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...Frank Langella would be proud of such a performance. But this display of mood-altering confession and self-justification was the real Nixon, in his TV marathon with Frost in 1977, three years after he left the White House in disgrace. That four-part joust, still the highest-rated interview show in U.S. history, was the inspiration for Peter Morgan's London and Broadway play starring Langella as Nixon and Michael Sheen as Frost. Langella and Sheen (and Morgan) repeat their roles in the Ron Howard movie version opening today. Both the movie and the interviews (now available...
...technicality, until he realizes that this isn't a courtroom, it's a TV show. Like any politician, Nixon was an actor - a bad actor, to be sure, but a great bad actor, in that he let the camera's surgical close-ups reveal more than he wanted to display, and sometimes the exact opposite of what he was trying to say. The performance is infuriating and hilarious, or unbearably poignant, depending on your politics. Either way, it's stirring, depleting drama...
Bush, Laura •Christmas ornament celebrating congressional resolution to impeach husband of is deemed inappropriate for display on White House tree by •cooking of is insulted to the face of by husband of •more time in Crawford, Texas, is not about to be spent...
...getting the foul. After hitting the free throw, Harvard had a 23-point lead and was home free.Tay finished the game with nine points and nine assists. Senior Katie Rollins added eight points and six boards to the cause.Its sustained intensity helped the Crimson put its transition offensive on display.“There’s a method to our madness,” Delaney-Smith said.The win indicates that Harvard may be hitting its stride, which comes as good news as the team faces five games over the next two weeks.“We are really starting...
...Governor," whose popularity and approval ratings have eclipsed even Jeb's (though Crist calls Bush Florida's "greatest governor"), would want to move from the governor's mansion of the nation's new bellwether state to an opposition backbench on Capitol Hill. But Crist's national aspirations were on display this year when John McCain courted him as a possible running mate, and the governor's first term ends, coincidentally, after the 2010 election. Even if Crist decided to run for a second gubernatorial term that year, he would hardly welcome having the spotlight turned on Bush...