CBS 'REAGAN' REVEALED: WATCH NANCY HIT DAUGHTER, SEE RONNIE CURSE

Drudge Report ^ | 10-24-2003 | Matt Drudge

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CBS 'REAGAN' REVEALED: WATCH NANCY HIT DAUGHTER, SEE RONNIE CURSE

**Exclusive Details**

Former first lady Nancy Reagan has reached out to Hollywood heavyweights, including Merv Griffin, to somehow stop an upcoming CBS-TV movie about her life and times with Ronald Reagan.

A concerned legal department at CBS repeatedly called producers of the upcoming miniseries THE REAGANS, during filming, looking for assurances that shocking claims made in the telefilm could be backed up, productions sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT. Irritated producers reminded the network they had already cleared the script, with few notes!

THE REAGANS is now at the center of a media and political firestorm.

Insinuations that Nancy pill-popped are scattered throughout the story, as are repeated allegations that Ronald Reagan was homophobic, and was suffering from Alzheimer's disease as early as 1984. [Nancy rushes to a doctor to warn that her husband is forgetting things.]

Actress Judy Davis's portrayal of Nancy Reagan appears to be inspired by the Joan Crawford camp biopic MOMMIE DEAREST; wild mood swings, dramatic lighting, and tart-mouth insults are hysterically delivered by Davis.

[The showcase line "Ketchup is a vegetable! It is not a meat, right? So IT IS a vegetable" is likely to become the "No wire hangers ever!" camp highlight of the season.]

One camp scene shows Nancy and Ron both standing nude [wrapped in towels] when they first learn from NBC's John Chancellor they have won the election.

Pages 32, 33 of script:

INT. REAGANS' HOUSE -- PACIFIC PALISADES -- DAY

A FILM CREW is swarming all over the living room, setting up lights, cameras, etc. Reagan sits in the middle, putting on his own make-up.

INT. UPSTAIRS -- PATTI'S BEDROOM

Nancy arguing with Patti, (age 5), who won't come down.

NANCY: Come on, Patti. They're all set to go.

PATTI: No. I won't. I want to stay up here and play.

Nancy grits her teeth, and takes Patti by the wrist.

NANCY: No arguing. We're going down, right now.

PATTI: No! No! No! No! NO! NO!

Nancy reaches out, and slaps Patti. Patti reels, holding her cheek. Nancy

freezes.

*** Nancy is shown talking with her own mother in one flashback.

Page 16 of script:

NANCY'S STEP-FATHER: Nancy, I don't know what you see in Hollywood. As far as I can tell, it's nothing but Communists and drug addicts.

NANCY: It didn't used to be this bad -- did it, Mother?

NANCY'S MOTHER, EDITH: Hell, no. When I was here, it was just wall-to-wall Jews and queers.

****

President Reagan, played by James Brolin, is shown cursing his staff during one Oval Office meeting.

Pages. 152 of script:

REAGAN: "Rank amateur"! Who does that sonofabitch think he is? I'm the goddam President of the United States, I'm his boss!

****

Lawyers for CBS have growing concern that few of the most-intimate scenes created for THE REAGANS have much historical documentation or on-the-record witness corroboration.

Complicating matters is the film's charge that Reagan believed AIDS was biblical revenge -- as actor James Brolin finds his family in a real-life fight with the disease!

An immediate member of the Brolin/Streisand family is currently suffering from HIV, according to press reports.

During a scene in the film which his wife pleads with him to help people battling AIDS, Reagan says resolutely, "They that live in sin shall die in sin" and refuses to discuss the issue further.

Actor Brolin delivers the uncorroborated words with extra confidence.

In 1992, Streisand wrote an essay condemning Reagan over AIDS:

"I will never forgive my fellow actor Ronald Reagan for his refusal to even utter the word AIDS for seven years, and for blocking adequate funding for research and education, which could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Then came George Bush, once the moderate, who, in a Faustian bargain, allied himself with the same primitive, gay-bashing, immoral minority."

Streisand, who spent weeks on the set of THE REAGANS, did not return calls seeking comment.

Developing...

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Nancy, I hope you sue the ASSES off both the producers AND the network.

-Dan

[observer5]

Complicating matters is the film's charge that Reagan believed AIDS was biblical revenge...

It sure is...

[Jewels1091]

I'm thinking that this is going to backfire pretty badly for CBS...when this is aired everyone including Merv is going to be on air telling the truth! Then the lawsuits will start and it's going to cost in people who finally admit there is a bias to CBS...if advertisers pull out and people write to CBS maybe they will get the hint that they can't put two nights of lies on TV and call it the truth...people have why too many ways of finding the truth these days.

[So Cal Rocket]

Has anyone compiled a list of sponsors yet for this show?

It's time to make some contact with them and let them know in no uncertain terms that the public will boycott their product for sponsoring this tripe.

[Semper Paratus]

Sounds so over the top, I hope they show it and reap a Sh** Storm.

