Film Shows Nancy Reagan "A Pill-Popping Control Addict"

[matcom]

Drudge has his panties in a wad :bounce:

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In the upcoming CBS telefilm on President Ronald Reagan producer fail to mention the economic recovery or the creation of wealth during his administration, nor does it show him delivering the nation from the malaise of the Jimmy Carter years.

The film depicts Nancy Reagan as a pill-popping control addict, who set the president's schedule based on her astrologer's advice and who had significant influence over White House personnel and policy decisions.

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The NEW YORK TIMES has obtained a final script for THE REAGANS, according to newsroom sources.

TIMES reporter Jim Rutenberg does it again, and is planning a Tuesday splash.

"This was very important for me, to document everything and give a very fair point of view," says Leslie Moonves, the CBS chairman and a top Democrat supporter .

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The film is set to air during next month's Sweeps. It stresses Reagan's moments of forgetfulness, his supposed opinions on AIDS and gays, his laissez-faire handling of his staff members. The scenes often carry a disapproving tone.

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash6.htm

[booksenkatz]

1. Hmmm

They failed to mention the economic recovery to the rest of us as well. I never heard a thing about it, nor did I experience it in my personal finances at the time.

[papau]

26. I like if CBS Nov two-part miniseries "Reagan" tells Truth -upsets Drudge

This is old news that was out last Spring - now they are trying stop CBS from airing it!


http://talk.cabletvinfo.com/talk/showthread.php?t=233

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - After watching CBS's proposed Ronald and Nancy Reagan two-part miniseries, viewers will be able to ask themselves an important question: Are they better off now than they were four hours ago?

CBS plans to base the miniseries on Carl Sferrazza Anthony's book "First Ladies: The Saga of the Presidents' Wives and Their Power, 1961-1990," with a concentration on the former actor's years with wife Nancy.

Tentatively titled "The Reagans," the miniseries will start in the 1940s when Reagan was a working contract actor in Hollywood. The biopic will follow his rise from Screen Actors Guild president to California governor to 40th President of the United States.<snip>

:-) Drudge then spins the above by saying folks involved are Democrats and do not use the GOP/US Media approach to Reagan od telling lies about his career - of course that is my interpretation of what Drudge said........ :-)


CONTROVERSY SWIRLS AROUND CBS REAGAN FILM; SCRIPT REVEALED
Mon Oct 20 2003 20:30:29 ET

In the upcoming CBS telefilm on President Ronald Reagan producer fail to mention the economic recovery or the creation of wealth during his administration, nor does it show him delivering the nation from the malaise of the Jimmy Carter years. (MY COMMENT - PERHAPS BECAUSE ECON GROWTH WAS SAME PER YEAR AS CARTER'S - 3.33% versus 3.25% for Carter, and WEALTH WENT TO ALREADY WEALTHY)

The film depicts Nancy Reagan as a pill-popping control addict, who set the president's schedule based on her astrologer's advice and who had significant influence over White House personnel and policy decisions.

"This was very important for me, to document everything and give a very fair point of view," says Leslie Moonves ....The film is set to air during next month's Sweeps. It stresses Reagan's moments of forgetfulness, his supposed opinions on AIDS and gays, his laissez-faire handling of his staff members. The scenes often carry a disapproving tone.During a scene in 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.<snip>

The film's producers, Zadan and Meron,...tells the TIMES: "This is not a vendetta, this is not revenge. It is about telling a good story in our honest sort of way. We all believe it's a story that should be told."

Matcom - I did not see your posted and posted the above at
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=109&topic_id=2398

Sorry - I'm always a day late and a dollar short!

[amazona]

28. he really trashed the economy, what a mess

Only the very upper crust did well during most of the Reagan years, which had a strong focus on union busting.


songs of the time include "allentown"

[La_Serpiente]

2. No offense or anything

I don't like the tone of this even though Regan did some controversial things. I don't think he deserves the right to be framed in that perspective. It is just shock television and only stuff worthy for the tabloids.

If anything, this is just going to piss off Conservatives and say that liberals are doing character assasinations.

