A conversation about the film "Frost/Nixon"

with Frank Langella and Ron Howard
in Movies, TV & Theater, History
on Friday, December 5, 2008 * * * * *

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Part one of a conversation about the film "Frost/Nixon" with director Ron Howard and actor Frank Langella

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journalism
Richard Nixon
David Frost
Watergate

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    1. doodahdaze  01/23/2009 04:46 PM Report

      If you see the movie Mr. Mant, you will see that you are mistaken; about the movie that is.

    2. doodahdaze  12/12/2008 03:03 PM Report

      REMant, "re-broadcast the tapes". I like that idea.

    3. REMant  12/09/2008 12:07 AM Report

      I suppose there is precedence for these things in Greek tragedy and Shakespeare's histories, but then the likes of Creon and Henry IV were long gone and the reality forgotten. Nixon, Frost and their time is not. So I think it is pandering at best, and political moralizing at worst. Like Chaplin aping Hitler. I don't, btw, see conservative moviemakers doing shows about JFK's or Clinton's indiscretions. It seems to me TV started doing these "docu-dramas" to make bucks when they lost the ability to do anything else, and thanks to Oliver Stone and others, we now have all kinds of them from the sinking of the Titanic to the shooting of JFK to the crash of Flight 93, to Harvey Milk, etc. Personally I think Nixon made a lot of worse mistakes than covering up the burglaring of the Demo hq - the design of the space shuttle, wage and price controls, the bombing of North Vietnam, the invasion of Cambodia - the list is very long. But Watergate wasn't about covering up a burglary or even the burglary itself, it was about hubris, and revenge for Vietnam and probably anti-Communism. Nixon did indeed have an idea of the imperial presidency, but he wasn't and isn't alone. And anyone who saw David Frost at that time knows he was an even greater turkey than Nixon. The interviews were a circus and if anyone cares about them, then by all means re-broadcast the tapes of them, but don't write stupid plays with actors who don't look and sound anything like the originals, and make things up about it.