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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...