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Richard Nixon is telling David Frost about the day in March 1973 when he realized he had to fire his chief domestic advisor, John Ehrlichman, for abetting the Watergate cover-up - or, rather, for being fingered by the press for doing it. Tears glimmer in the ex-President's eyes, then he closes them to contain the pain as he staggers through his reciting of the conversation. "I said, 'You know, John, when I went to bed last night,' I said, 'I hoped,' I said, 'I hoped, I almost prayed I wouldn't wake up this morning.'" He grimaces...
...Richard Nixon, no less than David Frost, was a TV personality. Every U.S. president from John Kennedy on has had to be one: the nation's talk-show host, defining its agenda and character. (Franklin D. Roosevelt created the same niche on radio with his Fireside Chats.) TV stardom is a matter of connecting with the masses by peddling an agreeable personality. That's a challenge for which the brainy, devious Nixon was ill-suited...
...lampoons all of the relevant points of discussion within the past year. It’s amazing that the things Gilbert and Sullivan were making fun of 100 years ago are still relevant today.”To enhance this darker political message, Morris and music director David H. Miller ’11 decided to include a deleted song, “Fold Your Flapping Wings.” Infrequently performed, the song was cut early in the show’s initial run because reviewers found it too bleak for a light comic operetta...
...Nicole Kidman), an upper-class Brit, gets wrapped up in a caper when she treks to her husband’s cattle ranch Down Under on the eve of World War II only to find him dead. Powerful cattle mogul King Carney (Bryan Brown) and his villainous lackey Fletcher (David Wenham) have consolidated a monopoly on the Australian beef industry just in time to win exclusive rights to feed Australian troops.Luckily for Lady Ashley, she’s got Wolverine—uh, I mean Hugh Jackman—on her side. He plays a rough-and-tumble Australian cattle...
...proves that the mice are healither and live longer without serious secondary consequences, then...it is safe to say that having these mice will prove a principle that humans could be justified” in seeking an anti-aging elixir. The study was performed in the lab of David A. Sinclair of Harvard Medical School, who has done much work with the protein, SIRT1, and who co-authored the study...