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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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
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