Clothes and Ephrons Nov 19, 2009
"I don't think you can get through almost anything without humor," says Nora Ephron, who turned the disintegration of her marriage to Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein into the book and movie "Heartburn." "And I feel bad for the people who don't at some point understand that there's something funny in even the worst things that can happen to you.". Perhaps humor is the most appropriate remedy for sadness -- as long as you're in on the joke. (CNN -- Showbiz)
Woodward, Bernstein to visit UTPB Oct 5, 2009
Washington Post Associate Editor Bob Woodward and Vanity Fair writer Carl Bernstein will speak at 7 p.m. Oct. 15 to share their experiences during their Pulitzer Prize-winning work with the Washington Post on the Watergate scandal. The event is free to the public, and no tickets or reservations are needed. (Odessa American, TX)
RDA looking to condense real estate holdings Sep 30, 2009
Carl Bernsteinand screenwriter ... In the latest defection, Tina Brown, founder of the political news site The Daily Beast, has raided her former boss's empire to hire Jacob Bernstein, son of Vanity Fair contributor and author Carl Bernstein and screenwriter Nora Ephron. (New York Post -- Business)
A fare to remember Sep 19, 2009
"The story is a very thinly veiled account of the disastrous end of her marriage to Carl Bernstein [the Watergate journalist]. She uses cooking as a way to cope and at the very end she is at a dinner party, heavily pregnant and aware that her husband is sleeping with her friend [Margaret Jay, now Baroness, who at the time was the wife of the British ambassador to the US, Peter]. So she says, 'If I throw this key lime pie at him, he won't love me any more. But he doesn't love me anyway, so I can... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Woodward to speak at IUP Sep 16, 2009
The lecture will be offered at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 4 in the Performing Arts Center Fisher Auditorium. The program is free and open to the public. (Somerset Daily American, PA)
Women's rights key issue for Clinton Aug 15, 2009
She could see that, no matter how she was treated by politicians and the press back home, she had an international platform from which to preach the ideas and concepts that meant the most to her,'' wrote Carl Bernstein in the book A Woman in Charge. Mrs Clinton built a network of female activists, politicians and entrepreneurs, especially through a group she helped found, Vital Voices, that has trained more than 7000 emerging leaders worldwide. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
A beef Bourguignon of a movie Aug 3, 2009
(Streep had appeared in "Silkwood" and essentially played Ephron in "Heartburn," a thinly disguised chronicle of Ephron's disastrous marriage to Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein. She was properly impressed with Streep's focus, noting that the key to her performance was not, as you might imagine, that voice. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
A chance to see real Nixon and Frost in action Jul 27, 2009
There are some fascinating asides: Nixon can't even speak the names of Washington Post investigative reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, he finds them so distasteful. He predicts, erroneously, that no future president would be impeached because he wouldn't want to put the country through the tumult of a Senate trial. (San Francisco Chronicle)
The conversation continues online Jul 11, 2009
Aug. 5: Carl Bernstein, David Brody, Doris Kearns Goodwin and David Mendell share their thoughts on the current crop of presidential candidates, and their experiences writing about those holding and seeking top office. advertisement. (MSNBC -- Politics)
How the NY Times was scooped on Watergate May 27, 2009
Carl Bernstein (left) and Bob Woodward in 1973 ... FOR 37 years Robert Smith and Robert Phelps watched from the sidelines as Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were showered with Pulitzers, book and movie contracts and fame for their investigative reporting of the Watergate scandal. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Watergate tip fouled, ex-Times journalists say May 26, 2009
The story made journalistic icons of reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, who had been guided confidentially by a government official dubbed Deep Throat, in their 1974 book and the movie made from it two years later. After years of speculation about Deep Throat's identity, W. Mark Felt, a former FBI associate director, unmasked himself in 2005 as the legendary source. (Boston Globe)
Congressman Affleck meets the press May 22, 2009
Based on the non-fiction book by journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the Washington Post duo who uncovered the Watergate scandal that led president Nixon to resign. To prepare for their roles, Dustin Hoffman as Bernstein and Robert Redford as Woodward sat in on editorial meetings and spent time in the newsroom of The Washington Post for months prior to filming. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
State of Play Apr 17, 2009
In lieu of London, we're in Washington this time, where Cal (a blimped-up Russell Crowe) is a veteran reporter straight out of the Carl Bernstein school long-haired, rumpled, beefy, but with a Rolodex the size of the Lincoln Memorial. No doubt, the guy's got contacts on the Hill, not least with his buddy the up-and-coming congressman. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
MORE: Filmmaker cooks up a rich stew Apr 14, 2009
By Susan Wloszczyna, USA TODAY Anyone who has salivated over the recipes sprinkled throughout Heartburn, Nora Ephron's novelistic dig at ex-husband Carl Bernstein of Watergate fame, might guess that the author and filmmaker knows her way around a kitchen. But don't expect her to brag. (USA Today)
"Watchmen" Mar 6, 2009
" I'm shocked to be writing this, given the number of screenwriters, directors and studios this adaptation of and Dave Gibbons' ground-breaking 1986 anti-superhero comic series has gone through, but "Watchmen" is absolutely devastating. Dense, intense, tragic and visionary, this is the kind of movie that keeps setting off bombs in your brain hours after you've seen it. After coming out of the theater, I wandered the frozen streets of Manhattan watching passersby and wondering which was the real... (Salon)
Last Chance Harvey Mar 2, 2009
From the consumptive crank Ratso Rizzo in director John Schlesinger's 1969 drama Midnight Cowboy through the inept entertainer Chuck Clarke in Ishtar 18 years later, the highlights read like a film history textbook: among them, Jack Crabb in Little Big Man, David Sumner in Straw Dogs, Lenny Bruce in Lenny, Carl Bernstein in All the President's Men, Babe Levy in Marathon Man, Max Dembo in Straight Time and Michael Dorsey in Tootsie. Tellingly, it wasn't until Hoffman tackled the relatively... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Breakfast With ... Bob Woodward Mar 2, 2009
He and Carl Bernstein famously opened the floodgates for investigative journalism with their Watergate scandal expose that ultimately brought down President Richard Nixon. Since those heady days he has written 11 national bestselling non-fiction books (some were co-authored), including his latest, "The War Within," about the Bush administration. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Getting beyond the facts Mar 1, 2009
The 1960s and 1970s were the years when journalism as a profession rose in stature thanks to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein whose investigative work for The Washington Post led to the Watergate scandal and the eventual downfall of US president Richard Nixon. Beyond the Facts is very much in that same spirit, except that Panda, like other Indonesian journalists of his genre at the time, faced much more physical challenges than Woodward and Bernstein ever did. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Press freedom under attack worldwide Feb 10, 2009
Today, the greatest threats to freedom of the press are more insidious than a generation ago because they are intended to induce a climate of fear and self-censorship through systematic violence and emblematic arrest,'' journalist and author Carl Bernstein wrote in the report's preface. The report, titled ``Attacks on the Press,'' also notes that reporters in Africa rely on text messaging, though that same technology also is being used to threaten them. (India Times)
