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'Frost/Nixon' is un-sexy/unworthy of Oscar

Senior Reporter
Published Friday, January 30, 2009

Of all of this year’s Best Picture nominees, Ron Howards’s “Frost/Nixon” is the least sexy. Even Holocaust-themed “The Reader” features full-frontal male nudity and Kate Winslet’s bare breasts. Come to think of it, “Frost/Nixon” probably deserves the award for Un-sexiest Film of the Year, and not merely because it lacks R-rated content — though, perplexingly, it is an R-rated film. “Frost/Nixon” is about un-sexy topics like television journalism, the late 1970s, Richard Nixon and even un-sexiness itself. In spite of all this, the film succeeds at holding the audience’s attention through...

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