Game Change (Gimme Moore Election Day Bonus!)

ELECTION DAY BONUS!!!

We're dropping in on our Julianne Moore-athon with a special look at her Emmy-winning portrayal of Sarah Palin in the 2012 HBO film Game Change!

Join in as we discuss our favorite election movies, Palin's post-2008 career, other HBO ripped-from-the-headlines movies, and our memories of the 2008 campaign.

Plus: Could an Alaskan become president? How did the real people feel about this movie? Should we be rating romances that are essentially just true? And, most importantly, what is Sarah Palin's hockey team?

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Next week: Safe (1995)

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Key sources and links for this episode:

• Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin (2010)
• Bossypants by Tina Fey (2011)
• “The ‘Palin Effect’ in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election” by Jonathan Knuckey, Political Research Quarterly (2012)
• Alessandra Stanley's 2012 New York Times review of Game Change
• "Celebrity" ad by John McCain
• Paris Hilton's response to the McCain "Celebrity" ad
• Playlist of Tina Fey's Palin sketches on SNL