Aug 21 2008 'Frost/Nixon' Trailer Battles 'W' for Best President Impersonation

Here's the trailer to Frost/Nixon, Ron Howard's adaptation of Peter Morgan's play about the battle between the former president and a British talk show host. I recommend it solely because it includes the line, "I will ruin you if it takes the rest of my life," just as I recommend any movie that includes such a line. It's just pulls you right into the film because it's so real. I can't even count the number of times I've said I would ruin someone even if it took until my death, or that someone has promised the same to me. It's getting to the point I need an Excel spreadsheet just to keep track of who I have left to ruin, who is going to ruin me, and who's already died without managing to ruin me (I win). It's exhausting, but such is real life.

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Nov 2 2007 First Image from 'Frost/Nixon' Not Good Enough for Local

In this first shot from Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon, it looks like Frank Langella is doing a pretty decent impression of Nixon's famous helicopter departure tribute to the number four. But I can't help but wonder, what does neighbor Ken Stack think of the reenactment?

Luckily, the OC Register asked neighbor Ken Stack just that, to which he replied it was pretty close to his vague recollection of the news footage, but "to me, it looks like (Langella) is acting. But that's Hollywood; it's a little over the top."

You hear that, Hollywood? Like an incisive Leno monologue, this guy's saying what we're all thinking! Time to get back to the cinéma-vérité style the neighbor Ken Stacks of the world are clamoring for. This isn't community theatre, Langella!

Nixon leaves White House - again [OC Register]