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Hooting Yard (Free subscription) | 01/03/2009
I read in the paper today that the governors of a new primary school in Sheffield have decided the word “school” has “negative connotations” and it will thus be known as a “place for learning”. No doubt staff and pupils (or whatever euphemisms they use for them) will find their way around the place by following the “directional pointing devices” so favoured by John Birt when he was in...
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Behind the Hype (Free subscription) | 12/24/2008
... bitch. James Reston, Jr. (played by Sam Rockwell ), Bob Zelnick (played by Oliver Platt), and John Birt (played by Matthew Macfadyen) do all the background work for Frost’s interview questions - they make up Frost’s “corner” - while Frost galavants around with Cushing to various events to rub elbows with big wigs and sponsors. Throughout the interview scenes, it really felt like a...
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Black and White (Free subscription) | 12/10/2008
... died; one to influenza, and one to tuberculosis. After losing the presidential election to John F. Kennedy in 1960, his career was in fatal mode, only revived due to the John F. Kennedy (JFK) assassination. During the 1968 primary season, Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy (RFK), just after winning the Democratic California primary– Nixon’s home state– was also killed, paving the way for a...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
And so they face each other for four extended interviews, which comprise the film's second hour. Frost has gotten help cramming for this exam from British TV producer John Birt (Matthew Macfadyen), veteran journalist Bob Zelnick (Oliver Platt) and author and Nixon critic James Reston Jr. (Sam Rockwell). Rebecca Hall provides moral support as the sultry socialite Frost picked up in first...
