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	Wag the Dog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wag the Dog was produced and directed by Barry Levinson, famous for the television series Homicide and Oz.
		If the tail was smarter, the tail would wag the dog." Interpretations differ as to the meaning of this metaphor.
		An essay on Baudrillard and Wag the Dog
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	Wag The Dog
		The themes and plot to Wag the Dog, in all of their biting satire and perceived cynicism, are at heart a true exemplification of the ideas procured from Jean Baudrillard's three aforementioned works.
		Wag the Dog exemplifies Baudrillard perfectly by simply demonstrating how mesmerising and seductive the image is. The images we see in the cinema, on CNN, and in our daily lives are reality in as much as they are what people sense, interpret, and trust.
		Wag the Dog is also remarkably in tune with Baudrillard on a another level, as the film became remarkably prophetic in its story.
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		Wag the Dog has less fat on its bones than anything Levinson has done since Diner -- he shot it in less than a month, and it shows in all the best ways.
		Everyone in Wag the Dog is in on the joke; everyone is in top form, including the composer, Mark Knopfler, and especially the editor, Stu Linder.
		Simultaneously rapid-fire and relaxed, Wag the Dog is a satire with teeth and a vaudeville spirit.
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	Wag the Dog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Whatever the attraction is, be it the neglected garbage bins, fresh sausage smell emanating from the kitchen window, or the general comfort of a house and home, it is constant and unwavering.
		It's a very big dog, but my fence is tall and one day I may end up digging a hole under it to set this restless soul to peace.
		I left a slice of turkey breast in the path, and found it that same night, sowed with ants, as the dog with a bleeding forehead lay by the fence and whimpered.
	www.joshlyman.com /fanfic/wag.html (648 words)

	Wag the Dog Home
		Walks and time at the dog park can be more fun when your dog learns how to react to and interact with other dogs.
		Wag the Dog's philosophy is based in the science of animal behavior (ethology), physiology, neuropsychology, and positive learning theory.
		Wag the Dog is your favorite dog-lovin' sitter, for those times when Fido needs some surrogate love while you're out bringing home the bacon.
	www.wagthedoggiedaycare.com (286 words)

	Wag the Dog . Tucson Weekly . 01-20-98
		WAG THE DOG begins with a corny, televised campaign commercial that obviously plays to the lowest common denominator: "Don't switch horses in midstream!" goes the slogan, and then a pair of horsemen explain the meaning of this common phrase.
		That said, the first half hour of Wag the Dog is fast-paced, biting, and funny.
		There's something cynically wonderful about this: While we may feel fairly certain that the footage from the Gulf War wasn't actually filmed in a soundstage in Burbank, it's true that the press was given such limited and controlled access that the government effectively shaped the news coverage.
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		Because the dog is smarter than the tail.
		If the tail was smarter, it would wag the dog." The film then proceeds to wag the dog for all its worth.
		Wag the Dog tells the (fictional) story of a Presidential campaign fiasco (involving the President and a girl scout) and the (ficitional) war that is created to divert the media's attention (which does not employ the B-3 bomber).
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	Wag The Dog
		Watching “Wag The Dog” also made me once again ponder the power of sensation-loving newscasts in a world where the disappearance of somebody’s pants from the domestic clothesline have become more important than real political situations or other incidents around the world.
		“Wag The Dog” is perfectly cast with Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman; both lend necessary gravity and believability to the story.
		They are both extremely reputable actors with a wide variety of skills and talents, and in “Wag The Dog”, they finally have the chance to show off their comedic skills once again.
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	Wag the Dog
		Wag the Dog's outlandish humor is only enhanced by its nearly psychic resemblance to events shortly following its 1997 release.
		Wag the Dog will make you think twice about where you draw the line between fiction and reality.
		Of course, as frightening a concept as that may be, Wag the Dog is a film at which we can all laugh fearlessly.
	www.disenchantmentville.com /movies/wagthedog.shtml (1757 words)

	Wag the Dog, New York Urban Dog Training
		Wag the Dog is a team of experienced, effective, and versatile New York City-based dog trainers.
		Through our combined years of shelter and professional dog training experience, we know that positive reinforcement-based training is the most effective and rewarding way for dogs and their people to learn.
		Sadie is an adopted dog, and we didn't know how she would respond to training at this point in her life.
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	Wag the Dog Daycare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Wag The Dog Day Care is designed to meet the socialization, exercise and development needs of your any dog.
		The time your dog spends with us will be fun, educational, and safe.
		The staff at Wag the Dog provides caring, safe, supervised play for the special canines in your life.
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	CNN - 'Wag the Dog' grabs satire by the tail - January 6, 1998
		Written by Hilary Henkin and David Mamet, "Wag the Dog" is a broad satire that sometimes gets broad enough to remind you of something like "Dr. Strangelove," which is pretty broad indeed.
		It's the same joke chasing its tail for the last 45 minutes of the film, but, in fits and starts, there's a lot to be said for "Wag the Dog." Everyone involved, especially Barry Levinson, should be applauded for stepping out a little bit.
		"Wag the Dog" contains the usual barrage of Mamet profanities, and the cold manipulation is sometimes unnerving.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/9801/06/wag.dog.review (969 words)

