If we have to relive the 2000 election in the state of Florida, the best way is to watch the drama unfold chad by chad in the HBO movie Recount, which airs on May 25. Archival footage of the candidates, George W. Bush and Al Gore, is neatly folded into the drama about the attempt to make every vote count in that pivotal state where decisions were made by the likes of Kathryn Harris played to ditzy perfection by Laura Dern gone brunette. Kevin Spacey, Tom Wilkinson, Bob Balaban, Ed Begley, Jr., Denis Leary give excellent performances as the key players in both Democrat and Republican camps. Dern, Spacey, Leary, and Balaban attended last night's premiere, at MoMA followed by dinner at The Four Seasons. Upon entering the restaurant, diners were given ballots that duplicated the butterfly ballots that were so confusing to Florida “bubbies,” the candidates switched to Obama, Clinton, and McCain. Needless to say, in a crowd of New York sophisticates, Obama would hold sway with Clinton coming in second. The stellar crowd including Tina Brown, Sidney Lumet, Stanley Crouch, Richard Holbrooke experienced firsthand the distinctions between dimpled and dangling, and we all learned that the plural of chad is, well, chad.
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