Talk about turnin' lemons into lemonade!
I'll be brief. No need to go through the plot, as many others have already done here; if you've made your way down to this review, you've got the gist of it. 2 characters, from very different worlds, established very early on as equals, both as human beings and as masters in the art of manipulation: Blaze Starr, "exotic dancer," & Earl Long, "good ol' boy" US Southern Democratic politician. The story here is in how they each apply the art: first, in their individual lives; and then, as a team, in the process changing the faces of American politics and media.
Never learned the actual history; makes me want to look it up to find out how many specific scenes are real. One that I sure hope is:
"I have a confession to make... "I can't cook."
"We'll work around it."
almost exactly, an exchange between me & my wife before we were married.
What more can I ask from a movie? P.S. We did. And I haven't gone hungry.
I'll be brief. No need to go through the plot, as many others have already done here; if you've made your way down to this review, you've got the gist of it. 2 characters, from very different worlds, established very early on as equals, both as human beings and as masters in the art of manipulation: Blaze Starr, "exotic dancer," & Earl Long, "good ol' boy" US Southern Democratic politician. The story here is in how they each apply the art: first, in their individual lives; and then, as a team, in the process changing the faces of American politics and media.
Never learned the actual history; makes me want to look it up to find out how many specific scenes are real. One that I sure hope is:
"I have a confession to make... "I can't cook."
"We'll work around it."
almost exactly, an exchange between me & my wife before we were married.
What more can I ask from a movie? P.S. We did. And I haven't gone hungry.