Senators pull plug on filming for new HBO series about lobbyists

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Senate leaders have told Hollywood heavyweights George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh to stop shooting behind-the-scenes footage in the Capitol's corridors for use in "K Street, " their experimental new HBO series about Washington lobbyists.

Film crews for the show, which is being produced and directed by Clooney and Soderbergh, have been in the Capitol shooting footage, capturing images of some of the Senate's best known faces, including Arizona's John McCain, New York's Hillary Clinton and Utah's Orrin Hatch.

The show, which debuts Sunday, is a documentary-style series that bills itself as a "fusion of reality and fiction." Named after the Washington street where many lobbying firms are headquartered, it stars real political consultants and lobbyists, including James Carville, Mary Matalin and Michael Deaver.

A crew from the series, including Clooney, was seen shooting footage at a Democratic presidential debate in Baltimore Tuesday


http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/09/11/hbo/index.html


SO IT IS CARVILLE ON ALL THOSE HBO PREVIEWS!!!

I can't wait to see this series in action, should be pretty good, and it's from the more "Progressive" side of Hollywood.

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1. I guess these guys didn't lobby generously enough

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2. Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, and George Voinovich, R-Ohio

-- sent a letter to producers of the show, telling them Senate rules "strictly prohibit the use of Capitol and Senate space for any commercial or profit-making purpose."

Unless of course you're part of the BFEE and are making huge profits off of an illegal war.