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		Wag the Dog Art Imitates Life (Or Is It the Other Way Around?) Wag the Dog I'm bored already with that new Aesop's fable, The Intern and the President (the moral of the story -- "thou shalt not admit adultery" -- being one we've heard a million times before).
		Wag the Dog's prescience garnered some well-deserved guffaws from the audience I saw it with.
		Wag the Dog is satire, no question about it -- the wonderful cast positively revels in the absurdness of it all.
	www.flickfilosopher.com /flickfilos/archive/1q98/wagthedog.html (491 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Wag the Dog
		Depending on your perspective, Wag the Dog could be considered a fictional remake of or fictional sequel to the D. Pennebaker and Chris Higgins documentary The War Room (1993).
		Wag opted for easy, uncomplicated laughs and reactions, knowing Harrelson's presence would provide fifteen to twenty minutes of interest during a stretch when the movie's satiric thrust was waning.
		In Wag the Dog, the opposite was the case.
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		Wag the Dog is filled with such biting satire that I'm amazed that this movie was produced.
		Wag the Dog's premise is that the Prez has been caught with his pants down, so the spin doctor has been called in to divert's the tiny minds of the American public away from the tawdry episode.
		Wag the Dog is one of those five and is well worth the price of admission.
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	Wag the Dog Movie Review
		"Wag the Dog" is a subversive satire of the blurred distinction between politics and show business.
		WTD certainly starts off strongly, with snappy dialogue and pointed observations about the absurd nihilism of political intrigue, but half-way through, the film seems to run out of steam, the caustic wit losing its acerbity under the weight of the inside-jokes and referential satire.
		For example, we see Brean making his way through the White House through the eyes of the numerous video surveillance cameras, the war-planning effort is contorted through the water of Motss' swimming pool, and even the outcome of their efforts are reflected on the ceaseless video- and sound-bites.
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	"Wag the Dog," or "Wag the Cat?" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		If the tail were smarter, the tail would wag the dog." The concept is that the media manipulation specialists were actually able to outsmart the media, the nation, and the world, and the "smarter" tail "wagged the dog." This doesn’t really match up to what’s been happening in America.
		The tail would never try to wag the cat, as the cat would refuse to wag unless it really wanted to wag -- in which case it would already be wagging.
		When called into account for his actions, he reacted like a cat whose tail was wagging without his authorization -- he "bit his own tail" by attacking his accusers, who were part of the very system that he heads.
	www.case-studies.com /articles/wagdog.htm (600 words)

	Georgia Tech Library :: GT Web Localizer - WAG the Dog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		WAG the Dog (or the WAGger, for short) was developed to help you access library resources from external websites, such as Google Scholar.
		Google Scholar is just one of several websites that works with WAG the Dog, Scirus and PubMed also work, and more are on the way.
		Although WAG the Dog is secure, the viewed page is sent to a library server, and is subsequently logged.
	www.library.gatech.edu /research_help/web_localizer.html (346 words)

	Wag the Dog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the movie "Wag the Dog" the magicians are using a different type of sleight, but the intention is still the same.
		"Wag the Dog" is a reference to the saying, "the tail wagging the dog." Is the significance in this story the little girl's allegations becoming less of a problem than the eventual murder of a Hollywood producer?
		The beginning of the movie states the reason that the dog wags its tail: "Because the dog is smarter." From this we can only conclude that Conrad Bream is the tail, but the former is far more interesting because presidents in the past have found the cover-up to be their downfall.
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	WAG THE DOG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Wag the Dog has two other important personages behind the scenes: director Barry Levinson (Rain Man, Bugsy and, of course, his Baltimore trilogy, Diner, Tin Men and Avalon)
		Consequently, Wag the Dog is a movie you want to listen to as well as watch.
		Most importantly, though, Wag the Dog isn't afraid to be ludicrously and wickedly extreme.
	www.citylinkmagazine.com /culture/movies/wag.htm (1191 words)

