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To: Ilaine who wrote (13934)10/26/2003 3:33:36 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (2) of 793625
 
TV: Not a Pretty Portrait?


From what I have read, the AIDS sequence is incorrect. And I agree that hiring Babs' Husband to play Reagan was a bit much. Kind of "in your face."
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NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE

Nov. 3 issue — Just when you thought no one even watched TV movies anymore, along comes “The Reagans,” and people are dying just to read the script

THE CBS MINISERIES doesn’t air until Nov. 16, but leaked copies of the screenplay and a six-minute highlight tape have already stirred up a controversy about how the movie depicts the president and his wife, Nancy. “The Reagans” sprawls from the moment they meet on a Hollywood set through his presidency and his developing Alzheimer’s. It’s not an entirely unsympathetic portrait, especially in the way the movie illustrates Reagan’s affection for “Nancy Pooh Pants” and vice versa.

But Gipper admirers are angry that “The Reagans” shows the president to be unsympathetic to people with AIDS, out of it when first considering selling arms to Iran and often controlled by scheming Nancy (Judy Davis). “So Mr. Reagan will be depicted as a cold-hearted ogre and the network explains this as a reverential portrayal?” says Jerry Falwell, who is organizing a letter-writing campaign. “It’s no wonder that people are abandoning network television in droves.” There was bound to be some controversy—hiring James Brolin, husband of the famously liberal Barbra Streisand, to play a conservative icon didn’t put the right in a good mood. But the producers say they have at least two reliable sources for every plot point, and they’ve already agreed to cut a scene that implied Nancy wrote Al Haig’s resignation letter as secretary of State. But that won’t mollify Reagan partisans. “This is pretty cruel and defamatory,” says someone close to the family. “Everyone is pretty upset about it.”
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