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Coming soon: All the President’s women
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Coming soon: All the President’s women
Superstars Meryl Streep, Gwyneth Paltrow and Annette Bening are teaming up for a new movie about the Watergate scandal that toppled ex-US president Richard Nixon. Streep, 56, who has won two Oscars and been nominated for a record 13, will play Martha Mitchell, the whistle-blowing wife of former US attorney general John Mitchell. Martha Mitchell became famous during the scandal that led to Nixon’s 1974 resignation to avoid impeachment, for her revealing late-night telephone calls to journalists that earned her nicknames such as ‘the mouth that roared’. Her revelations to journalists, including Bob Woodward, who broke news of the Watergate scandal, and veteran white house correspondent Helen Thomas firmly implicated her husband in the same scandal. The creator of the hit television show nip/tuck, Ryan Murphy, will write and direct the film that will be produced for Hollywood’s paramount pictures by movie icon Brad Pitt and Dede Gardner of Plan B productions, a paper said yesterday. The film stars big names, all of whom have carved a niche for themselves in the industry. Oscar-nominated actress Bening will play Thomas, who worked for United Press International, while Paltrow with take on the role of Maureen Dean, the wife of white house counsel John Dean, who stood firmly by her husband when he was dragged into the fray. Veteran actress Jill Clayburgh will play the president’s wife, Pat Nixon, who grew to loathe Mitchell for destabilising the presidency, according to Variety. Nixon’s administration did its best to silence southern belle Martha Mitchell with a series of dirty tricks” after she began speaking too freely about the events surrounding the political firestorm.
<I>Source: Times of India</I>
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