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...directed his paper's contribution to exposing Watergate, the great political scandal, the constitutional crisis that brought down Richard Nixon. But just now Ben Bradlee is starstruck. He has seen All the President's Men, a new $8.5 million film about Watergate, the Post and Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, the two young reporters whom Bradlee had guided and frequently defended...
Skeptics pointed out the conventional wisdom: no American political film has made money since Mr. Smith Goes to Washington almost four decades ago. There must have been some temptation to use that appealing film as a model, turning Woodward and Bernstein into updated Jimmy Stewarts?naive, idealistic, full of puff about democratic ideals...
...certain amount of inevitable idealization taking place, both of the models and their trade. But, as Ben Bradlee has observed, "the irony of Watergate is that Richard Nixon made us all famous?the people he most despised. He made us mini-household words, and in the case of Woodward and Bernstein, real folk heroes." (Well, sort of.) The moviemakers were particularly on guard against showing the "Woodstein team," as they came to be known in Washington, as anything other than what they were?hungry reporters desperately eager for a break. But the film will augment what they have since become...
...tried screenwriting and proved adept at that as well. A suave addition to Hollywood society, he was briefly engaged to Actress Joanne Woodward; she and Husband Paul Newman are now among his closest friends. His backstage knowledge was only exceeded by his familiarity with backstairs politics. The Best Man, his well-made melodrama about infighting at a political nominating convention, opened on Broadway in 1960 and ran for 520 performances...
...Congress in New York State's bedrock Republican 29th District. It was a kamikaze assignment. Vidal advocated such positions as federal aid to education and diplomatic recognition of Communist China. With the help of Eleanor Roosevelt, a Hudson Valley neighbor and friend, and such show-business celebrities as Woodward and Newman, Vidal staged a surprisingly effective campaign. He lost by 25,000 votes (out of a total 183,000 cast) but outpolled every Democratic House candidate in the district since 1910. He also ran ahead of Presidential Candidate John F. Kennedy...