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Clinton - Craven’s
new obsession
Horror movie director Wes Craven, the man behind
such slasher classics as Scream and Nightmare
on Elm Street, has made a film of former President
Clinton giving a White House tour during his last
days in office, a spokesman for one of the movie’s
producers said.
Footage of the tour is to be edited into an hour-long
documentary that will eventually be shown at the
future Clinton presidential library in Arkansas,
the spokesman said.
Craven spent nearly three hours following Clinton
through the historic mansion at 1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue, including the Oval Office, Cabinet room
and other areas normally off-limits to the public.
The crew then went back through rarely visited
private quarters at the first lady’s request
to film for posterity.
“I was thinking, ‘Here I am. I’ve
made some of the most horrific films, and now
I’m in the White House”, Craven was
quoted. “Someone said I should have brought
a Scream mask and have someone jump out in it,
but that would have been the last time we would
have been invited over.” The movie, which
is still in production, is being co-produced by
Miramax Films co-chairman Harvey Weinstein and
Jane Rosenthal of Tribeca Productions, Robert
De Niro’s film company, Weinstein spokesman
Matthew Hiltzik said.
Hiltzik said the idea for the documentary arose
after Craven visited the White House for a screening
of his movie Music of the Heart last year. The
tour, he said, was filmed sometime during Clinton’s
last week in office. One notable White House chamber
filmed by Craven, was the Lincoln Bedroom, where
numerous friends and political donors of Clinton
slept during his eight years in office. But Weinstein’s
spokesman said the Oval Office ante room where
Clinton romped with White House intern Monica
Lewinsky would not be shown.
The White House tour film will hardly be Clinton’s
movie debut. As recently as last April, he co-starred
with wife Hillary Rodham Clinton in a mock documentary
screened at the White House Correspondents’
Association annual black-tie dinner. That video,
produced with the help of The West Wing stars
Martin Sheen and Rob Lowe, depicted Clinton answering
the White House phones, trading online and making
brown bag lunches for his U.S.-Senate campaigning
wife.
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