counsel (Charles Ruff) who can't counsel, a presidential confidant (Bruce Lindsey) whom the president can't confide in, a presidential wife who acts like a lawyer, a president who acts like a criminal defendant, and a former intern who has more power than any of them.
Quoting "her friend and confidant" Sir Ian McKellen, the Oscar-nominated actor, the paper said she was going to live there because the press and public are more sympathetic toward her in Britain.
"Get Bruce is exactly the kind of documentary we all want to have made about ourselves, in which it is revealed that we are funny, smart, beloved, the trusted confidant of famous people, the power behind the scenes at great events and the apple of our mother's eye" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Vilanch has written for just about every current big-screen celebrity, and Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, Lily Tomlin, and Rosie O'Donnell (to name-drop a few) appear in the film singing his praises.
The paper quotes a confidant of the as yet undeclared candidate in summing up the ferment: "the fires are burning as hot as the sun . . . it's saddle up and ride."
In an acid reference to the Lewinsky cover-up, a confidant of Netanyahu's suggested that Clinton, after initially saying that Pollard "is going to be released," had taken refuge in "a dispute about the word 'is.