Week of February 23, 2009

I like to say that, in some ways, Barack Obama is the first President since George Washington to be taking a step down into the Oval Office. I mean, from visionary leader of a giant movement, now he’s got an executive position that he has to perform in, in a way.

It’s funny to hear Michael Douglas say that Frank Langella makes all other interpretations of Richard Nixon fall away … when Anthony Hopkins, the star of Oliver Stone’s Nixon (1995), is standing right there on the stage with him.