By: E&P Staff Back from her latest book tour leave from The New York Times, Maureen Dowd reveals that as she looked around the room at Vanity Fair?s annual Oscar party in Los Angeles, it struck her that Bush aides resemble various nipped and tucked beauties of the silver screen: ?you see no furrowed brows, no regretful winces, no unflattering wrinkles, no admissions of imperfection, no qualms about puffing up what you really have, no visible signs of hard lessons learned, and no desire to confront reality in the mirror.?
And the Hollywood analogies just kept on coming:
?Who ever thought Dick Cheney and Mamie Van Doren would have so much in common??
?The White House is constantly trying to do laser resurfacing on its Iraq policy, to sandblast away the damage from its own mistakes. But its veneer may be beyond repair.?
?In Hollywood terms, we've reached an Indiana Jones crisis moment in our parlous protectorate. The cave is collapsing, the snakes are encroaching, the vehicles are exploding, the crushing ball is rolling down on us.?
?Even the U.S. envoy, Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, told The Los Angeles Times on Monday that the invasion of Iraq had opened a "Pandora's box" of tribal and religious fissures that could devour the region. His words evoked a harrowing image of the bad spirits swarming up the mountain in Disney's ?Fantasia? as Mussorgsky's ?Night on Bald Mountain? played.?
And finally: ?The Pentagon says it'll look once more at the death by friendly fire of the football player and Army Ranger Pat Tillman in Afghanistan, because the first three inquiries were tainted ? one more sad illustration of the administration's cynical attempt not to let anything get in the way of its heroic, and dermatologically plumped up, story line for America.?
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