	Wag The Dog
		Frankly Wag The Dog had me wishing I were at home spanking the monkey or choking the chicken.
		The idea is cleaver enough and even rather comical, but Wag The Dog should have been put back on the old choke chain.
		OK now that that's been taken care of, my final score for Wag The Dog is a sad four couches and a lazyboy, nearly half the score of last week's pick, Good Will Hunting.
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	Wag The Dog
		Wag The Dog is a movie that will go down in history as life imitating art.
		Wag The Dog is quite a rarity in Hollywood these days.
		Wag The Dog is a reasonable movie on a good DVD.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/WagTheDog.asp (1298 words)

	Filmtracks: Wag the Dog (Mark Knopfler)
		Wag the Dog, more than any film in the past few years, is rich with hilarious songs and quotes performed by the main characters.
		The dark, patriotic songs used by the government to brainwash the public are just as enjoyable --especially if you know their context in the film.
		All artwork and sound clips from Wag the Dog are Copyright © 1998, Mercury Records.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/wag_dog.html (487 words)

	Cranky Critic® Movie Reviews: Wag The Dog
		I don't know whether or not to sing the highest praise for a decidedly funny satire of politics and media manipulation, or to savage this sucker for implying that you and I (the "real" voting public) are a bunch of idiots.
		Then again, in all political satire, you and I are a bunch of idiots, so let's call Wag the Dog what it is, which is terrifically funny.
		What makes Wag the Dog funny is that every single plan is one which you've seen before in real life, or which you could see happening in real life.
	www.crankycritic.com /archive/wagthedog.html (691 words)

	David Mamet Society: Wag the Dog
		When the tail wags the dog, the dog is in trouble.
		The viewer is led to believe that spinmeisters are the ones that wag the dog.
		Ironically, as Wag the Dog concludes, Albanian insurgents threaten to draw the United States into combat.
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	'Wag the Dog' Back In Spotlight - Aug. 21, 1998
		It's not the latest news out of Washington, but the plot of the movie "Wag the Dog." In the 1997 movie, a shadowy spin doctor played by Robert De Niro recruits a Hollywood producer (Dustin Hoffman) to invent a war against Albania.
		From the moment Clinton went on live television Thursday to announce the bombings in Afghanistan and Sudan, "Wag the Dog's" producer-director Barry Levinson and producer Jane Rosenthal were inundated with requests for comment.
		"Look at the movie 'Wag the Dog.' I think this has all the elements of that movie," Rep. Jim Gibbons said.
	www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1998/08/21/wag.the.dog (479 words)

	SPLICEDwire: "Wag the Dog" review
		This is the sardonic set-up for "Wag the Dog," the most ingenious and wicked political satire since "Dr. Strangelove."
		An un-morality tale about the irrelevance of politicians and the gullibility of the press and public (we're the dog, you see), "Wag" was adapted by dialogue prodigy David Mamet and Hilary Henkin from the book "American Hero" by Larry Beinhart.
		These three men have been at least partially responsible for some of the most memorable movies of the last quarter century, but this one ranks among of the very best any of them have made.
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	Movie Review: Wag the Dog / Mountain Xpress / Asheville, NC
		By 1997, when Wag the Dog appeared on the scene, it included a character named Fad King (Denis Leary), whose profession was developing tie-in merchandise for just these occasions.
		The point and thrust of Wag the Dog is to depict the world of political spin-doctoring and the lengths to which politicos will go to save their own careers.
		Brilliantly scripted and acted to the point where even Barry Levinson's typically uninspired direction doesn't matter, Wag the Dog is close to the end-all be-all of political satire...
	www.mountainx.com /movies/uvw/wagthedog.php (594 words)

	‘Wag the Dog?' Let's get real now
		They'd reached the point where a White House spin doctor (Robert De Niro) was scheming with a Hollywood producer (Dustin Hoffman) to divert attention from the president's sexcapade with a young girl.
		Let's see, to pull off a "Wag the Dog" caper, Clinton had to conspire with Defense Secretary William Cohen, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, CIA chief George Tenet, and FBI head Louis Freeh.
		But the intensity of "Wag the Dog" fantasies about the missile strike shows how deeply pervasive is mistrust of Clinton.
	www.texnews.com /1998/opinion/wag0823.html (743 words)

	Review: Wag the Dog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For, although this film is one of the funniest comedies of the year, it also carries a serious, thought-provoking message about the relationship between politics and mass- market entertainment.
		The ones wagging the dog are clearly the spin doctors: Conrad, Stanley, and Winifred.
		To avoid making Wag the Dog sound too much like an intellectual challenge, let me make this clarification: the movie is intelligent, but it's also a lot of fun.
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