Dec 5, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Last night, Frost/Nixon director Ron Howard appeared on The Daily Show for the customary six-and-a-half-minute interview. He spoke about how nearly everyone he met when he was researching the film felt obliged to do a really awful Nixon impression, and, to illustrate...
Dec 5, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In the Washington Post today, HAK provides a welcome alternative to the too well worn Team of Rivals trope by calling the President-Elect’s national security selections a Team of Heavyweights. Those who take the phrase “team of rivals” literally do...
Dec 5, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Tonight on ABC tonight, Frank Langella, thanks to his performance as RN in Frost/Nixon, is on the 2008 roster of Barbara Walters’ annual selection of the year’s 10 Most Fascinating People. To be sure, the Langella oeuvre is extensive and impressive. But...
Dec 4, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Frost/Nixon continues its triumphal progress through the review process. Among today’s entries: Peter Travers in Rolling Stone. After the now obligatory kudos to Frank Langella’s RN, Mr. Travers sends a shout out to the director: [Ron] Howard does his most...
Dec 4, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, the film critic whose face and voice (and thumb) were familiar to TV viewers for decades, has not been on the airwaves for several years, since a bout with thyroid cancer necessitated a jaw operation that robbed him of the ability...
Dec 4, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
While conducting a recent radio interview with Robert Nedelkoff, who since 1997 has worked on behalf of the Richard Nixon Foundation at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland, a caller asked us if we were trying to “rehabilitate” the 37th President of the...
