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""Frost/Nixon""

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Anonymous Lugash said...

I am Lugash.

Steve was right on the money that the newspapers are going to start pumping out Kenya stories. Here's one about an American priest who spoke out about the corruption and thuggery in Kenya. It's long(5 pages) and ran on the top of the website.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-kaiser8-2009feb08,3,7893210.story?page=1

I am Lugash.

2/7/09, 5:10 PM

Anonymous SFG said...

Jon Stewart has authors on sometimes...

2/7/09, 9:51 PM

Anonymous Wanderer said...

I really came away from the theater after seeing F/N more sympathetic to Nixon than when I walked in.

I don't think this was the aim of the producers, writers, director, etc., so I'm not sure how that happened.

2/8/09, 12:43 AM

Anonymous simon said...

Like SFG said, I guess The Daily Show is where you get your middlebrow chat these days.

2/8/09, 5:35 AM

Anonymous I am not Lugash said...

Conan is no doubt capable of having more cerebral interviews but I think he would actually loathe to do them. He seems to revel in that self-deprecatory, goofy, slap stick style of interview he uses with celebrities. I imagine he would be bored to death if he had to constantly maintain the composure required for a more serious talk show like Charlie Rose.

2/8/09, 6:49 AM

Anonymous gene berman said...

This is off the "talk show" topic but bears on Nixon and his perception by the public.

Without a doubt, Nixon had tendencies most would characterize as "paranoid." But, from dim (youth and lack of interest in politics), I remember Nixon being demeaned regularly even before he was involved in national politics.
I think it may have stemmed from the fact that he prosecuted (and convicted) Alger Hiss. And, for many years, the left maintained that Hiss had been "set up" or framed for one reason or another andf that Nixon was the evil genius behind that miscarriage of justice. Is it paranoia when they're really out to get you?

2/8/09, 8:13 AM

Anonymous SKT said...

I know Conan is Harvard educated, but he's more "nerdy" than "witty". He's also ultra-liberal as is David Letterman.

I'm personally a big fan of Jay Leno, just because he makes fun of the liberals at least as much as he does the conservatives.

2/8/09, 8:37 AM

Blogger Glaivester said...

Wanderer - yu know, I saw parts of Angles in America on HBO when I was in graduate school. I came away with an admiration of Roy Cohn, who was by far the most likeable character in the miniseries.

2/8/09, 9:59 AM

Blogger James Kabala said...

I remember when Stewart (and Kilborn before him) had mainly celebrity guests and someone from the political/intellectual world was a rare treat. That started to change somewhere around 2002, though, and Colbert has had mainly author guests since he started.

I agree wuth not-Lugash about Conan.

2/8/09, 10:58 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Steve Allen, the first Tonight Show host, was a wit, a musician, and a rather earnest intellectual who wrote a shelf-full of books."

Steve Allen was one of a kind. Witty, sharp as a tack, and a natural comic. For such a serious person, he was a master of the absurd.
-- Victoria

2/8/09, 10:43 PM

Anonymous Reg Cæsar said...

Smart people no longer spend the midwatch in front of the TV. We have the Internet now.

2/9/09, 12:20 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jack Paar's Tonight Shows were more like the Charlie Rose Show than today's Tonight [...] you've got to imagine a smart Harvard boy like Conan O'Brien sometimes regrets he wasn't born three or four decades earlier and could have the range of topics that a David Frost was allowed to pursue.

There's some evidence from O'Brien's work on The Simpsons that he is well aware of this. See, e.g., episodes from his time on the writing staff where clips from Krusty the Clown's show from the early 1960s were shown with folks like George Meany and Robert Frost as guests, drawing a sharp contrast with the tacky children's entertainment the show has become in "our" day.

2/9/09, 6:28 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The strange fact is that Robert Altman's excellent Nixon pic (the best of the bunch) 'Secret Honor' has been totally ieclipsed and ignored by history.
Philip Baker Hall pulls off a virtuoso performance as Nixon as a broken man (shades of the Hitler's bunker in Berlin), in a dramatic monologue which only has the stage props of a desk, tape-recorder, loaded revolver and bottle of whisky.
Baker-Hall rants and raves in an excellent portrayal of a man in aute mental distress and the gun and bottle are always at hand.

2/10/09, 1:44 AM

Blogger albertosaurus said...

I'm a bit surprised that no one seems to have commented on the choice of Michael Sheen to play Frost.

Sheen is famous for playing werewolves. Indeed the only other thing I can remember him being in was the TV series Rome where he played Nero. As I remember he brought a good bit of werewolf sensibility to his portrayal of Nero.

I suppose if this flic had been made a few years earlier they would have gotten Bela Lugosi.

2/10/09, 8:01 AM

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