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ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN REVISITED
April 21, 2013  | By David Bianculli

Discovery, 8:00 p.m. ET

 
This new two-hour documentary is overwhelmingly about Watergate itself, not the movie it inspired – though Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman reunite to talk, as do the reporters they portrayed, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. As a Watergate recap, it’s impressively detailed even on the most complicated bits: the Saturday night massacre, the drama of the hearings, and so on. New interviews with Tom Brokaw, Jon Stewart and a surprisingly tearful Ben Stein (a former speechwriter for Richard Nixon) add a lot, though the absence is felt, on the movie side, of such key players as William Goldman (who wrote the screenplay) and Hal Holbrook (who played Deep Throat). Even so, this Revisited documentary is well worth visiting — as is Ed Bark's related interview with Robert Redford in Uncle Barky's Bytes.
 
 
 
 
 
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