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yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 1/4/2009

Frost/Nixon

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It seems to me that I’m a Peter Morgan fan. I liked The Last King of Scotland , I liked The Queen , and I enjoyed Frost/Nixon a great deal. But per Kevin Drum and Becks it’s important for people to understand that this film is terrible history. Not just in the sense that, like ...

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online-literature.com - 1/3/2009

Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost

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dailykos.com - 1/5/2009

Frost/Nixon

— dailykos.com — Frost: Are you really saying the President can do something illegal? Nixon: I'm saying that when the President does it, that means it's not illegal! Frost: ...I'm sorry? To try to put yourself in the environment of Frost/Nixon , imagine it's ... (more) Frost/Nixon

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Lawyers, Guns and Money — ... Yes. Actually, I would take a position diametrically opposed to Becks's; basically, if historical accuracy would make for worse art, then the artist pretty much has a responsibility to ignore it. Of course, given that I haven't seen the play and have an extreme Ron Howard aversion Becks may well be right about the effects of historical inaccuracy in the specific case of Frost/Nixon; I certainly can't say. But, for example, I remember being extremely annoyed that so much discussion about Jim Sheridan's largely forgotten but superb In The Name of ...