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This is true as Nixon did not like switching the camera on
So it was left on all the time.

Its So Funny the previews 1 of 5 (9pm Thursdays)



Word for word: Harry Shearer as Nixon
and Henry Goodman as Kissinger in ‘Nixon’s the One'

Harry is the MrBurns voice and others in simpsons


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...s-preview.html

[Tom Lehrer didn’t know the half of it.
When the Nobel Peace Prize
went to Henry Kissinger not
long after he had overseen
the bombing of Cambodia, the American
songsmith famously suggested that
political satire was now obsolete.
It would be instructive to know
what Lehrer, and indeed Kissinger,
would make of Nixon’s the One. ]

Can you post the article please, as I'm past my allotted articles for the month. Cheers Arista.

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[Tom Lehrer didn’t know the half of it.
When the Nobel Peace Prize went to
Henry Kissinger not long after he
had overseen the bombing of
Cambodia, the American songsmith
famously suggested that political satire
was now obsolete. It would be
instructive to know what Lehrer,
and indeed Kissinger,
would make of Nixon’s the One.
It would be excusable to assume
that, like a Lehrer lyric,
this one-off pilot from the ever-reliable
comic mischief-maker Harry Shearer
coming to Sky Arts on Thursday
is the most hyperbolical of spoofs.
Set exclusively in the Oval Office,
it finds Nixon, played by Shearer,
harping on obsessively about Jews,
blacks and gays
while Kissinger (a superb Henry Goodman)
flatters him like a lickspittle courtier
and White House aides fan the flames
of his ego. “I don’t even want to shake
hands with anyone from San Francisco,”
advises the President. Or,
“I have the greatest affection for blacks
but they’re not going to make
it for 500 years.” And yet the film reveals
at the end that every word uttered by
the cast was actually spoken by
their real-life counterparts.
Shearer is best known in the UK
for his voicing of Montgomery Burns
and other characters in The Simpsons,
and for Spinal Tap’s priapically
challenged bass
player Derek Smalls. But he has a long
history as a Nixon impersonator
on Saturday Night Live and elsewhere.
Nixon’s the One is the culmination
of a lifetime’s horrified
fascination that began, he explains,
when Nixon was a California
Senator in Shearer’s childhood.
“I’ve always been an avid follower
of his. I grew up in a liberal democratic
household, where Nixon was a figure
of continual disdain if not worse.
But he was also, to me,
always a comic figure. There was something
about his public demeanour that
fascinated me even as a kid.
Then when we got to his
presidency it was now being
played on this grand stage
and there for all to see was
the way that he seemed to
spend the vast majority of
his public energy trying to
suppress what he really thought or felt.”
Nixon’s s obsessive desire to record conversations
was of course pivotal to his downfall.
But the content of the tapes recorded
in the Oval Office is not well known.
It is possible to dig the lot out of
the Nixon Library, and a while
back they were made available
for the public to listen to at a
Washington DC warehouse.
Few, however, have made
the effort, and none of them
is a comedian or satirist.
Apart from Shearer.
But what, in the end,
is so amusing about him? ]

Cheers Arista. SO does that start tonight? Might be worth watching the first one, and see where it goes.

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Originally Posted by Jesus.

Cheers Arista. SO does that start tonight? Might be worth watching the first one, and see where it goes.

yes first of five 30mins
start tonight





[Harry Shearer: 'Richard Nixon wanted my ass in Vietnam'
If the US president had had his way, the actor, best known
for Spinal Tap and The Simpsons, might have had a much
shorter, more brutal life. But why has he now decided
to play him in TV series Nixon's the One?]

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-ra...l-tap-simpsons

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On now