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(Riseto the occasion, heh-heh.
Gary Hart brings out ones inner Beavis.
Ever seen a front runner naked?)
Oh, yes: a measure of dignity.
(Q: Wheres the beef?
A: Its in the rice!)
Until that moment, reporters who fancied themselves legitimate looked the other way when male candidates had illicit trysts.
The question hangs over the movie: Was that journalistic abstinence a good or bad thing?
Theres no firm answer, but the director, Jason Reitman, certainly has his biases.
Parker (Mamoudou Athie) gets a rare one-on-one on a plane with Hart.
He would probably remakeColumbowith Columbo as the bad guy.)
He looks at his pad.
He suffers some more.
Then he earns his 30 pieces of silver.
Reitman gives Ari Graynor as theWaPos Ann Devroy an excellent speech in which she bites the head off A.J.
The Front Runneris serious business so serious that theres no place for breezier speculation about Harts bad habits.
But at least Hart is alive to see his own biopic.
And still married, too.
