Dog days on THIRTEEN
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With the dog days of summer approaching — although they’re not really dog days, are they, in a summer that’s more like spring —THIRTEEN is keeping us entertained. Tonight, the PBS station has one of the biggest musical stars of the 1950s, Mitzi Gaynor, at 8, followed by one of the biggest folkies of the ‘70s, Leonard Cohen (at 9:30).
Tomorrow night at 8, THIRTEEN has David Frost’s actual interviews with President Richard Nixon that inspired the “Frost/Nixon” movie. I can’t wait for that. I always thought Frost was a penetrating conversationalist. His interviews with the likes of Orson Welles and Richard Burton in the ‘70s were fascinating stuff.
If you missed “Frost/Nixon,” rent it. Frank Langella got most of the kudos for his deserving turn as Nixon. But Michael Sheen — who was a fabulous Tony Blair and a transcendent Mozart in the 1999 Broadway revival of “Amadeus” — matches Langella as Frost, the seeming featherweight who finds his inner Ali to bring down a titan.
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