Dec 15, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
“Tell me about the loneliness of Good, He-Man. Is it equal to the loneliness of Evil?” – Frank Langella as Skeletor (in a line he personally wrote), to Dolph Lundgren in He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe In a comment to my post about the...
Dec 14, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
This review by Philip Kennicott takes note of how, as I noted earlier at TNN, Ron Howard’s film emphasizes the “giant-killer” theme – though Kennicott emphasizes the similarity to the Shakespearean treatment of history rather than the horror...
Dec 12, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Today came word that John Harris, the chief of staff to Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich who was arrested on Tuesday with his boss, has resigned his position. His attorney, Jim Sotos, stated that his client was taking this action “because it was the right thing to...
Dec 12, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Avery Robert Dulles, who was elevated to the Cardinalate in 2001, died this morning in the Jesuit Infirmary at Fordham University Hospital in New York. For the last twenty years he was a Professor of Religion and Society at Fordham. He was 90. Cardinal Dulles was a...
Dec 12, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
As President-Elect Barack Obama moves toward the transition finish line, he has been busy putting his cabinet together, collecting what is now routinely referred to as a “team of rivals.” But this may be more than a reference to the fact that he is trying to avoid...
Dec 11, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The difference in overall tone between Peter Morgan’s play Frost/Nixon and the film version directed by Ron Howard is noteworthy. The action of the play, right up to the point where David Frost begins to interview President Nixon, is light in tone, frequently...
