Feb 23, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Last night Frank Langella lost the Best Actor competition in the Academy Awards to Sean Penn. But the veteran’s sterling performance in Frost/Nixon is still gaining accolades, not least from those who knew and worked with the 37th President. This weekend the...
Feb 23, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The intrepid Detroit News has tracked down the automobile registrations of the eight members of the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry appointed last week to save the American automobile industry. The paper also checked out the auto info of the ten White...
Feb 22, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Socks, who served as the White House Cat from 1992-2001, died on Friday near his waterfront home in Hollywood, Maryland. The former First Feline was believed to have been twenty, although there are some discrepancies involving his date and place of birth. He had...
Feb 21, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
On today”s Daily Beast, critic Lee Siegel hopes against hope that the Members of the Academy will have the wisdom to reward and encourage real acting —as opposed to camera-aided impersonation— by choosing Frank Langella as Best Actor. Whereas Mickey...
Feb 21, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
An AFP story out of Hollywood takes a look at the odds that bookmakers are offering as to what film or actor or actress will win the “Golden Dude,” as Robin Williams tearfully dubbed his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor when he won for Good Will Hunting....
Feb 19, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
John W. Dean’s latest column at findlaw.com concerns Frost/Nixon. That’s not especially surprising in itself. But what is downright strange is that Dean has not seen Ron Howard’s film or Peter Morgan’s play because, he says,...
