Makers of ``The Reagans'' complain about CBS `butchering' movie

Associated Press ^ | 11-24-03 | DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer

[Oldeconomybuyer]

NEW YORK (AP) -- The director of "The Reagans" complained Monday that CBS' butchered his made-for-TV movie, ultimately making it too incoherent for the network to air.

"We were, in a sense, banished" from the editing process before CBS ditched it, director Robert Ackerman said.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Vermin.

[dagnabbit]

Let them sell it to Cuban or N. Koean state TV. Oops, sorry, no capitalism means no ad revenue, means no money for idiot shows like this one.

[BunnySlippers]

I suppose it was a masterpiece before editing.

[Paleoguy]

This hatchet-job of a movie is yet one more example of why pop culture must die so that America might live

[MegaSilver]

The director of "The Reagans" complained Monday that CBS' butchered his made-for-TV movie, ultimately making it too incoherent for the network to air.

Cry me a river.

The directors' cuts of movies are QUITE OFTEN adulterated. If he can't deal, he's in the wrong biz.

[HardStarboard]

I complained about the "Makers of The Reagans" butchering Reagan.

Babs, go soak your hot head in ice water - then you'll be the same temperature all over - ice cold.... as in frigid!

[ex-Texan]

When their lousy defamatory film is released in the U.K. they will soon learn all about butchery. Libel laws are tougher and there is no New York Times v. Sullivan requirement to prove "actual malice." I predict it will get very bloody indeed for the producers, directors, writers and actors.

[Map Kernow]

"The film being taken off the air ... appears to be an attack on free speech," said Davis, who plays Nancy Reagan. "We don't like what we suspect you might be saying, so we'll do everything in our power to remove it from a major network so people can't hear what you're saying."

Typical ignorant media leftist comment. No government agency at any level was involved in the campaign to cancel "The Reagans." Therefore it makes no sense to call it an "attack on free speech."

To the contrary, it was a victory for free speech: ordinary Americans who had neither millions of dollars nor ownership of a television network spoke out against CBS' outrageously mendacious gay fascist hit piece against President Reagan, and in the contest of opposing "free speech" positions, the "free speech" of ordinary Americans won.

[TontoKowalski]

His co-star, Judy Davis, criticized the "level of censorship" involved in CBS' cancellation of the movie.

Funny. I thought "censorship" was when the Government limited the dissemination of "offensive" material. I didn't know the Feds had anything to do with this whole sorry episode...

I also like how she thinks that people have a RIGHT to have their views displayed on network TV:

Blahblahblah "Free Speech" blahblahblah "We don't like what we suspect you might be saying, so we'll do everything in our power to remove it from a major network so people can't hear what you're saying."

[freekitty]

Gee, I wonder what they thought as they went about butchering the Reagans life?

[hattend]

His co-star, Judy Davis, criticized the "level of censorship" involved in CBS' cancellation of the movie.

"The film being taken off the air ... appears to be an attack on free speech," said Davis, who plays Nancy Reagan. "We don't like what we suspect you might be saying, so we'll do everything in our power to remove it from a major network so people can't hear what you're saying."

Somebody please explain to Ms. Davis (an Australian) that if it was censorship, the stars and producers would have been jailed, the film would have been collected by a SWAT team and burned and nobody could have seen it (on Showtime or otherwise).

This was a business decision, pure and simple.

[hoot2]

"I was told it was going to be a love story,..."

it is...
demonRATS "love to HATE anything or anyone that is good, wholesome, moral, decent, and or conservative...

"the truth shall set you free"

[Arpege92]

"The film being taken off of the air ... appears to be an attack on free speech."

Wrong....No one forced CBS to cancel this movie. What these liberals don't understand is that free speech is the right of all Americans. If I find fault with this movie, then I am free to not see it and I'm free to encourage other folks to do the same thing.

IMHO....Free speech is alive and kicking for everyone!

[Levante]

"Neil Meron, one of the film's producers, said the filmmakers' only point of view was to humanize Ronald and Nancy Reagan."

Oh, B.S.!!!! This crap film is about DE-humanizing President and Mrs. Reagan!!!!!

Idiots!!!!

[Calvin Locke]

Moonves could have decided to run it commercial-free.

Or Babs and Les could have sponsored it themselves.

Or Judy Davis could have sponsored it with a grant from the Australian Film Board. Or the Film Board of Canada. Wasn't it made up there?

I'm surprised PBS isn't running it for "gimme" drives

[longtermmemmory]

Reagan supporters said there was no evidence that the former president ever said any such thing.

Note the evil in writing. Somehow this implies that
Reagan detractors have evidence of the aids line.
Somehow only supporters don't believe it. This ap reporter must be a homosexual supporter of the aids agenda.

The left trying to pigeon hole those who do not support them.

[longtermmemmory]

Reagan supporters said there was no evidence that the
former president ever said any such thing.

Note the evil in writing. Somehow this implies that
Reagan detractors have evidence of the aids line.
Somehow only supporters don't believe it. This ap reporter
must be a homosexual supporter of the aids agenda. The left trying to pigeon hole those who do not support them.