… not to find the identity of “Deep Throat,” but to decide the Best Watergate Movie.
Roger L. Simon
Blacklisting Myself Memoir of a Hollywood Apostate in the Age of Terror
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1. uranari:We’ll be watching it this weekend. Glad to learn Hollywood still has a few interesting minds left.
A disproportionate number of them live in one household though.
And the writer of the piece is writing a book on sushi and globalization. Yum.
Jun 7, 2005 - 2:20 pm 2. Kyda Sylvester:Dick is a seriously funny, clever movie. One of the best comedies of the 90’s (at the very least).
Did Sasha get it right? Was it superfically a spoof on ATPM but really a riposte to JFK? Is that what Sheryl had in mind?
Jun 7, 2005 - 2:20 pm 3. heather:Slightly off topic, but I want to congratulate all of you who contributed to the MOST INTELLIGENT speculation/conversion on why Amnesty International has been so outrageous (ie, $$$, and the lack thereof). Also, dropped in the middle, an explanation as to why all those lefty NGOs hate the Patriot Act…
You see, that is what is possible on blogs – and beyond the ability of the MSM.
Jun 7, 2005 - 10:27 pm 4. Buddy Larsen:Compliments to Sasha Issenberg for a really smart, informed, wide-ranging review.
Jun 8, 2005 - 5:09 am 5. SJ:>Did Sasha get it right? Was it superfically a spoof on ATPM but really a riposte to JFK? Is that what Sheryl had in mind?
Jun 8, 2005 - 10:44 am 6. Kyda Sylvester:Basically, the first thing we learned about politics was that politicians lie.
My awakening was the U2 incident (for you kids, U2 was a spy plane before it was a rock group). The president–Ike for gawds sake–lied to us. For me it was a shock (like the day you find out your parents aren’t perfect), but those were more innocent times.
Thank you for responding–how wonderful is this new media that it allows communication on this level–and the fascinating glimpse inside the creative process. And thanks for a gem of a movie.
(There was a bit more of this in the original screenplay, but it was too black for a studio to swallow. Often after seeing a movie, I’ve thought ‘now I want to see the film the writer actually wrote’. I’m betting you and Roger have thought the same from time to time.)
Jun 8, 2005 - 12:35 pm 7. Kyda Sylvester:I almost forgot…
I don’t know who was responsible for casting Dan Hedaya, but it was a genius stroke. He was terrific–more Nixonian than Nixon and yet he was able to imbue the character with a certain (somewhat) redeeming sweetness–just a wonderful performance. The whole cast was great, but Hedaya was a standout.
Jun 8, 2005 - 1:20 pm 8. Tom Grey - Liberty Dad:Best “Watergate” movie???
The Killing Fields.
Of Cambodia.
What all the Leftists didn’t want, but were implicitly supporting in their desire to get the US out of Vietnam.
The choice was more war, until S. Vietnam could fight the N. Vietnamese “alone”, or leave and let evil commies win.
Anti-war folk, like Roger here (love your site), wanted “anything” but more fighting. And got something.
Jun 9, 2005 - 2:37 pm