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From:
National Catholic Reporter
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June 19, 1998| Author:
Cunneen, Joseph
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Warren Beatty must have had a good time making Bulworth (20th Century Fox), and his new political satire makes a lot of that fun infectious. Directing, writing the screenplay (with Jeremey Pikser) and playing the California senator who is having a nervous breakdown during the last weeks of a primary campaign for reelection, Beatty is to be applauded for using his star capital to denounce the hypocrisy and racism of current "smart" politics.
You'd have a nervous breakdo...