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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...

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...

Here's a link to my radio interview with TNN colleague Robert Nedelkoff - regarding FROST/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...

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 I let such...

Odetta died last night in New York.  She was 77.  After suffering for several years with heart and lung problems, she entered Lenox Hill Hospital at the end of October for treatment of kidney failure.   Her manager, Douglas Yeager, said that her hope of singing at...

Alex Pareene is 23.  He was just 20 when he dropped out of NYU to take over the political blog, Wonkette.com, not long after its founding writer Ana Marie Cox departed. Following 18 months covering the Beltway scene in that era of the second Internet boom (now feeling...

This afternoon, TNN's own David R. Stokes is substituting for host Don Kroah from 4 pm until 7 pm EST at Washington's WAVA (105.1 FM, simulcast from 5 pm at 780 AM, and also streamed live at the station's site, www.wava.com). At about 5:15, I will appear on the show...