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The angry buzz over “The Reagans” has grown louder and more pointed. “Advertisers will bail on CBS’ anti-Reagan movie,” commentator Pat Buchanan predicted on “The McLaughlin Group” Sunday. Two days later, a conservative media watchdog group announced a boycott call-to-arms. But CBS isn't showing signs of regretting its excursion into political drama. Based on experience, observers say, it probably doesn’t need to. “The bottom line is, the more attention it (the miniseries) gets, the more people are going to watch it,” said television analyst Marc Berman of Media Week Online. That spells opportunity for sponsors and ad dollars for CBS,...

The upcoming CBS mini-series on President Ronald Reagan portrays him as a foul-mouthed buffoon who repeatedly used profanity - behavior he never exhibited in real life, his son Michael said Thursday. "It's horrendous, it's absolutely horrendous," Michael Reagan complained, after viewing eight minutes worth of excerpts of the film, which stars James Brolin, husband of Reagan-hater Barbra Streisand, as the fortieth president. "They paint my father as a buffoon," the former first son-turned radio host told fellow talker Sean Hannity. "They also have my dad taking God's name in vain in an angry, angry way . . . They...