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...
Dec 4, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Here’s a link to my radio interview with TNN colleague Robert Nedelkoff – regarding FROST/NIXON.
Dec 3, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
One of my favorite times of the year is when more of the Nixon documents and tapes are released. Where there isn’t anything earthshattering, or history changing about the disclosures, the releases do provide deeper nuanced understanding of Richard Nixon and his...
Dec 3, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The Cineplex serving us Western Shore bumpkins only books movies that have at least one superhero and several scenes in which things get blown up real good. So I haven’t seen Ron Howard’s cinematic Frost/Nixon yet, but what kind of a critic would I be if...
