Can Nichols and on-again-off-again partner, screenwriter Elaine May, create a series of events more shocking and lurid than the current state of affairs? Could Emma Thompson, with all her Shakespearean training, ever even hope to paint a portrait of a first lady as complex and enigmatic as the cold-hearted Tammy Wynette currently forcing the president to sleep on the couch? Can Billy Bob out-slime Carville? This will truly be a battle of the network stars. Save us the aisle seats.

words
James Bong

pictures
Terry Colon