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30-01-2014, 10:59 AM | #1 | |||
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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. ] Last edited by arista; 30-01-2014 at 12:10 PM. |
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30-01-2014, 11:02 AM | #2 | ||
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Can you post the article please, as I'm past my allotted articles for the month. Cheers Arista.
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30-01-2014, 12:06 PM | #3 | |||
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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? ] |
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Cheers Arista. SO does that start tonight? Might be worth watching the first one, and see where it goes.
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30-01-2014, 12:19 PM | #5 | |||
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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 Last edited by arista; 30-01-2014 at 01:05 PM. |
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30-01-2014, 08:00 PM | #6 | |||
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On now
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