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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 Fort...

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...

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...

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 Rourke's...

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. Slumdog...

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, "scheduling" conflicts haven't permitted...

Wonkette paid a visit to Harold Ickes --- the man who already owned the f bomb when Rahm Emanuel was still in short pants. The son of FDR's distinguished (and famously cantankerous) Interior Secretary, Mr. Ickes was a successful labor lawyer before becoming Deputy...

On 18 February 2008, the first edition of The New Nixon was uploaded.  The rest is history.  

Our once and future colleague Father Taylor recently linked to the results of C-SPAN's most recent survey of historians regarding the reputations and legacies of American Presidents. The sixty-five survey participants included an interesting mix of academics and...