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applegrove

(118,642 posts)
Mon Sep 4, 2017, 08:46 PM Sep 2017

9PM CNN " The Reagan Show" tonight. See the acting and the stagecraft.

"SNIP.......

The Reagan Show is an all-archival film documenting President Reagan's eight years in the White House. Archival news footage from the era augments this fly-on-the-wall perspective on the dramatic history and pageantry of the Reagan years.


......SNIP"

I hope the right wingers are going to watch and realize it was all a put on. That they really were not connected to him. And that he didn't know what he was talking about.

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9PM CNN " The Reagan Show" tonight. See the acting and the stagecraft. (Original Post) applegrove Sep 2017 OP
lived it, couldn't stand to watch it again. spanone Sep 2017 #1
Well it did start off with a bang Zorro Sep 2017 #2
Not funny. applegrove Sep 2017 #3
Lighten up, Francis Zorro Sep 2017 #8
Who is Francis? applegrove Sep 2017 #9
Well Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2017 #4
I'll have to... Mike Nelson Sep 2017 #5
I was there, am here now, a crooked line between benld74 Sep 2017 #6
The Truman Show (film) was the harbinger of all reality shows as was Network (film) BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #7
I don't know. I saw Network and The Truman Show in the theater and neither were funny to me. Zen Democrat Sep 2017 #10
Yip, displaying Pres-dent Doofus, where MAGA came from (his writers) UTUSN Sep 2017 #11
A D-list actor (I'm being generous)... 3catwoman3 Sep 2017 #12

BigmanPigman

(51,590 posts)
7. The Truman Show (film) was the harbinger of all reality shows as was Network (film)
Mon Sep 4, 2017, 08:57 PM
Sep 2017

the harbinger of "news as entertainment". We laughed at the time but who is laughing now? Real vs. fake?

What is the current harbinger? I am afraid to ask and to know.



Zen Democrat

(5,901 posts)
10. I don't know. I saw Network and The Truman Show in the theater and neither were funny to me.
Mon Sep 4, 2017, 09:43 PM
Sep 2017

I thought they were drama. But, I agree, they were harbinger movies, and not of good tidings!

3catwoman3

(23,975 posts)
12. A D-list actor (I'm being generous)...
Mon Sep 4, 2017, 11:41 PM
Sep 2017

...completely miscast in a role for which he was completely unsuited. And now, we have a reality TV star doing a re-make of that display of incompetence.

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