This overwhelming sense of present relevance provided an anxious underpinning for the dramatic pleasures that unfolded Friday night when Mark Ruffalo and Ethan Hawke portrayed Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in a star-studded live reading of “All of the President’s Men” at Hollywood’s Harmony Gold Theater, followed by a lengthy panel discussion that got to the heart of the points of connection that can unite the film world and journalism. When the ask came in to play Deep Throat, he admitted, “I had never seen ‘All the President’s Men.’ When the movie came out, I was making a little movie called ‘Apocalypse Now’ in the Philippines, so I never got around to it.” Needless to say, in the intervening four days, Fishburne got around to both the Goldman script and the Alan J. Pakula-directed film, which he now is able to proclaim “a perfect movie.” He joined his fellow cast members in believing “it’s clear that the story is reflective of our times and the moment that we’re in now, with it being more and more dangerous and trepidatious for journalists to tell the truth.” We have a nation that is losing its mind, looking for answers and understanding, and we have a vice president who literally goes out in front of the nation and lies about everything, And there’s no credible news source to be able to work through and weed its way through what the truth is, because we don’t have a truth that we could all agree upon, because of a failing of the media.
Author: Chris Willman
Published at: 2026-01-11 21:32:43
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