Meryl should be so proud
Very proud
Her performance was to die for
Any movie with Streep and Hanks star in it will have political overtone points they expose to when related to media or government. Especially a Speilburg film.
His father, Phil Graham, married the heiress of the Washington Post’s owner, Eugene Meyer.
Phil Graham had an interesting history, served in the Pacific as intelligence officer with the Far East Air Force, set up in 1944.
He was also one of the clique that helped pave the path for JFK presidential run and remained and advisor and speech writer for JFK and Johnson.
As such an intimate of Jack Kennedy he had a first row seat to JFKs not so secret philandering.
Leading up to his purported suicide, Katherine Graham in her biography claimed Phil suffered from depression.
Among the events preceeding the suicide...
“....Through the Post Company’s Newsweek arm, Graham eventually met Australian journalist Robin Webb, and in 1962 they began an affair.
In 1963, he and Webb flew to Arizona; he appeared at a newspaper publishing convention inebriated and/or manic.
At the microphone he made a number of provocative comments, including the revelation that Kennedy was sleeping with Mary Pinchot Meyer [ later found murdered along the C&O Canal towpath in posh Georgetown neighborhood ].
His assistant, James Truitt, called for his doctor, Leslie Farber, who flew in by private jet, as did (subsequently) Graham’s wife. Graham was sedated, bound in a straitjacket, and flown back to Washington.
He was committed for five days to Chestnut Lodge, a psychiatric hospital in Rockville, Maryland.
Graham then left his wife for Robin Webb, announced to his friends that he planned to divorce his wife and immediately remarry, and indicated that he wanted to purchase sole control of the Post Company...
Maybe some enterprising WAPO reporter will seek to emulate Woodward and Bernstein and revist the demise of Phil Graham and ....
Just kidding.
Even more so since the portrayal is likely picture perfect.
“The unbearable pain of Meryl Streep, the hagfish harridan, portraying one’s mother is reason enough commit suicide.”
Wish she would do a film about Obama’s mother.
Did you know that she "...had a farm in Africa"? Always been a fraud as an actress and as a human being.