What's fuss over 'Reagans'?

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/141218p-125226c.html

One month after a leaked copy of the script for the CBS miniseries "The Reagans" was attacked by the Republican National Committee and others, and three weeks after CBS pulled the four-hour docudrama from its November schedule, the controversial work finally surfaces tonight at 8 on the Showtime cable network as a three-hour movie.

It's not as uneven, incendiary or damning as its political critics have charged. As a preview copy provided by Showtime at the last minute yesterday revealed, though, it's not that great, either.

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"The Reagans" turns out to be just another average TV drama - not nearly as impressive as "Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows," made by the same executive producers (Craig Zadan, Neil Meron) and director (Robert Allan Ackerman), but not egregiously inept or unfair, either.

Nancy Reagan, as a dramatized TV character, takes her licks - but nothing like what Martha Stewart had to endure when Cybill Shepherd played her in NBC's "Martha Inc." last May.

James Brolin stars as Ronald Reagan, and Judy Davis (the star of "Life with Judy Garland") as Nancy. He's okay, especially in the later scenes; she's better, but slips on occasion into Faye Dunaway "Mommie Dearest" mode.

[Skittles]

1. the conservatives foamed at the mouth

because the movie didn't depict their greedy old f***wit King Ronnie walking on water. Simple as that.

[VolcanoJen]

2. Not LBN... locking

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[Cooley Hurd]

3. Didn't CBS say that the Showtime release was unedited...

...from the original CBS version? If so, it sounds like the Repugs got their knickers in a bunch for nothing.

Nancy Reagan, as a dramatized TV character, takes her licks - but nothing like what Martha Stewart had to endure when Cybill Shepherd played her in NBC's "Martha Inc." last May.

Martha, a high-profile Democrat, got reamed worse than Nancy? :wow: Go figure...