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Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Advise & Consent is a fascinating look at the inner workings of the United States Senate. I like the exploration of ...
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Advise & Consent is a 1962 American political drama film based on the Pulitzer Prize -winning novel Advise and Consent by Allen Drury, published in 1959. [2] The film was adapted for the screen by Wendell Mayes and was directed by Otto Preminger. The film, set in Washington, D.C., follows the nomination process of a man who commits perjury in ...
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Jun 10, 2005 · Review: Advise and Consent. As any lonely homosexual can tell you upon leaving a gay club empty-handed, gay people’s worst enemies are often other gay people. An informative May 15, 2005 New York Times article by Frank Rich (hysterically titled “Just How Gay is the Right?”) unpacked Advise and Consent —not only the magnificent 1962 film ...
Filter by Rating: 10/10. One of the great political films of all time. blanche-2 11 September 2008. An ill President wants his nominee for Secretary of State confirmed in "Advise and Consent," a 1962 film based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Alan Drury and directed by Otto Preminger. It was the first film in seven years for Gene Tierney ...
One contemporary review compared Advise and Consent’s storytelling to that of Gone with the Wind; Herman Wouk, one of the bestselling novelists of the latter half of the 20th century, mentioned Drury’s name in the same breath as that shrewd observer of Victorian England, Anthony Trollope. Drury won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1960.
Roger Kaplan of Policy Review wrote in 1999 that the novel "in many ways invented a genre in fiction…. The use of a racy intrigue, if possible involving both sex and foreign policy, is what characterizes the contemporary form. Forty years on, Advise and Consent is the only book of this genre that a literary-minded person really ought to read."
