The Boston Globe, April 9th, 2006
It doesn't take much effort to figure out the real-life models for "American Dreamz," the Paul Weitz-directed satirical comedy that opens April 21. The hit TV show that gives the movie its title is, yes, "American Idol." Its sarcastic English host (Hugh Grant) is Simon Cowell. The US president who goes on the show as a judge (Dennis Quaid) is George W. Bush. The manipulative vice president (Willem Dafoe) is Dick Cheney. And television is . . . television . The movies have long had a strained relationship with politics. (Frank Capra claimed that a consortium of Hollywood studios wanted to suppr...
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