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Presidential I got a chance to see the new Frost/Nixon movie the other night with one of my favorite writers, JR Taylor . Before the film began we were talking about the debate I was working on (mentioned below), on whether Bush was the worst president of the last 50 years. JR wondered how anyone can say that--seeing as Carter was president during that time and no matter how bad things are now, the 70's were worse. I said I agreed and added that Nixon, Ford and Johnson were all pretty much teh suck too. After the film, which was directed by uber-liberal Ron Howard, I felt sort of differently about Nixon. The movie presented a pretty good defense ...
Weekend in Politics
Say Anything —
We have two films slated for the screen this weekend that are sure to spark debate. Ron Howard’s adaptation of Peter Morgan’s award-winning Frost/Nixon is, according to the director, some kind of reverse-pretzel-half-pipe-timeline commentary (read: ass-backwards logic) on George Bush’s presidency. Be that as it may, Frost/Nixon (at least the play, we’ll see about the movie) was a prophetic conviction of today’s journalistic standards.
Milk is, ostensibly, Sean Penn’s latest tour de force. He doesn’t play retarded which, ...
Brian Grazer On "Frost/Nixon," Bush's Damage, His Hair And More
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
"Frost/Nixon" opens today and is earning rave reviews, (see today's NYT, NYP and NYDN as examples) especially for Frank Langella and Michael Sheen, who reprise their roles from the stage version as Richard Nixon and David Frost battling it out in 1977's historic interview. Sam Rockwell, Kevin Bacon, Toby Jones, Oliver Platt, and Rebecca Hall also costar.
Originally a play penned by Peter Morgan while he waited to make "The Queen," the film is directed by Ron Howard, who saw it onstage in London and went after securing the rights. In the end the film was jointly produced by Howard's Imagine Entertainment partner Brian ...
Frost/Nixon Review
Oliver Willis —
This movie is about two dudes in a room. It shouldn’t work as a movie. The bulk of it is two men in a suburban living room sparring with each other. Boring… not! Because the two men are David Frost and Richard Nixon and as one of the characters says - this interview is the trial Nixon never had thanks to Gerald Ford’s pardon.
I’ve got to say that the movie is as good as everyone’s been saying. While I would like to have learned more about Michael Sheen’s David Frost (Sheen was great as Tony Blair in The Queen), he does a good communicating the mental ...
