Chris Matthews and Kevin Spacey, 2010. (Kris Connor/Getty Images) Opening your political Washington movie in front of a media-political Washington audience? Pretty much the definition of "tough crowd." That was the room that "Casino Jack" faced Wednesday at an E Street Cinema screening of the Kevin Spacey-as-Jack Abramoff flick, sponsored by the Creative Coalition, with faces like Andrea Mitchell, Jane Harman and Ben Bradlee in the crowd. You didn't have to be a Pulitzer-winning expert on the Byzantine schemes of the disgraced former superlobbyist to wince at the Hollywood embroidery and hyperbole. Rep. Bob Ney getting handcuffed in the halls of Congress? Doesn't work that way. Abramoff's now-defunct Signatures declared "the best restaurant in town"? Don't recall that. They even botched the cliched insult: It's not "Washington is Hollywood with ugly faces," it's "Washington is Hollywood for ugly people"! Possibly the room's favorite groaner: The rooftop happy hour where
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