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Sorry, Charlie: Hollywood does our most notorious congressman wrong.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-JAN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Sorry, Charlie: Hollywood does our most notorious congressman wrong.(Hollywood, TX: CHRISTOPHER KELLY ON OUR STATE OF ENTERTAINMENT)

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It's not the surprisingly listless central performance by Tom Hanks, who looks sluggish and indifferent playing the larger-than-life East Texas congressman Charlie Wilson. (The actor's Southern accent sounds even worse, as if he refined it by watching The Dukes of Hazzard reruns.) And it's not the self-congratulatory presence of Julia Roberts, who wears an enormous blond wig and unvarying smirk as Houston socialite Joanne Herring. (Roberts doesn't really act anymore; she just keeps reminding us, as she did in the Ocean's Eleven movies, that there's nothing quite so fabulous as being Julia Roberts.) It's not even the fact that the screenplay, by The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin, serves up a liberal grandstander's portrait of Wilson, basically arguing that had Republicans paid closer attention to this fun-lovin' Southern Democrat, the United States never would have gotten into such a...

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