Aguilera is well on her way to becoming the post-teen-pop Cher, while Spears is, of course, currently touring the country's strip clubs she brings her own music and copies of Esquire and Rolling Stone, upon whose covers she appears nude, to sign for $20 a pop, table dance included. Simpson's currently knockin' 'em brain-dead on MTV she's proof enough that if you attended school for a single day in hopes of striking it rich, you wasted too much time. I also have made it a vow to finish by year's end my science project that proves that if combined into a single person, Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Mandy Moore might have some real talent. Granted, this is a thin idea for fleshing out a full-length review of a movie written in outline form, but bear with me 'tis the new year, and among my resolutions is taking seriously glib Hollywood product that exists solely to provide its stars all-expenses-paid trips to Prague, Venice and Berlin, among the myriad settings of Chasing Liberty, which appears to have been underwritten by the Travel Channel. Odds are Chasing Liberty will hit HBO before Election Day already, I hear, they're showing it on Air Force One and European-bound commercial flights.īut those of us interested (by which I mean barely interested, though compelled to feign curiosity in order to draw a paycheck) in the doings of pop culture's B-listers could ponder just what Chasing Liberty means in the career evolution of one Mandy Moore.

All life force drains as one considers the possibility that not only are there no good new ideas, but there were never any good old ones to begin with. Whenever you can compare one movie starring Mark Harmon as president to another starring Sinbad as government agent - and which is which is of no concern, is it? - there's really not much need to march on. You could, of course, dismiss it altogether, since it does seem to resemble a certain 1996 movie called First Kid, in which a 13-year-old president's son tries to ditch his Secret Service detail so he can fit in amongst his pals at prep school.

There are two options when discussing Chasing Liberty, in which pop star turned actress Mandy Moore plays a president's daughter named Anna Foster who wants some alone time, sans Secret Service, to go clubbing in Europe, hang with friends and lose her 18-year-old virginity to a Brit in his 20s who resembles the offspring of Hugh Grant and Alan Cumming (which, if you think about it, could happen).

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