[rovenstinez]

I'm sure I got slapped once by my mother. She used to wake me up after I was asleep saying she was sorry. I used to laugh. I knew I needed it. Poor Nancy! May the one without sin, cast the first stone.

[BibChr]

Mercy, this sounds foul.

Of course, when CBS gets around to doing the lives of the Clintons, it will be fierce, scathing, unsparing.

< /EXTREME sarcasm >

Dan

[chemicalman]

Of course, when CBS gets around to doing the lives of the Clintons, it will be fierce, scathing, unsparing.

At the local XXX theater.

[cwb]

O'Reilly had Nancy's secretary and one of Ronalds biographers on his show last night. They both said this AIDs issue is pure BS. Reagan was sympathetic to the AIDS issue especially when his freind Rock Hudson came down with it. The debate over the compassion for AIDs had to do with money and how resources should be allocated to deal with it. At this time, AIDS was even claimed to be transfered by saliva and there was a general hysteria from many in the medical community, alone. You had multiple camps with multiple theories about AIDs and how to deal with it...and this idea that Reagan set a negative tone is rediculous. You couldn't even get those in-the-know at the CDC/NIH and even the WHO to agree on treatment and the allocation of funds. Reagan also had many other issues on his plate at this time.

[BibChr]

Not to mention the fact that seeing AIDS, in some cases, as a consequence for immoral behavior and believing in extending compassion to those afflicted with it are not mutually exclusive.

Dan

[CheneyChick]

No kidding. They probably airbrush a halo around the Clintoons' heads.

FWIW, nobody I know wants to watch the farce this Sunday. Everyone is pretty much disgusted and turned off. I hope the backlash on CBS does irreparable damage to the network. What they are doing is shameful.

[elfman2]

"It sure is... [AIDS was biblical revenge... ]"

On only matters that Reagan’s not attributed with such self righteous, unsupportable statements.

If you want to selectively call one man's suffering “biblical revenge”, arbitrarily dismissing similar claims that 9/11 or some US natural disaster was “God’s revenge”, who cares. This is still a free county.

[TheBattman]

Now that the country is actually starting to view the Regan years as a positive thing, the liberals are going to do anything (including their favorite activity - lying) to disparage any conservative who has existed.

blocking adequate funding for research and education, which could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

So Barbara Big-Nose thinks that it's Regans fault that AIDS is deadly? I see the cure that came out of Clintoon's two terms - after all, he was such a supporter of AIDS research (probably because he though there was a chance he would wind up with it...) -

Wait - you tell me that there still is no cure? You are kidding, right? Haven't we pumped truckloads of our tax dollars into research for Aids? You tell me that the only thing showing for all the millions of dollars are some "treatments" that can somewhat delay the onset of AIDS symptoms? Oh, yeah, I forgot my College Biology class - mankind has yet to find a CURE for ANY VIRUS......

Yep, sounds like it's all Ronnie's fault, alright.

[1Old Pro]

I hope Naancy has a huge undriaser and buys the commercial time during the show to rebut their false claimes and lies.

[ikka]

This is the CBS equivalent of the work that got Arnett fired from CNN.

[DannyTN]

I think we ought to call all of CBS's biggest advertisers (not just advertisers for the Reagan Smear Show).

Below is a list of the top 25 advertisers from 2000, but I don't have phone numbers. I don't know if they all advertise with CBS or not. I have a hunch Disney will be a sponser of the Smear.


General Motors Corp. Detroit
Philip Morris Cos. New York
Procter & Gamble Co. Cincinnati
Ford Motor Co. Dearborn, Mich.
Pfizer New York
PepsiCo Purchase, N.Y.
DaimlerChrysler Auburn Hills, Mich./Stuttgart, Germany
AOL Time Warner New York
Walt Disney Co. Burbank, Calif.
Verizon Communications New York
Johnson & Johnson New Brunswick, N.J.
Sears, Roebuck & Co. Hoffman Estates, Ill.
Unilever London/Rotterdam
AT Corp. Basking Ridge, N.J.
General Electric Co. Fairfield, Conn.
Toyota Motor Corp. Toyota City, Japan
McDonald's Corp. Oak Brook, Ill.
U.S. Government Washington
Sprint Corp. Westwood, Kan.
Viacom New York
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. New York
IBM Corp. Armonk, N.Y.
Federated Department Stores Cincinnati
GlaxoSmithKline Greenford, Middlesex, U.K. Diageo London

[alaskanfan]

Why is it never mentioned that AIDS is 100% preventable.

[jimbo123]

http://www.cbs.com/sales/contact/contact.shtml

CBS Advertising Sales Contacts

[jimbo123]

http://www.cbs.com/sales/

[ZULU]

I wish she would too. I would send a contribution.

How can we contact the TV Station to express our outrage and disapproval of this travesty??

If the mainstream stations continue to go the way they are they will loose all public credibility like the LA Times and NY Times have. FOX News already has beat out all its competitors.