Theme Song: Fleetwood Mac, Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow
The Politics of Affairs and the Affairs of Politics
Wilbur Mills & Fanne Foxe (Brazilian Stripper)
Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York & Vice President of the United States
Primary Colors
1998 (135 Minutes)
Primary Colors first emerged as a popular book by a writer who used the pen name, Anonymous. It created quite a stir because the leading character, Jack Stanton, was markedly similar to President Bill Clinton. The writer turned out to be Joe Klein, a writer for Newsweek magazine who covered the Clinton campaign.
"I think he's spent
his entire life being scared that he was white trash."
--- Clinton Advisor, Betsey Wright
“Drag a hundred dollars through
a trailer park and there’s no telling what you’ll find.”
--- Clinton Advisor, James Carville (set off a political firestorm)
Bill Clinton and John Travolta as Governor Jack Stanton
Hillary & Bill Clinton
Susan & Jack Stanton
Campaign Advisor, James Carville
Billy Bob Thornton as Campaign Advisor, Richard Jemmons
Communications Director, George Stephanopoulos
Media Advisor, Mandy Grunwald
Their "Counterparts" in the Film:
Adrian Lester as "Henry Burton"
Maura Tierney as "Daisy"
Clinton Advisor, Betsey Wright who coined the
term "bimbo eruptions"
Kathy Bates (SMU Graduate) as "Libby Holden"
(based very loosely on Wright)