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Ron Howard on 'Frost/Nixon'
![It feels as much like a celebration as a wake: There's a scene toward the end of "Frost/Nixon," as Richard Nixon's landmark interviews with talk show host David Frost draw to a close, when the disgraced president sits down at the piano. ¶<em style="b">¶</em> As performed by Frank Langella and directed by Ron Howard, Nixon is both hopeful and doomed -- he knows his televised clash with Frost isn't yet over, that "victory isn't necessarily at hand," as Howard puts it. It's a dramatic encapsulation of everything that unfolds in Peter Morgan's hit stage play, from which the movie is adapted. <b>¶</b> But the scene never happens in the play. <b>¶</b> Howard invented it for his film, even getting permission from the Nixon estate so that Langella could play a song the 37th president wrote himself.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-12/43750078-09172040.jpg "It feels as much like a celebration as a wake: There's a scene toward the end of "Frost/Nixon,\" as Richard Nixon's landmark interviews with talk show host David Frost draw to a close, when the disgraced president sits down at the piano. ¶<em style=\"b\">¶</em> As performed by Frank Langella and directed by Ron Howard, Nixon is both hopeful and doomed -- he knows his televised clash with Frost isn't yet over, that \"victory isn't necessarily at hand,\" as Howard puts it. It's a dramatic encapsulation of everything that unfolds in Peter Morgan's hit stage play, from which the movie is adapted. <b>¶</b> But the scene never happens in the play. <b>¶</b> Howard invented it for his film, even getting permission from the Nixon estate so that Langella could play a song the 37th president wrote himself.")
It feels as much like a celebration as a wake: There's a scene toward the end of "Frost/Nixon," as Richard Nixon's landmark interviews with talk show host David Frost draw to a close, when the disgraced president sits down at the piano. ¶¶ As performed by...Tags: Frank Langella, Television, David Frost, Richard Nixon, Michael Keaton
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Movie Review: 'Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!'
It might not be the most groundbreaking animated movie in recent years, but the bright and bighearted new adaptation of the 1954 Dr. Seuss classic "Horton Hears a Who!" certainly hits its target. Without resorting to the crude comedy and shrill theatrics...Tags: Regional Authority, Gaming, Seth Rogen, Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who (movie), Dr. Seuss
Dec 10, 2008
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Mar 14, 2008
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