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The Candidate, Part II

    by Will Bunch | Columnist
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There's an interesting item on the Editor and Publisher blog about an upcoming event at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a Robert Redford retrospective that will include a showing of "All the President's Men" followed by a panel discussion with Redford, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. It led me to check out the schedule for the whole event, and I was struck by the synopsis for one of my favorite political movies, "The Candidate."

This Oscar-winning satire skewers the American political machine. Redford stars as a handsome young politician who compromises his liberal ideals in order to win a senate race he was never supposed to have a shot at.

That would never happen in real life. Unless the guy ran for president.