1 month ago - Dive into the world of the acclaimed movie "Wag the Dog" with these 46 fascinating facts. Uncover behind-the-scenes secrets and trivia about this political satire.

Totally absurd until it isn’t, the 1997 film “Wag the Dog” still manages to feel prescient despite its age and thematic distance from current American politics. In the realest sense possible, we are living in the film’s own world — except dialed up many, many notches.

January 9, 1998 - Wag the Dog: Directed by Barry Levinson. With Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, Woody Harrelson. Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a Presidential sex scandal.

Wag the Dog is a 1997 political satire film that criticizes the manipulation of public opinion through mass media and propaganda. It tells the story of a president who fakes a war with Albania to distract from a sex scandal shortly before an election. The film uses techniques like parody, irony ...

December 26, 1997 - "Why does a dog wag its tail? Because the dog is smarter than the tail. If the tail was smarter, it would wag the dog." · Hollywood and Presidential politics - perfect together. Anyone who doubts this simple maxim will face a challenge to their opinion when they see Wag the Dog, the hilarious ...

Turns out that only in the movies do politicians get any real boost from military distractions.

This scattershot satire about faking ... Colors into theaters and was on screens as the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke. Now, on DVD, it comes loaded with extras — something an intelligent if flawed film like Wag can benefit from more than most....

Written by Hilary Henkin (screenplay) Larry Beinhart (book) Directed by Barry Levinson · Dustin Hoffman ... Stanley Motss Robert De Niro ... Conrad Brean Anne Heche ... Winifred Ames Denis Leary ... Fad King Willie Nelson ... Johnny Dean Kirsten Dunst ... Tracy Lime William H. Macy ...

2 weeks ago - Wag the Dog was released one month before the news broke of the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal and the bombing of the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Sudan by the Clinton administration in August 1998, which prompted the media to draw comparisons between the film and reality.

January 28, 2013 - Find anything you save across the site in your account · Richard and Pat Nixon, two essentially shy people who would now both be a hundred years old, first met onstage. Each had a role in the Whittier Community Players’ 1938 production of “The Dark Tower,” by George S. Kaufman and Alexander ...

Bin Laden: 'Comply with God's order to kill the Americans' (08-20-98) · U.S. strikes 'terrorist' targets in Afghanistan, Sudan (08-20-98)

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WAG THE DOG by David Mamet 10/14/96 FADE IN: A CARD, WHITE ON THE BLACK SCREEN, READS: Why does a dog wag its tail? BENEATH IT, THE NEXT LINE FADES IN: Because a dog is smarter than its tail. CROSS-FADE TO THE NEXT CARD, WHICH READS: If the tail were smarter, the tail would wag the dog.

December 15, 1997 - Glib cynicism isn't a tremendously appealing quality, but in "Wag the Dog" it at least has the benefit of comic precision and polished handling.

March 31, 2015 - Livenson, B. (Director). (1997). Wag The Dog [Motion picture]. America. For Blog number three I chose to watch the movie Wag The Dog and explore the ethical issues that were present throughout the film. I thought it was interesting how the movie opened with the quote “Why does a dog wag its tail?

March 6, 2019 - "Why does a dog wag its tail?" Glad you asked. "Because a dog is smarter than its tail.

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