If you mix the primary colors red, yellow and blue, the result is black. But this is no black comedy. Cagily, it asks big, brutal questions. Faust knew this. So, at every step of the long primary road, does Henry Burton.
Ideals are always in danger of being reduced to fairy tales.
They were who they were. Still, insiders had fun guessing who in the Clinton caravan matched the characters Klein created. Nearly everyone else is an acute comic exaggeration of a familiar friend or foe of Bill's. The Stantons, TIME has learned, are based on Bill and Hillary Clinton. For all her feminist executive briskness, she is in love with Jack, or with what she can help him become.