[Q]

5. "controversial things'?

- Jesus...you must not have been around during the Reagan years. He was the prelude to Bush* and the beginning of the dumbing down of America.

- Not to mention that his administration committed criminal and treasonous acts against the US and funded/supported terrorism.

[La_Serpiente]

8. Actually

I wasn't around. I started Kindergarten in 1989. I am just raising a point that the Conservatives will just say it's a bunch of Hollywood Liberals that are trying to skew "their hero". The L.A. Times was accused of gutter politics when they published that Ahhnold article. I really think that a lot of people changed their votes because they didn't like all the negative press.

I'm just saying that this could stall someone of the progress that Democrats have been making, that's all. The conservatives will try to associate the new books coming out that have substance and integrity with this tabloid riddled production and undermine the moderate's faith in the left. Although the allegations are probably true, I don't think many Americans would like it. That's all I am saying.

[Q]

14. Perhaps you worry too much about how 'conservatives' think?

- You can bet the farm that THEY don't worry about us.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

23. They say that everday, all the time

I can't see how this movie is going to make them act differently?

[Skittles]

25. Reagan was absolute garbage

I absolutely agree with you, Q. He ushered in the DECADE OF GREED from which this country has never recovered.

[bleedingheart]

6. I don't know if you are old enough to remember those

"Reagan Years"...but Reagan spent a lot of time maligning the poor, underprivileged and anyone he could think of that conservatives didn't like. To this day people are fighting the stereotypes that twit set in motion....for example...the famed woman on welfare with a big cadillac...

He started this hate mongering but he was throwing stones from a glass house.

When he was president he was under constant fire but it would all deflect and fall to the floor...hence the nickname the Teflon President.

I recall Nancy's immensely expensive china at the taxpayer's expense, her astrology fascination, her dislike for certain members of his staff and the feuds that ensued. The fact that he was senile while president...he recalled fighting in battles he was never in???


All of this was/is known....so this docu-drama may help people take a more grounded position when Reagan is finally laid to rest.

[Noordam]

9. I remember the Reagan years, I WAS a Republican for the first

couple years, until I saw what he turned the Republican party into.

[bleedingheart]

10. Thank you!

[mhr]

17. Hmm, Like the Republicans Did With Clinton in Real Time.

Politics is rough and tumble, and turn about is fair play.

Them's the rules!

[Nlighten1]

3. Damned Librul media.

How dare they attack St. Reagan like that.

[Vogon_Glory]

4. After Two Plus Years of Dubya, I Forgive Nancy Reagan

After over two and a half years being ruled over by George Deucey-U Bush and the right wing of the Republican Party, I am coming to forgive Nancy Reagan and am blessing her for not taking the country off the edge into the abyss like the current pResident.

One major difference from the start between Ronald Reagan and Dubya--Reagan was elected fair and square.

--VG

[bleedingheart]

11. Nancy hated ...absolutely hated the Bush Family

so there is some good in there....deep in the recesses of her inner being...

[Logansquare]

30. She knew an enemy when she saw one

The Bushes wanted Ronnie out of the way.

[AntiCoup2K4]

16. Reagan WAS elected, but I wouldn't call it "fair and square"

Poppy's dirty deal with the Iranian terrorists had a lot to do with it. :grr:

[dfong63]

32. Reagan was not elected fair and square

One major difference from the start between Ronald Reagan and Dubya--Reagan was elected fair and square.

Reagan was not elected "fair and square". unless you think it was "fair and square" to steal the opponent's debate prep book prior to a debate. unless you think it was "fair and square" to send emissaries to negotiate with terrorists holding Americans hostage, offering the terrorists incentives to not release their hostages until after the election. thus undermining the efforts of the sitting president to free them.

those were dirty tricks, and treason in the latter case.

[punpirate]

35. Fair and square?

Time to read some Robert Parry in that regard:

http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/xfile.html

Potentially, not so fair and square....

Cheers.

[OneTwentyoNine]

7. Economic recovery??

The only place I've heard that parroted but never ever proved is by Sean Hannity. His massive tax cuts for the wealthy might have improved their lives dramatically but Reagan kicked the legs out from under working class people.

