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TANNER REVISITED.(Movie Review)

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In her new documentary, "Diary of a Political Tourist," Alexandra Pelosi, who spent nearly two years chasing after the Democrats who were themselves chasing after the 2004 Presidential nomination, asks Howard Dean, as he's hurrying down a New York City street in 2003, why he's carrying his own bag. Can't he get anyone to do it for him? she says. Dean replies cheerfully that it's a point of pride with him. Pelosi's film is a follow-up to her 2002 "Journeys with George," a self-consciously goofy, boys-on-the-bus romp through George W. Bush's campaign, and it will air on HBO next week, at around the same time that another political sequel will be shown on the Sundance ...

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