Return of the War Room

 Bill Clinton's dalliance with Gennifer Flowers seems like ancient history, and guess what, it didn't stop his winning the 1992 presidential election. Last night at the Paley  Center, the Sundance Channel co-hosted a screening of "Return of the War Room" D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus's look back at their 1992 Academy Award nominated insider view of Clinton's presidential campaign, clips of Clinton and Flowers included. The not-to-be missed documentary, especially at this election time, will air on Sundance Channel on October 13 and will be featured at the Hamptons International Film Festival later in the week. Strategists James Carville and George Stepanopolous were the focus of the original, along with Dee Dee Myers, and in "Return of" they reflect upon those heady times. At the post-screening panel, New York Magazine film critic/moderator David Edelstein asked the panelists, Pennebaker, Hegedus, Myers, Carville, and Newsweek writer Mark Miller-- to comment upon the importance of the original War Room documentary. Carville said that the film peeled back the curtain and showed that campaigns are seat of pants efforts, run by human beings. Exuding pride at what he accomplished, Carville is grateful to have a film he will be able to show his grandchildren. As charismatic as Carville is, the surprise star of "Return of the War Room" is his wife Mary Matalin, who, many may recall was strategist for the opposition, "Pappy" Bush, at the same time the two were courting. Ah the days of integrity, when no one gave a thought that one would unwittingly leak information—you know, pillow talk—days of innocence, when Matalin dispatched journalists to find out if Carville was seeing someone else. Or how she took to losing—as Carville's mother came to visit, says Matalin, "Mother induced civility kept me from being mad forever." After the panel, Carville dashed off the the Plaza Athenee where a dinner was underway, joining Steven Soderbergh and Benicio del Toro for a celebration of the epic "Che," featured at the current New York Film Festival. It's a fictional account of a very different political hero.

Regina Weinreich

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