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The Who’s On First For Kennedy Center Award
(Politics breeds strange box fellows: flanking the Presidential Box at the Kennedy Center at last night's Kennedy Center Awards: from left, Twyla Tharp, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, Barbra Streisand, Morgan Freeman, George Jones, The First Lady, President Bush.)...
A One Time Only Invention
In today's New York Times, veteran science correspondent William A. Broad previews two new books that combine to do some rewriting ---or at least some major revision--- of the atomic history. The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and its Proliferation...
Is That A Threat Or A Promise?
The AP reported Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s comment about the the possibility of his cousin Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg being appointed to completeHillary Clinton's Senate term and running for the seat in 2010: Robert Kennedy said the family would come out en masse for...
12/7/08
From RN: In December 1941, thanks to the recommendations of one of y professors from Duke, David Cavers, I was offered a job with the Office of Price Administration in Washington. The pay was only $3,200 a year, not nearly as much as Pat and I were making together...
Is Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg’s Hat In The Ring?
When reports began to circulate a few weeks ago that President-elect Obama was likely to name Sen. Hillary Clinton to run the State Department, there was much discussion about who would be named by New York Gov. David Paterson to replace her. The state's attorney...
More on Chris Wallace At “Frost/Nixon” Screening
In today's Washington Times Douglas MacKinnon, who served in the White House under Reagan and the first George Bush, and also at the Pentagon, discusses Chris Wallace's challenge to the panel at the Frost/Nixon preview in Washington earlier this week. He makes an...
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...
RN (OK, Langella) Is One Of 2008’s Most Fascinating
Tonight on ABC tonight, Frank Langella, thanks to his performance as RN in Frost/Nixon, is on the 2008 roster of Barbara Walters' annual selection of the year's 10 Most Fascinating People. To be sure, the Langella oeuvre is extensive and impressive. But there is no...