A very important and excellent scene was cut from the many TV and VHS versions of the film. That is where just after Sidney does his walk through NY, he goes to a experimental film and meets Nan, apparently at random. The vignette is a wonderful send up of Greenwich village types and without this scene we don't know that Nan is not an established lover, but a sudden free love intimate. At least apparently. Can anyone tell me if this is restored in the DVD version? One of the finest scripts of sardonic comedy, certainly on a par with 'Dr Strangelove' and 'the assassination bureau'. The anamatronic and unkillable CEO of the phone company is a deeply frightening perception of the bland, machinelike, self-righteous and perhaps unstoppable movement to box in the human being. Of course with today's technology we won't see a wire coming out of our president's shoe.
Review of The President's Analyst
