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NYT/F/N

he New York Times today reviews Frost/Nixon.  I think it's fair to say that Manohla Dargas, the paper's chief film critic, is not unadmiring; but she is decidedly less impressed, than many other reviewers: Stories of lost crowns lend themselves to drama, but not...

Ron Howard On The Daily Show

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...

HAK Weighs In On The Heavyweights

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 not understand the...

RS Reviews F/N

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 ingenious...

Win Ben Stein’s Scalp

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...

Nixon Still Has Enemies

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...