Keach, Cox, Zelnick Discuss “Frost/Nixon”

Yesterday’s Boston Globe had an amusing op-ed in which Alan Cox and Stacy Keach (the Frost and Nixon, respectively, of the touring production of Peter Morgan’s play) and Bob Zelnick, the gray eminence of David Frost’s researching team, discussed the...

2.2.68

In 1968, February 2nd was a Friday — the day, forty-one years ago, on which RN officially declared his candidacy for POTUS.   In RN, he wrote: “I began my second campaign for the presidency with a press conference on the afternoon of February 2, 1968, in...

“Abuse Of Power” Questioned

The New York Times site has just posted a very thought-provoking article (to appear in tomorrow’s edition) about recent charges by several historians that Abuse Of Power, the 1997 volume of transcripts of White House tape conversations transcribed and edited by...

President Langella: Alone In The Dressing Room

The most recent issue of Newsweek featured its annual Oscar Roundtable, moderated by the magazine’s David Ansen and Ramin Setoodeh. The participants this year included Anne Hathaway, Sally Hawkins, Robert Downey Jr., Brad Pitt, Mickey Rourke, and Frank Langella,...

Taking the Heat

During the 1973 energy crisis, RN took criticism for his habit of running the fireplace and the air conditioning at the same time.    And so it is worth noting this item from today’s New York Times: The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full...