CBS 'REAGAN' REVEALED: WATCH NANCY HIT DAUGHTER, SEE RONNIE CURSE
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.
- Barbra Streisand
So is the problem that CBS isn't portraying Ronald Reagan as the almost god-like figure that most Conservatives think he was? The reality is that Reagan was the product of this country's short attention span and appetite for easy solutions. Reagan makes George W. Bush seem like a Nobel Laureate by comparison.
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.]
Perhaps we should remember that Reagan wasn't elected as much as he was packaged and marketed. That he served eight years in office was a testament to his handlers more than any leadeership qualities he may have possessed. Reagan's greatest gift was his ability to use words to soothe and pacify the American public. Of course, Hitler possessed a similar gift. Neither used their gift as anything more that a means of obtaining and maintaining power. No, I'm not comparing Ronald Reagan to Adolf Hitler, but sometimes it is useful to remember that the line between demagoguery and sheer evil is at times a very fine one.
