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...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 on DVD as Frost Nixon: The Original Watergate Interviews) are essential evocations...
...producer and celebrity more than a wit, Frost quickly antagonized some of the major funnymen of his generation. Peter Cook, of the Beyond the Fringe comedy quartet, called him "the bubonic plagiarist" for performing a similar impression of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan similar to Cook's at Cambridge. Many of the Monty Python troupe had worked for Frost on earlier shows, and in the sketch "Timmy Williams Coffee Time" Eric Idle played Frost as a gladhander preening for TV crews while ignoring the plaints of a recently widowed friend. Pythonite John Cleese, on the radio show I'm Sorry...
...also to do justice to the show and do something new and fresh. I think that’s very much what we’re doing.”To add to the show’s freshness, the Players sought out the help of professional set painter Peter Miller. Miller led two workshops, the first on set design and the second on set painting. “He taught us very practical approaches, like how to consider different perspectives in the theatre, how to consider color, and how to go about rendering your set design concept...
...hope it’s not too embarrassing for Stanley,” said Peter A. Hall, a professor of European studies. “He’s a very modest man; I’m sure the event will be excruciating...
...This “energy from dirt” technology—which can be implemented using local materials—developed from the research of Peter R. Girguis, a professor of organismic and evolutionary biology...