Picaresque political farce from screenwriter Lefcourt (Abbreviating
Ernie, 1997, etc.), featuring a crusty, thoroughly incompetent but
roguishly charming antihero, Vermont Senator Woodrow Wilson
("Woody") White - a failure at everything but survival. Woody White
was once notorious on Capitol Hill as a man with a "zipper
problem," that is, a compulsive seducer for whom sex with
lobbyists, aides, and on the rarest occasions, his trophy-bride
Daphne, is one more way of feeling loved. So why, in his vigorous
fifth decade, does he find himself impotent with the beauteous
Evelyn Brandwynne, a lobbyist representing condom manufacturers?
Woody's not worried about his reelection campaign - his overpaid
consultants have summed up his trivial two-term career with a
winning slogan: "Woody White - he's there!" His wife's affair with
a female Finnish figure skater doesn't thrill him, but he's willing
to ignore that as long as she'll wear that special dress that
catches Clinton's eye at White House receptions. His previous wives
only want their slice of the $1.2 million advance he got from
Random House to sign his name on a ghostwritten autobiography.
Trent Lott wants cash, and Woody's support on bills Woody can't
even remember, much less understand, in exchange for forgetting
about the damage Woody did when, drunk on expensive wine, he rammed
Lott's Ford Explorer in the Senate parking lot. If this weren't
enough, one of Woody's major campaign contributors, the Vermont
Maple Syrup Distributors Association, is a front for mobsters who
name themselves after US presidents. Using his characteristic
combination of breezy charisma and dumb luck, Woody manages to
survive an ethics investigation, a genuinely worthy political
opponent, and other foibles, imbroglios, and potential disasters,
discovering, to his delight, that a peculiar procedure involving
tape, shaving cream, and Brandwynne in a starched nurse's uniform
cures impotence better than Viagra. Campy, name-dropping,
warts-and-gall send-up of Capitol Hill, with enough insider sleaze
to make us wonder how Lefcourt did his research, and with whom.
(Kirkus Reviews)
Senator Woody White is being blackmailed by his wife, sued by his ex-wife, shaken down by a Vermont maple syrup kingpin, terrorized by his neo-fascist housekeeper, and dragged into litigation over a fender bender in the Senate parking garage. But when he is stricken with an ill-timed case of ED (Erectile Dysfunction), the desperate player faces his biggest campaign killer of all and goes to hilarious extremes to keep himself in the running. Peter Lefcourt holds a perfectly cracked mirror to the spin-filled world of Washington's sexual politics and asks a penetrating question: How hard does a politician have to be?
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