Famed Republican dirty trickster and Scott Rothstein partner Roger Stone told the Daily Beast that he has regrets for organizing a mob of GOP staffers to stage a coup at the Miami-Dade elections office in 2000 to stop the Bush-Gore vote recount. Said Stone:
There have been many times I've regretted it. When I look at those double-page New York Times spreads of all the individual pictures of people who have been killed [in Iraq], I got to think, 'Maybe there wouldn't have been a war if I hadn't
Despite generating a bunch of Oscar buzz immediately before its release, Frost/Nixon is not a good movie. It is not even a good Ron Howard movie, which is saying something. As the critics figured out pretty quick, "The Nixon Interviews" were a journalistic, not an historic, event, and not even Hans Zimmer's most self-important soundtrack can turn it into one.
(Oh, but it can try. Close your eyes for a minute, and Frost/Nixon might as well be Pearl fucking Harbor .)So what, then, is this movie's