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SUNDAY MAY 252008 I ELEVISION THE PRESS ATLANTIC CITY NJ PAGE E3 TV Week I JM Sunday Manor: The Story 8 pm Animal Planet Their furry faces and energetic antics have brought three years of prime time fame to these small mammals whose longtime matriarch lower died last season This special narrated by Whoopi Goldberg chron icles life and death Monday Movie Preview 8 pm WPHL TV17 Sometimes the trailer seems better than the film it's teasing To celebrate the craft of the theatrical preview this awards pro gram honors the winners in a variety of categories Jri i I "A Wednesday McCullough: Painting With 7pm HBO As a young man David McCullough planned to paint portraits But this documentary co pro duced by Tom Hanks shows how McCullough has used words instead to bring to life historical figures Saturday DC 9pm TruTV or 23 days in 2002 random shootings in Virginia and Maryland ter rorized the region The capture of shooters John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo ended the killings but notthe ques tions of what prompted the spree This special spotlights the story of Muhammad's ex wife Mildred including inter views with her and the couple's adult children Nielsen ratings Prime time viewership in millions compiled by Nielsen Media Research for May 12 to 18 1 (Wednesday) ox 2486 2 (Tuesday) ox 2477 3 with the (Monday) ABC 1847 4 Crime Scene CBS 1806 5 with the (Tuesday) ABC 1699 HBO photo Ron Klain (Kevin Spacey) right and Michael Whouley (Denis Leary) are members of then Vice President Al team looking to figure out electoral mess in the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election in HBO's film MIMI i i jr I 1 1 ZZ a When the presidency hung in the balance Power politics The men (and woman) who bring cast of real characters to life I WiW Hfi' I Denis Leary as Michael Whouley Al Gore's national field director MKgJyy dkl nYv Laura Dern as lorida Secretary of State Katherine Harris SmBa Bob Balaban as Ben Ginsberg national counsel to the Bush Cheney cam paign in 2000 fU Tom Wilkinson as James Baker III former Secretary of State for President George HW Bush iS W1 (ms John Hurt as Warren Christopher former Secretary of State for President Bill Clinton By MATT HURWITZ or The Associated Press LOS ANGELES These days the expression sounds more like a nickname for the latest con testant racking up votes on "American But eight years ago it was all about not getting a on tV vote for thousands of frustrated lorida res idents whose ballot premieres ing didn't count at 9 tonight HBO takes us on HBO behind the scenes of that 2000 presidential election in the ambitious docudrama premiering tonight with an all star cast that includes Kevin Spacey Laura Dern Tom Wilkinson and Denis Leary or weeks after the election the Democratic and Republican parties each fought to assure a clear vote count in lorida the last state to weigh in on a very tight race for the White House between Democrat Al Gore and Republican George Bush The film portrays the efforts of both camps to tilt the scales one seemingly fairly and one not in order to give their candidate the greatest chance ol winning a really important story to tell and one told in a way more of a thriller than it is a history says Spacey who portrays Ron Klain the former Gore chief of staff who takes up the fair election cause for the then vice president The film plays out over a 36 day period walking viewers through what took place from lection Day to the date the race was finally decided worked very hard to make it as historically accurate as possi explains director Jay Roach better known for zany comedies such as and the meant to capture the essence of what actually went on within the state of lorida within that limited time frame" Adds writer Danny Strong: felt we have to take you inside the sausage fac tory Because if we don't look at what happened it may never change" To get the facts straight Strong not only studied four respected books on the sub ject but during a three week span interviewed more than 40 participants many of whom arc portrayed in the film including the real Klain and Baker have a journal ism background so I instead focused on their feelings and what their experience was to get a sense of how it affected them as people" the writer explains Director Roach also sought to portray the characters in the film as real people to help) the audience get inside their experience really tried to humanize (my character) and keep a balance so it was never a says Dern who plays lorida Secretary of State Katherine Harris Because she also held the title of co chair to lorida campaign Harris found herself at the center of the elec tion storm "She was very torn less by morality and more by Dern suggests Main himself was well known to the politically involved Spacey but the actor found that he like many Americans actually knew very little about what had taken place in lorida As for his charac ter Spacey attempts to portray again the emotional roller coaster Klain went through during the process Leary who plays national field director Michael Whouley says the message of the film is simple: always astounded by how many people walk around and say 'Oh 1 don't really pay any attention to I have a lot of relatives in Ireland and not only do they know what goes on in Europe but they eyeball what we do over here" rec: Ltc journey You mess with the Lohan Mom Dina dishes on new show 1 111 Bthe cand IRZjiL' Associated Press photo by Louis Lanzano Actress Ali Lohan and mom Dina Lohan headline a new reality series on After other daughter Lind well publicized troubles think the fami matriarch would have learned better by now By VERNE GAY Newsday 1 NEW Why why WHY? You 're the mother of one of the most hounded people on the planet (Lindsay Lohan or Lilo to her bounders) And yet here you are: Enabling your 14 year old daughter Ali to pursue a similar white hot career track and for added measure you have just opened up your house in Long Island's North Merrick to a TV network so that the rest of the world can look inside unny how the same question always seems to come up with Dina Lohan in Manhattan recently to field questions from some of those same paparazzi who have made her life so (avowedly) miserable and to promote her eight part show that bows Memorial Day And you be surprised to learn she has an answer "Initially if you'd asked me two years ago we do something like this' it would definitely be a no I never even thought reality (TV) would be in exis tence now But there are so many rumors about us and I feel that in the power seat right now so that I'm able as a mom to say this is our life check us out and move on so we can be normal" Another one of those annoying questions: Why tempt fate a second time with your youngest daughter Living Lohan also follows Mom and Ali to Las Vegas where the aspiring singer records another album) 1 told Ali a singer and you want to be an artist but you because (the paparazzi) are going to trip you But with any career like me telling my son you play lacrosse because going to get Ali who was also on the press junket does for the record seem like a nice normal teen who genuine ly loves her mother (She would often glance at her mom while answering questions) our manager and like any other mother in the world she's trying to help her kids fulfill their she said on tv premieres at 10:30 pm Monday on URNITURE i SURSIDE Aer'Ck VxZ VO dV Lr wrawuBA5 Shines Points I ifef fis Junin 1 lOiHOi 1 sa Ir at 21 1V J'j JVffJJKf I tb MVk' iiMIiw "Vb JV Mi iSrM WE.