That""s the issue that should be pushed.Betsy: First push the man, then the issue.Senator Palantine is a dynamic man, an intelligent, interesting, fresh, fascinating...Tom: Forgot sexy.Betsy:...man.I did not forget sexy.Tom: Listen to what you""re saying.You sound like you""re selling mouthwash.Betsy: We are selling mouthwash.Tom: Are we authorized to do that?As Tom routinely flirts with Betsy, she notices that a taxicab driver in his car at the curb outside stares at them - with cold, piercing eyes.She misses, causing him to calmly respond:You""re losing your eye.You used to be able to pitch better than that.To entice her to stay as one of the paper""s few quality writers/reporters that has enough smarts to cover the Earl Williams case, he pretends that his only other writer capable of doing the job, Sweeney, is at the hospital tending to his wife having a baby: "Everything happens to me...The apes could have switched their baby with one stolen from a zoo - or perhaps a circus." Breck played an old videocassette of the recommendations made by the Commission to the then US President, when Cornelius"" and Zira""s baby was ordered to be put to death (and the parents sterilized), to alter history.The first part of the film took place at the same time asThe Bourne Ultimatum (2007).Again, the story (co-written by director Tony Gilroy) was based upon the Robert Ludlum and Eric Van Lustbader novels.It also evoked such slapstick comedy classics as Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton films, the Keystone Kops, Chaplin""sModern Times (1936), the Marx Brothers""Duck Soup (1933), and more recently the Bob Hope comedies of he 1940s.