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1 year, 6 months ago

How ‘White House Plumbers’ creators put a juicy, new spin on the familiar Watergate story

LA Times

We’ve seen the Watergate story through the eyes of the reporters who broke it. But there’s always another angle, and HBO’s five-part limited series “White House Plumbers” found a juicy one. Also last year, Starz released the limited series “Gaslit.” Like “White House Plumbers,” it focuses on the perspectives of peripheral figures, including Martha Mitchell, the wife of Attorney General …

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1 year, 6 months ago

White House Plumbers review: Woody Harrelson is terrific company but fails to lift buddy comedy out of Watergate fatigue

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The 1972 burglary of the Democratic National Committee offices …

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1 year, 6 months ago

White House Plumbers: Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux on their new Watergate series

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “I’m joking, but I’m half not joking.” Watergate storytelling is often treated with a kind …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Don’t miss this week: Ed Sheeran, Watergate, Pete Davidson

Associated Press

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music and video game platforms this week. NEW MOVIES TO STREAM — In “A Man Called Otto,” Tom Hanks stars as a despondent and ornery widower whose suicide plans keep getting foiled by the needs of his neighbors. In my review, I …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Review: ‘White House Plumbers’ reenacts the mishaps of Watergate’s operatives for laughs

LA Times

Outside of home repair, the word “plumbers” nowadays most quickly brings to mind a pair of Italian brothers in overalls. Nominally based on the 2007 memoir “Integrity: Good People, Bad Choices, and Life Lessons from the White House,” by Egil “Bud” Krogh, head of Richard Nixon’s Special Investigation Unit — called the Plumbers, because its purpose was to stop leaks …

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1 year, 8 months ago

White House Plumbers trailer shows Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux as Watergate masterminds

Daily Mail

The Watergate break-in and the controversy that surrounded it will be told from an all new perspective in the new trailer for the HBO series White House Plumbers. The series stars Woody Harrelson - who hosted Saturday Night Live late last month - as E. Howard Hunt and Justin Theroux as G. Gordon Liddy, the political saboteurs responsible for the …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Opinion: The essential difference between Nixon and Trump, according to John Dean

CNN

CNN — “It’s a story we shouldn’t forget.” Fifty years later, that’s how John Dean, the former White House counsel whose marathon testimony before the US Senate’s Watergate Committee tipped the dominoes toward the ultimate resignation of President Richard M. Nixon, describes what happened to him, the people he worked with and the American people following the June 17, 1972 …

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3 years, 8 months ago

G. Gordon Liddy, Watergate mastermind, dead at 90

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — G. Gordon Liddy, a mastermind of the Watergate burglary and a radio talk show host after emerging from prison, died Tuesday at age 90 at his daughter’s home in Virginia. Liddy was head of a team of Republican operatives known as “the plumbers,” whose mission was to find leakers of information embarrassing to the Nixon administration. After the …

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3 years, 8 months ago

G. Gordon Liddy, Watergate mastermind, dead at 90

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — G. Gordon Liddy, a mastermind of the Watergate burglary and a radio talk show host after emerging from prison, died Tuesday at age 90 at his daughter’s home in Virginia. Liddy was head of a team of Republican operatives known as “the plumbers,” whose mission was to find leakers of information embarrassing to the Nixon administration. After the …

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3 years, 8 months ago

G. Gordon Liddy, unrepentant Watergate burglar who became talk show host, has died

LA Times

G. Gordon Liddy, the tough-guy Watergate operative who went to prison rather than testify and later turned his Nixon-era infamy into a successful television and talk show career, has died at age 90. He became a sought-after public speaker, a far-right radio talk show host who called himself the “G Man” — “This is Radio Free D.C., and I’m G. …

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How ‘White House Plumbers’ creators put a juicy, new spin on the familiar Watergate story

White House Plumbers review: Woody Harrelson is terrific company but fails to lift buddy comedy out of Watergate fatigue

White House Plumbers: Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux on their new Watergate series

Don’t miss this week: Ed Sheeran, Watergate, Pete Davidson

Review: ‘White House Plumbers’ reenacts the mishaps of Watergate’s operatives for laughs

White House Plumbers trailer shows Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux as Watergate masterminds

Opinion: The essential difference between Nixon and Trump, according to John Dean

G. Gordon Liddy, Watergate mastermind, dead at 90

G. Gordon Liddy, Watergate mastermind, dead at 90

G. Gordon Liddy, unrepentant Watergate burglar who became talk show host, has died