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...officers of the Harvard chapter notified 96 seniors of their eligibility for induction in mid-October. The initial group was chosen based on grades, difficulty of class work, and intellectual experience, according to chapter president and Leverett House Master Howard Georgi...
...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 on DVD as Frost Nixon: The Original Watergate Interviews) are essential evocations of a unique moment in American history - when the only President ever to resign his office sat down for his own TV inquisition. (See pictures of TIME...
...brilliant, conflicted men with something to prove: Nixon that he was a statesman, not a crook; Frost that he had the gravitas to bring a big man down. So how does that become a movie - one, moreover, that is essentially a making-of feature about a '70s TV show? Howard knew that to convey the particulars of what must seem like ancient history to younger viewers, he needed to move from the long-shot perspective of a play to the interviews' own visual style: alternating medium shots of Frost with blistering close-ups of Nixon. Thus, what was a pageant...
...Read TIME's 10 Questions for director Ron Howard...
VIDEO AT TIME.COM To watch a video interview with Ron Howard and to subscribe to the 10 Questions podcast on iTunes, go to time.com/10questions...