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A friend of mine offers a theory about why Bill Clinton's poll numbers stayed so high throughout the Lewinsky scandal: The news made it possible for serious-minded people to spend lots of time--at the office and over lunch--talking about semen stains, vaginal insertions, and blow jobs.
But even worse is the slit-eyed, phony-baloney pout, the one he presumably thinks makes him look serious-minded.
Michael Lewis took a lot of crap from more serious-minded political reporters in 1996 for devoting so much ink to Morry Taylor, the drunken tire salesman from Michigan who made a brief, self-financed run for the Republican nomination.
She's a burden to her extended step family, so when Thomas, a serious-minded man from Massachusetts, passes through town on his way to Kansas, she marries him within the week.
Why it's being released now--instead of in the fall, when more serious-minded moviegoers could warm to it and keep it commercially viable through the first quarter award season--is anyone's guess.