FEAR NOT: this isn’t another column about Hillary Clinton fashioning herself into a pragmatic, centrist force to be reckoned with in 2008, or how America always loves a good makeover–be it a toned-down junior senator from New York, a slimmed-down homemaker currently under house arrest, or a “big fat actress” looking to jump-start her career on Showtime.

The real story that bears watching is why Hollywood, after treating the former first lady rather unceremoniously throughout the last decade, is all of sudden enamored by the thought of a Clinton candidacy–so much so that one network is willing to put a pseudo-President Hillary on prime-time television.