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The White House cries "foul" over video clips of President Clinton used to advance the plot of a Hollywood movie. Once again, Hollywood uses technology to blur the lines between fact and fiction. Will such storytelling distort the historical record?
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readJoe Morgenstern: Movie critic for The Wall Street Journal. Steve Starkey: Producer of Contact and other Robert Zemeckis movies including Forest Gump and Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Marvin Kalb: Director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University. Joshua Wattles: Former deputy general counsel at Paramount Pictures, now in solo practice; teaches an entertainment law course at Loyola Law School. Tom Leonard: Associate dean, Berkeley graduate school of journalism. Robert Brent Toplin: Professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington; author of History By Hollywood: The Use And Abuse of the American Past (U of Illinois Press 1996). Ted Byfield: Co-founder of a New York ad agency called Material Media; former book editor, artist, and cultural critic. Gail Ruderman Feuer: Senior attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council NEA Funding: Cultural correspondent, National Public Radio.
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