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Documentary Ruffling White House Feathers
Advisors to President Bush aren't happy with a documentary premiering at the South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas, next month. The fun-loving antics captured on celluloid, they fear, could undermine the new square-jawed image sent out by the chief executive.
The 75-minute "Journeys With George" was shot by Alexandra Pelosi, who covered the campaign as a producer for NBC. Bush not only sat down for interviews, she says, but also came up with the name of the movie.
"It is not a George Bush blooper tape," said Pelosi, 31, who is the daughter of Nancy Pelosi, the new House Democratic whip. "This is the campaign experience from my seat."
In one scene, Bush is shown wading through throngs of journalists who are sipping margaritas in the back of the presidential campaign plane. "These are my people," he says. "It takes an animal to know an animal. And I'm not admitting I'm an animal with 50 days to go in the campaign." Though the President doesn't break his sobriety, Pelosi shows him drinking a nonalcoholic beer with gusto--something other photographers were forbidden to shoot.
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