LIBERAL CBS slams reagan in slanted movie

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CBS 'REAGAN' REVEALED: WATCH NANCY HIT DAUGHTER, SEE RONNIE CURSE

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Former first lady Nancy Reagan has reached out to Hollywood heavyweights, including Merv Griffin, to somehow stop an upcoming CBS-TV movie about her life and times with Ronald Reagan.

A concerned legal department at CBS repeatedly called producers of the upcoming miniseries THE REAGANS, during filming, looking for assurances that shocking claims made in the telefilm could be backed up, productions sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT. Irritated producers reminded the network they had already cleared the script, with few notes!

THE REAGANS is now at the center of a media and political firestorm.

Insinuations that Nancy pill-popped are scattered throughout the story, as are repeated allegations that Ronald Reagan was homophobic, and was suffering from Alzheimer's disease as early as 1984. [Nancy rushes to a doctor to warn that her husband is forgetting things.]

Actress Judy Davis's portrayal of Nancy Reagan appears to be inspired by the Joan Crawford camp biopic MOMMIE DEAREST; wild mood swings, dramatic lighting, and tart-mouth insults are hysterically delivered by Davis.

[The showcase line "Ketchup is a vegetable! It is not a meat, right? So IT IS a vegetable" is likely to become the "No wire hangers ever!" camp highlight of the season.]

One camp scene shows Nancy and Ron both standing nude [wrapped in towels] when they first learn from NBC's John Chancellor they have won the election.

Pages 32, 33 of script:

INT. REAGANS' HOUSE -- PACIFIC PALISADES -- DAY

A FILM CREW is swarming all over the living room, setting up lights, cameras, etc. Reagan sits in the middle, putting on his own make-up.

INT. UPSTAIRS -- PATTI'S BEDROOM

Nancy arguing with Patti, (age 5), who won't come down.

NANCY: Come on, Patti. They're all set to go.

PATTI: No. I won't. I want to stay up here and play.

Nancy grits her teeth, and takes Patti by the wrist.

NANCY: No arguing. We're going down, right now.

PATTI: No! No! No! No! NO! NO!

Nancy reaches out, and slaps Patti. Patti reels, holding her cheek. Nancy

freezes.

*** Nancy is shown talking with her own mother in one flashback.

Page 16 of script:

NANCY'S STEP-FATHER: Nancy, I don't know what you see in Hollywood. As far as I can tell, it's nothing but Communists and drug addicts.

NANCY: It didn't used to be this bad -- did it, Mother?

NANCY'S MOTHER, EDITH: Hell, no. When I was here, it was just wall-to-wall Jews and queers.

****

President Reagan, played by James Brolin, is shown cursing his staff during one Oval Office meeting.

Pages. 152 of script:

REAGAN: "Rank amateur"! Who does that sonofabitch think he is? I'm the goddam President of the United States, I'm his boss!

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Lawyers for CBS have growing concern that few of the most-intimate scenes created for THE REAGANS have much historical documentation or on-the-record witness corroboration.

Complicating matters is the film's charge that Reagan believed AIDS was biblical revenge -- as actor James Brolin finds his family in a real-life fight with the disease!

An immediate member of the Brolin/Streisand family is currently suffering from HIV, according to press reports.

During a scene in the film which his wife pleads with him to help people battling AIDS, Reagan says resolutely, "They that live in sin shall die in sin" and refuses to discuss the issue further.

Actor Brolin delivers the uncorroborated words with extra confidence.

In 1992, Streisand wrote an essay condemning Reagan over AIDS:

"I will never forgive my fellow actor Ronald Reagan for his refusal to even utter the word AIDS for seven years, and for blocking adequate funding for research and education, which could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Then came George Bush, once the moderate, who, in a Faustian bargain, allied himself with the same primitive, gay-bashing, immoral minority."

Streisand, who spent weeks on the set of THE REAGANS, did not return calls seeking comment.

Developing...

from drudge. of course, james brolin is the husband of streisand, who totally despises all conservatives. odd to put him in that role.

[Derek Ortt]

why am I not surprised. There is no conservative that a bleeding heart liberal wont attack

[rainstorm]

i wonder if they will mention that he won the cold war? i doubt it

[Lindaloo]

I knew this would happen one day to Reagan. I do not believe one ounce of this movie, especially because it comes from CBS!!

They had to pull this stunt now that he is sick. What a darn shame!

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it says it all that streisand was always on the set.
when they make a movie about the clintons, will newt gingrich be running the show? i doubt it

[GalvestonDuck]

Until I see an excerpt in script format, I won't believe that it is really from the script.

[southerngale]

What a load of crapola!! grrrr

I wouldn't TAKE money to see this movie.

[WXBUFFJIM]

Why does CBS bash Reagan?? Someone should bash them for once. Is that station known as the country bash station?? Give me a break!!!!

Jim

[sunnyday]

Do you remember when their daughter wrote that book about her childhood?

[ColdFront77]

Why does CBS bash Reagan?? Someone should bash them for once. Is that station known as the country bash station?? Give me a break!!!!

Jim

Former CBS reporter Bernard Goldberg bashes his former employer.

[Stephanie]

Do you remember when their daughter wrote that book about her childhood?

I do. They were none too pleased about it either.

Unfortunately, all famous families have skeletons that they don't want exposed. The Kennedys have had their "story told" dozens of times in the movies.

[wx247]

I believe the movie is definitely making stuff up ( I saw a debate about it on Buchanan and Press on MSNBC). However, it is drama, NOT a documentary and things are always overdramatized. Did anyone watch the movie on Martha Stewart? There were some blatant overdramatizations. Why? Because it is historical fiction. If they were passing this off as a documentary then I would be more outraged.

[j]

From what I've heard about this movie, I won't be wasting my time tuning in. It is one thing to "Dramatize". It is another to downright LIE! His son has said that he was never questioned about his father for the benefit of this movie. If you are going to tell the story of a man's life, don't you think his family might be a good place to start?

Of course it would, unless of course you just don't care about telling the truth. I see this movie as nothing more than Leftist propaganda.

Love Reagan or hate him, the undeniable truth is that this man made you feel good to be an American. He was a man of honor and integrity.

He was the last pure Conservative we have had in office, and IMO, will never be matched again.

[stormchazer]

What would you expect out of the "Clinton Broadcast System"?

[GalvestonDuck]

Isn't CBS the same network that gave us "Touched By An Angel" and "Promised Land?"

[ColdFront77]

Why does CBS bash Reagan?? Someone should bash them for once. Is that station known as the country bash station?? Give me a break!!!!

Jim

Former CBS reporter Bernard Goldberg bashes his former employer.

[GulfBreezer]

That is just plain sad!!!!!!!! What are we coming to?

[Lindaloo]

Isn't CBS the same network that gave us "Touched By An Angel" and "Promised Land?"

Makes you wonder huh?

[Stephanie]

Isn't CBS the same network that gave us "Touched By An Angel" and "Promised Land?"

Makes you wonder huh?

It doesn't appear that CBS leans in one direction or another now except for whereever the ratings seem to be coming from!