Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford.
Posted on 04/14/2022 7:26:36 PM PDT by simpson96
"First Ladies and their teams are often the vanguards of social progress in this country, despite no budget and no pay," writes Betty Ford (Michelle Pfeiffer) to Michelle Obama (Viola Davis) in the tenth and final episode of Showtime's The First Lady. The sentiment serves as the thesis for this anthology series from creator Aaron Cooley and director Susanne Bier, a well-meaning but ponderous effort that wastes a trio of extraordinary actresses with its dull and cursory storytelling.
Despite its singular title, The First Lady insists on cramming three presidential spouses — Mrs. Obama, Mrs. Ford, and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt (Gillian Anderson) — and multiple administrations into each hour-long episode. The series introduces them at pivotal moments in their husbands' political career: FDR (Kiefer Sutherland) falling ill with polio and launching his NY gubernatorial campaign in the 1920s; Gerald Ford (Aaron Eckhart) being nominated to replace Spiro Agnew as Vice President in 1973; and Barack Obama (O-T Fagbenle) arriving at the White House with his wife and young daughters in 2008.
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Betty Ford's life alone could fuel several limited series: Former dance student of Martha Graham, outspoken supporter of abortion rights and the ERA, a recovering addict who built a world-famous rehab center in the desert. The same holds true for Eleanor Roosevelt or Michelle Obama, yet all of their stories are divvied up into greatest-hits bits, and the show ultimately plays like a prestige (and repetitive) reenactment of each First Lady's Wikipedia page.
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Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford.
“Barack Obama (O-T FAGbenle)”
Talk about typecasting...
Did Denzel Washington play Michelle?
Nope, it was Tyler Perry in his Madea costume. Spitting image of Big Mike.
Put the late Sam Cooke and the Reverend LeeRoy together and you have Barak Obama. That’s how he won.
Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt?! GMAFB!
WHAT THE.....
Melania was the first decent person to be first lady in decades.
Betty Ford had a dope clinic named after her. Nancy Reagan was into astrology and raised two American hating kids. Babs Bush was a mean old sow who everybody said was a bully and thought it was funny. And she raised a whole pack of neocon anti-American whelps. Very likely served finger sandwiches and coffee to The men Who plotted the JFK assassination in her living room. When she came into
the room, nobody bothered to stop talking. Then we have Hillary Macbeth Clinton the psycho, lesbo, coked-out, liquor-soggy communist lesbian grifter. We are not truly sure whether or not she has had people murdered but it cannot be dismissed. A pervert who is into pedophile creeps like Podesta and Epstein. Move on to another Bush woman, raised more anti-American whelps, supports abortion. Then Michelle Obama who’s never liked America and even said so, race Hustler, embarrassed America everywhere she went with her fat butt, tried to starve America’s schoolchildren have to death but managed to find her way to the table just the same. We are unclear as to whether or not it might be a man.
Melania was the first decent person to be first lady in decades
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I used to feel the same way until she made the video probably announcing that Donald Trump was the first president to enter office supporting sodomite marriage. And now that it appears she pushed Trump into endorsing the sick transgender pushing freak Dr.Oz, I’d say she is as twisted as they come.
Ah but my friend’s Scottie got a gig playing Fala in the FDR portion
Somglad I will never watch this worthless show.
Maybe Juicy the french actor played her. I mean, he’d gave to stretch and play a more masculine character, pad his shoulders, etc
I remember the 1992 election. Media pundits referred to Barbara as Bush's "secret weapon" because she was so beloved by ordinary Americans that putting into the spotlight was bound to improve Bush's chances for reelection.
Both conservative media (i.e., National Review) and liberal media conceded that Barbara was loved by all Americans.
This is the first I heard that "everybody said she was a bully."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-18/barbara-bush-was-no-wimp/9671520
https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1992/08/williams199208
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-19-mn-5603-story.html
“She was warm and wonderful to you — till you got out of line,” George W. Bush
Sniffy Biden is upset because they didn’t include FLOTUS Kamala Harris.
Good summary.
Her father was Aleister Crowley.
Perhaps Barbara Bush spent some time on the grassy knoll.
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