Sep 12, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Now that Frost/Nixon is comfortably settled in the racks of your local Blockbuster and Hollywood Video, and the touring production with Stacy Keach has run its course, Peter Morgan’s play has started to be produced in repertory theater, with the Austin...
Sep 11, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
As I write, either on TV Land or the Hallmark Channel, the inevitable strains of Johnny Mandel’s “Suicide Is Painless” are beginning, the chopper is coming down, and the men and women of the 4077th are getting ready for another session of OR drama...
Sep 11, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In July, in response to a post about Neil Armstrong’s famous first footstep onto the Moon on 20 July 1969, Barbara Nelson posted a comment about a photograph her husband took that same day of a soldier’s boots leaving their own distinctive prints in the...
Sep 9, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
As defined by Wikipedia, a Morton’s Fork is “a choice between two equally unpleasant alternatives.” In the health care debate, this is the choice between government run health care, or corporate run health care. We progressives like to call this choice — reform...
Sep 8, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Here’s a clever bit of editing by Nick Dorazio, a citizen frusted because his Congressman wouldn’t hold a real time town hall on the subject of health care. So he took the raw material of an old episode of Dragnet, in which Jack Webb (as Sgt. Joe Friday)...
Sep 8, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In Sunday’s Boston Herald, the inimitable Howie Carr —the longtime bane of Kennedy and scourge of Kerry— examined the odds and the consequences of Joe Kennedy running for his uncle’s Senate seat. Apparently the former congressman has renounced...