Lets see...By 1983,two years into the Reagan fiasco we were teetering on the edge of losing a house we bought in 1981,my parents loaned us a couple of thousand to get us by. In 1985 my dad was forced to retire from PPG Industries several years before he wanted to because of massive cutbacks and closing of all retail stores. In 1987 my brother-in law lost his job at Cessna where he had worked since 1977. He went over to LearJet and worked for awhile and got laid off,over to Boeing and then laid off...etc. I worked in the new house industry back then and could name 10-15 builders who went belly up under Reagan's "tinkle down" policy's. The rich got one hell of alot richer,the Industrial Military Complex made out like fucking bandits at taxpayer expense and us worker class people got the shaft for 8 solid years. Screw ya Ronnie....

David

[prolesunited]

12. Just as with Bush

it HAS been an economic recovery — that is if you are RICH!

On a related note, they have organized a campaign to get CBS to not show this:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=564154#565303

[BlueJazz]

20. And don't forget the massive debt his ...

....administration racked up plus the fact that he squelched
any thought of raising the minumum wage...

[peekaloo]

13. Damn that Communist Broadcasting System

Hiring Mr. Steisand to play the greatest president of all time!

(a freep moment) :silly:

Do the Bu$hies get any play in this telefilm? I cannot read Drudge no matter how many flashing lights he displays.

[MetaTrope]

15. Will we see Bush Sr. & Oliver North whispering together in the background?

:nuke:

[goddess40]

18. Regan was the first non-president

After Nixon the Repubs weren't going to let some one in the office think for themselves. Why do you think they hired an actor, even if he wasn't a very good one.

[noonwitch]

19. These are not exactly new allegations

People have been saying that Nancy "Just Say No" Reagan had a pill problem for years. The astrologer rumors have been around for a while, too.
I think the fact that Reagan got shot caused people to rally around him as president. He was good in front of the camera, at least in the first term, before the alzheimers was obvious, and we all saw the attempt to kill him on tv. I never liked him, and think that his administration was far more corrupt that Nixon's, but Bush makes him look like a saintly deep thinker in comparison.

[kentuck]

21. They want "liberal media"?..We'll give them "liberal media"...

Until they say "Uncle".. :)

[ProfessorGAC]

22. Uh, Matty Boy!

There was no economic recovery, Matt, you idiot! The entire change in real GDP was funded with borrowed money. That's not a recovery, it's a financial shell game.

It is not a true recovery (although conservative economists use the most convenient definitions) if the actions of gov't take more than 3 years before a shift to a fully sustainable fiscal policy are required. The Reagan fiscal policies were maintained for more than 10 years. There was no point during the 80's in which the economic growth was sustainable without increases in borrowing. That's not a recovery of the economy. It's just an arbitrary improvement in the numbers.

Matty boy can call that a recovery if he wishes, but that would make him wrong.
The Professor

[11 Bravo]

24. Does the film take note of the fact ...

that as a young actress, Nancy was well renowned for giving the best blow job in Hollywood?

[papau]

29. Robin Leach said that - refers to 1935-37 "hostess" career to finance folk

but to be fair - while the "hostess" ladies were thought of as whores - no one can prove that everyone doing the job was a whore - and only Robin Leach has said that Nancy was all that great at blow-jobs.

But I do wonder if Nancy and Monica will ever compare notes?

:-)

[amazona]

27. tee hee

Someone actually remembers the 80s, it sounds like. A pill-popping control freak...sounds about right.


yep, sounds like the nancy we all know and love

[Terwilliger]

31. Republicans pop pills...nobody cares...

Democrats take one aspirin too many, and they're hopeless drug addicts.

[piece sine]

33. say what?

I must have plowed thru 40 threads at DU on Rush's pill problems. So Ireally can't seewhere you are coming from. Republican consumption of illegally obtained perscription drugs has been a BIG DEAL.

[matcom]

34. think the point was

REPUBLICANS don't care if REPUBLICANS pop pills

:shrug: