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January 24, 2009
Frost/Nixon
Frost/Nixon Ron Howard 122 mins (15) ***** Ron Howard's film from Peter Morgan's script, adapting his stage play about the impaling of Richard Nixon by interviewer David Frost in 1977, has rightly been festooned with prize...
December 31, 2009
Selected new year honours
...Studios. Heidi Mottram, managing director, Northern Rail. David Nixon, artistic director, Northern Ballet Theatre. Rick Parfitt...golf champion. Jean Pickering, widow of sports broadcaster Ron Pickering. Steve Prescott, former rugby league player. Andrew... By
December 31, 2009
MPs ignored by depoliticised awards
...Studios. Heidi Mottram , managing director, Northern Rail. David Nixon , artistic director, Northern Ballet Theatre. Rick Parfitt...golf champion. Jean Pickering , widow of sports broadcaster Ron Pickering. Steve Prescott , former rugby league player. Andrew... By Jean Eaglesham, Chief Political Correspondent
January 21, 2009
Love, freedom and bad hair
Milk (Gus Van Sant) Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard) Valkyrie (Bryan Singer) Rachel...real-life roles in Milk and Frost/Nixon respectively, Sean Penn (pictured) and Frank...midnight phone call between Frost and Nixon on the eve of the climactic Watergate interview...Elizabeth and Mary in Mary Stuart. Director Ron Howard, less an artist of film... By Nigel Andrews
January 22, 2009
Love, freedom and bad hair
...as facile and famous a social animal as Nixon was gauche, suspicious, defensive...Toby Jones as agent "Swifty" Lazar, Nixon's creepy dealmaker, to Sam Rockwell...midnight phone call between Frost and Nixon on the eve of the climactic Watergate...Elizabeth and Mary in Mary Stuart . Director Ron Howard, less an artist of film like Van... By Nigel Andrews
January 31, 2009
Films on release - Nigel Andrews
...and truth as beauty, the old Keatsian dream. Frost/Nixon Ron Howard 122 mins (15) Ron Howard's film from Peter Morgan...adapting his stage play about the impaling of Richard Nixon by interviewer David Frost in 1977, has rightly been festooned...
January 24, 2009
Three days in Washington - and what I wore
...Hollywood/Washington power nexus. I see Jerry Brown, former California governer, whom I haven't seen in years, and Frost/Nixon director Ron Howard. Afterwards I feel bad for Maureen: there were so many people, her house must be completely destroyed. Next we drop... By Diane von Furstenberg
January 23, 2009
Diane von Furstenberg in Washington
...Hollywood/Washington power nexus. I see Jerry Brown, former California governor, whom I haven’t seen in years, and Frost/Nixon director Ron Howard. Afterwards I feel bad for Maureen: there were so many people, her house must be completely destroyed. Next we drop... By Diane von Furstenberg
February 14, 2009
The Diary: Martha Kearney
...by the gladiatorial contest between David Frost and Richard Nixon in Peter Morgan’s play and recently released film Frost/Nixon. On Monday, I went to the Dorchester to interview the film’s director Ron Howard for a Newsnight Review special about the Oscars. I... By Martha Kearney
May 25, 2007
Who was the worst of all?
...successful administrations. Two – Richard Nixon and Mr Carter himself – finished as...S. Grant, Warren Harding and Richard Nixon, with only Nixon accused of personal misdeeds. It...as Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul often has) that the US was on a... By Christopher Caldwell