Volume 45, Number 12 · July 16, 1998
Slumming
By Garry Wills
Bulworth
a film by and with Warren Beatty
The New York Times Magazine for May 10 ran the picture of a meditative Warren Beatty on its cover, hand propped on fist like Rodin's Thinker. The story inside, by Lynn Hirschberg, stressed the political seriousness of Beatty's new film Bulworth, and the cover itself proclaimed that it is 'a movie espousing Jesse Jackson's politics.' That sounds plausible. After all, an early pan shot finds a Jackson sticker among the title character's political memorabilia. Before long, Senator Jay Billington Bulworth starts speaking in rhymed political slogans, which used to be a Jackson trademark. And some of the ideological points made sound like Jackson's—e.g., that economic disparity is growing in America while jobs drain off to other countries.
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