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It's nice that liberals win elections now and then, but I'm not sure they should be allowed to make movies. Two new pictures, "Bobby" and "Fast Food Nation," inspired by the most humane sympathies, and outfitted with impeccably progressive attitudes--no one could disagree with a single notion in either film--are pretty much a trial to sit through. Emilio Estevez's "Bobby" is an imagining of everything that might have happened in the old Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 4, 1968, the day that Senator Robert F. Kennedy won the California primary, and during the early hours of June 5th, when he was assassinated in the ...

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