The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee
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| HBO | Release Date: December 4, 2017 |
Summary:
The life and career of the Washington Post editor Ben Bradley is illustrated by archival footage, interviews, home movies, and photos in this documentary directed by John Maggio.
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Movie/Mini-Series, News/Documentary, Documentary
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Dec 11, 2017
Dec 4, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Sharply recounts Bradlee's adventures in print with wit and warmth. [8 Dec 2017, p.52]
Dec 1, 2017
Season 1 Review:
As any rational person would expect, the subject of HBO’s The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee--the executive editor who presided over the Washington Post’s coverage of the Watergate scandal that drove Richard Nixon from office--quickly emerges as a heroic figure. What’s not so expected, what comes as something bordering on shock, of a gratifying kind, is how much else the film takes on in this buoyant and mercilessly frank look at Bradlee’s life and career.
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Dec 1, 2017
Dec 1, 2017
Dec 1, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Maggio’s film is narrated by Bradlee himself, reading from his own memoir. The list of contributors all but ensures the hagiographic nature of the film: Quinn, Donald Graham (Katharine and Philip’s son), Woodward, Bernstein, Quinn Bradlee (Bradlee and Quinn’s son), TV journalist Jim Lehrer, TV producer Norman Lear, Robert Redford, historian Sally Bedell Smith and others. Henry Kissinger grumbles about the Post endangering national security, but no one brings up other shortcomings.
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