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LA Times Today: Why Tom Perrotta brought back ‘Election’s’ Tracy Flick

LA Times Today: Why Tom Perrotta brought back ‘Election’s’ Tracy Flick

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In 1999, Reese Witherspoon played the ambitious 16-year-old Tracy Flick, who ran for class president in the film “Election.”

But over the years, and in the wake of the #MeToo movement, the author who created that character says his depiction of her nagged at him.

Author Tom Perrotta joined us to talk about his sequel to “Election,” a book titled, “Tracy Flick Can’t Win.”

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