There’s enough Watergate addenda out in the general American consciousness to flood entire D.C. libraries, so there was an extra challenge for the creators of the Slate podcast “Slow Burn” to not only find underappreciated stories from the era, but enlist some previously overlooked participants in the proceedings. Often, that meant going a layer deeper than they expected.
When asked if there was a particular interview that best exemplified that approach, host Leon Neyfakh told IndieWire about discovering brand new angles to the saga that led to the end of Richard Nixon’s presidency.
“One example that was really exciting was when I called Curtis Prins for Episode 2, the Wright Patman episode. Prins worked for Patman and he was really, depending on how you define it, the first person to look into Watergate,” Neyfakh said. “He actually told me that he had never gotten a phone call about...
When asked if there was a particular interview that best exemplified that approach, host Leon Neyfakh told IndieWire about discovering brand new angles to the saga that led to the end of Richard Nixon’s presidency.
“One example that was really exciting was when I called Curtis Prins for Episode 2, the Wright Patman episode. Prins worked for Patman and he was really, depending on how you define it, the first person to look into Watergate,” Neyfakh said. “He actually told me that he had never gotten a phone call about...
- 1/30/2018
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Harry Shearer was recently in town promoting his new brilliantly acted and expertly executed web series -- Nixon's The One! -- about Richard Milhous Nixon. Recently, I had the chance to listen to him wax poetic about Nixon, the production challenges of the show, share clips, and ponder why only Sky TV in UK funded the series. Why no one in the Us would distribute it is still mind-boggling. Shearer and his actors memorized the actually transcripts from the actual Nixon White House tapes that had been in storage in the National Archives for over 40 years. He and Nixon historian Stanley Kutler (both credited as the show's writers) poured over hundreds of hours of transcripts before committing the series to film. Thanks to our friends at My Damn Channel, here's the first episode of the six-part series co-created by and starring Mr. Shearer. In this episode, Nixon learns how the taping system works,...
- 11/9/2014
- by webmaster
- www.culturecatch.com
40 years after Richard Nixon's resignation, Harry Shearer is playing the 37th President's shady White House dealings for laughs. Shearer is the star of Nixon's The One, a six-episode series that is now available via My Damn Channel. In Nixon's The One, Shearer steers the former President through a series of conversations with his aides and confidants. The series' main gimmick is that the script is entirely true to life; Shearer and co-creator Stanley Kutler combed through hundreds of hours of White House tapes in search of “bizarre, funny, spooky, crazy, weird conversations." The result is a profile of a man who Shearer calls "the great American comic character of the 20th century. The Simpsons and Saturday Night Live cast member has been fascinated with Nixon from a young age; grew up in California in the 50s, when Nixon served as one of the state's Us Senators. "He was so...
- 10/21/2014
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
On Aug. 8, 1974 - exactly 40 years ago Friday - Richard Nixon made history by becoming the first (and so far only) president to resign from office. We couldn't mark the occasion by interviewing the real Nixon (he's been dead since 1994) so we did the next best thing: Talk to actor Harry Shearer, the Simpsons and Spinal Tap alum who plays the 37th president in Nixon's the One, a comedy series based on Nixon's secretly recorded conversations in the Oval Office. As you might expect from an actor who underwent four hours of makeup to step into Nixon's famous features, the series...
- 8/8/2014
- by Nate Jones, @kn8
- PEOPLE.com
On Aug. 8, 1974 - exactly 40 years ago Friday - Richard Nixon made history by becoming the first (and so far only) president to resign from office. We couldn't mark the occasion by interviewing the real Nixon (he's been dead since 1994) so we did the next best thing: Talk to actor Harry Shearer, the Simpsons and Spinal Tap alum who plays the 37th president in Nixon's the One, a comedy series based on Nixon's secretly recorded conversations in the Oval Office. As you might expect from an actor who underwent four hours of makeup to step into Nixon's famous features, the series...
- 8/8/2014
- by Nate Jones, @kn8
- PEOPLE.com
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