Steven Spielberg

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  2/21/2022
  

  Spielberg was the Director Lincoln Deserved

  The director, with writer Tony Kushner and star Daniel Day-Lewis, nailed the idea of Lincoln as an imperfect leader nevertheless "fitted to the times we were born into," in a film that holds up after ten years.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  12-24-17
  

  Behind the Pentagon Papers: The beginning of Nixon’s end

  by Ken Hughes

  What was Nixon trying to hide? Here’s a comprehensive timeline of his descent into paranoia and lawlessness.

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• SOURCE: The Root
  6-2-15
  

  David Oyelowo Says Steven Spielberg Wants Him to Reprise Martin Luther King Jr. Role in Upcoming Biopic

  After starring as Martin Luther King Jr. in Ava DuVernay’s critically acclaimed movie Selma, David Oyelowo revealed in a recent interview that Steven Spielberg is trying to get him to reprise his role as the civil rights leader.

• SOURCE: The Cresset
  3-1-13
  

  Robert Elder: Remembering Lincoln

  Robert Elder is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts at Valparaiso University.

• SOURCE: WaPo
  2-12-13
  

  Rep. Joe Courtney gets lesson in Oscar politics in debate over ‘Lincoln’ accuracy

  Rep. Joe Courtney says he had no idea he was wading into controversy when he questioned the accuracy of a key scene in “Lincoln.”After all, he knows Washington politics, not Hollywood politics.Last week, the Connecticut Democrat called on Steven Spielberg to “correct an historical inaccuracy” in the Oscar-nominated box-office hit — a scene, at the film’s climax, suggesting that two of his state’s three representatives voted against outlawing slavery in 1865.