William Russell (Henry Fonda) sees his own initials in suntan form (lower left). Gore Vidal’s THE BEST MAN, directed by Franklin Schaffner. All the bikini girls look like Pamela Tiffin.
This is a good film to watch right about now (once you’re done with Halloween viewing, anyhow) since it deals with elections and personalities and smearing and such — I recommend. It has a sunny ending which Vidal probably never quite believed in: the bulk of the action suggests that political office in a democracy is denied to the worthy and proffered to the corrupt or mediocre…
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