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Hollywood and the President.(film criticism)

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| April 01, 2002 | Roggeveen, Sam | COPYRIGHT 2002 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

AUSTRALIAN FANS of the Nine Network's late-night White House drama series The West Wing were on tenterhooks for months. Will President Josiah Bartlett run again or won't he? We now know he will, though his campaign for reelection foundered early on two intertwined plot threads. First, there is the recently revealed fact that the President has multiple sclerosis. Second, a friendly government has been ousted in Haiti, and the USA may have to invade. But Bartlett's advisers worry that the media will say that a military operation is merely a distraction from the fact that the President has been hiding a serious illness from the public for his entire first term.

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