F/N: The Perfect Flick For Nixmas

Last week the marketing offensive for F/N finally embraced The Colbert Report.  Host Steven Colbert had originally thought the movie was about RN teaming up with Jack Frost to save Christmas. He was disabused of this notion by his guest Kevin Bacon, who plays...

Autre temps, autre moeurs

In today’s WAPO Eli Saslow writes a profile of Jon Favreau — at 27 the youngest person ever to be named head of the White House speechwriting shop. This is certainly a more dignified appearance than the last time Mr. Favreau surfaced in the blatts.  But...

James Reston Jr On “Frost/Nixon”

The January issue of Smithsonian magazine features an article by James Reston Jr., whose book The Conviction Of Richard Nixon was an important source for the play and film Frost/Nixon (and who was portrayed in the play as the onstage narrator of the proceedings,...

The Season To Be Jolly

Wonkette has just posted —with the usual snarky commentary under the headline “Richard Nixon Just Called To Say he Loves You”— a tape of RN’s conversation with the White House Operator on 25 December 1971.  It was, of course, RN’s...

Caroline Is The New Sarah

The New York Times’ coverage of Caroline Kennedy’s first outing as a Senate candidate  can hardly be what the Ms. Kennedy or her supporters had in mind. In fact, the story’s headline —In Appearance Upstate, Kennedy Says Little— is really...