EntertainmentEntertainment ExtraDoes 'Recount' Need a Rewrite?Does 'Recount' Need a Rewrite?The Associated PressThe AP gathered a group of insiders who lived through the 2000 presidential election to solicit their reaction after watching the HBO movie 'Recount.' (May 22)[Notes:Film clip: Courtesy HBO] 36 days.That's how long America waited after Election Day 2000 to find out its next president.Those dramatic and intense events of 8 years ago are the subject of the new HBO movie "Recount."The movie largely takes the viewpoint of Ron Klain, Al Gore's former chief of staff -- played by Kevin Spacey. [Notes:Film clip]So just how "based on true events" is the movie?The AP gathered a group of people who lived through the recount to find out. ---SOT--- Mac Stipanovich -- advisor to Katherine HarrisIt's just unsettling. ... Maybe it was a little bit like somebody who was at Pearl Harbor watching a movie about Pearl Harbor. ---SOT--- Cory Tilley -- Then-Gov. Jeb Bush's Communicators Dir."It's a tense movie, tense movie. And I think it builds to a climax at the end and you know you follow it and you even forgotten some of those things that happened. ---SOT--- Sally Bradshaw -- Then-Gov. Jeb Bush's Chief of Staff "This was not fun. I mean, this was very serious, it was very intense. I think everybody felt the burden of what was going on both sides of the isles and you perceive it differently depending on what was going on, who your candidate was or your perspective or your place."--SOT--- Mark Herron -- Attorney who assisted Gore legal staff "They caught the concepts and they caught the sense of it, but again, they just kind of for the purposes of the drama put some things together that didn't happen that way." [Notes:Film clip] Recount premieres Sunday on HBO.Sandy Kozel, The Associated Press.

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