Find trailers, reviews, synopsis, awards and cast information for Gun: All the President's Women (1997) - Robert Altman on AllMovie - Bill (Randy Quaid), a wealthy Texan, is fooling…. All the President's Men is a 1976 American political thriller film directed by Alan J. which Redford owns, produced a two-hour documentary entitled 'All The Presidents Men' Revisited. (1997) Works by William Goldman. . the country with most female Heads of State is San Marino. Acting President: 9 February 1997 11. Women Presidents and Women Governors-General.State of Affairs: All the president's women. JAMES CROOT. Last updated 0. February 2. 2 2. 01. NBCInsider knowledge: Alfre Woodard has drawn on a lifetime of political activism to play the President of the United States in the new series of Affairs. As Alfre Woodard mentioned the possibility she might take a part playing the US president, her good friend Barack Obama was quick to suggest he should charge her a consultation fee. Woodward was equally swift to warn the real president against: " 'No, Mr President you're going to want to distance yourself as far as possible from Constance Taylor's administration' ", she says. Woodard's version of the president, on the new show State of Affairs, not only deals with the daily pressures of the job, but her search for justice for her son, killed in Kabul a year earlier. NBCOut for justice: Charleston Tucker (Katherine Heigl) and Constance Taylor (Woodard) plan their next move in of Affairs."You've got to have something juicy these days," the former St Elsewhere and Desperate Housewives star says of the show's conceit. It's a conspiracy drama with tonnes of threads of conspiracy and a whole lot of drama." And, she says: "Who doesn't want to be president? It's like when you're little and you're playing games and make believe – 'I'll be President', 'I'll be the Queen', 'I'll be the Pope'."My first shoot was out on Long Island, while a convoy was under attack in Kabul. I thought as the President my role would be pretty sedate – I just have to hang around the White House, but no, the writing has me in all kinds of situations and I love that it is our world everyday."It's not even ripped from the headlines, it is just mirroring the actual state of affairs in the world today."Politically active since she was 1. Woodard has been around Washington since she reach adulthood: "First, I was standing in front of the buildings, shouting, trying to end apartheid. I've always believed that if you live in a representative democracy, and don't represent or get involved way past voting then the thing doesn't work."Then after storming the ramparts, I learned that you have to come inside if you want to try to change and influence policy. I spent my late 2. My son and I had Obama's very last appointment the night before he announced. Then I worked 2. 0 months on his first campaign and eight months on his re- election, on the President's Committee for Arts and Humanities. I work with the first lady a lot and I am in the White House more than a regular citizen would be. I know the protocols, the politics, how the government works and the people inside it. Also, how you can get things done when it's not stalled to a grinding halt."So has that knowledge proved useful to State of Affairs' writing team? Absolutely, they depend on me. Actually everybody comes from a different starting point and from so many different disciplines. Share this Rating. Title: All the President's Women (Video 1997) 4.1 /10. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. Highlight. Browse the fourth issue of BFI Filmmakers magazine; I want to… See projects backed by the BFI. Get help as a new filmmaker. Find out what BFI Player means for UK distributors. Read industry research and statistics. GET INFORMED. Industry information at your fingertips. GET CONNECTED. Over 200,000 Hollywood insiders. GET DISCOVERED. Enhance your IMDb Page. Go to IMDbPro » |. All the President's Men (and Women). From Jimmy Kelly (SU President 1996/97), who fought to keep the price of beer down, to Tobias Barker. Matthew Pendergast 1997/98. Tobias Barker 2011/12. Two of our seven executive producers are former CIA. Rodney Faraon was an analyst to two presidents and Henry Crumpton was a field operative."Woodard's theory on the wave of American political shows such as State of Affairs, Homeland and Madam Secretary is America's "navel- gazing": "It's a big ass country and looking across it is a big deal. Only certain segments of our society are interested in the broader world, unless something reminds them of their own community."But I think after 9/1. How did this happen?' D'uh, wake up guys, it didn't happen in a vacuum. There's a reason and history that led up to it. The idea of war we had for centuries has changed radically. There is no standing army. All of us are vulnerable to this amorphous thing you can't put your hand on and that's when I think regular people realised, 'oh, there's a world out there and this is where I fit in it. The CIA isn't some distant thing anymore, it affects my life in De Moines and I've got an opinion about this'."Once you know about that you then think, 'who are the people who do all of this'? That's when you can come in and tell the story of the human beings behind all of the headlines."So with all of the drama on Affairs rooted in reality, is Constance an easy character to leave behind? No, and I don't want to. When I'm not working that's what I do anyway – in Zimbabwe, South Africa, DC, Uganda or Sweden. In America, I'm in desperate neighbourhoods and failing schools. It's a place that I am invigorated by, challenged by and that's what my life is."If you're an athlete and you want to keep your fitness, skills and mental toughness up, you just want to say 'put me in coach'. You can't sit by and be a thinking person in this world today and do nothing. I can't understand people who can just sit by a pool and not go across town to feed somebody. How can you say you've got nothing to do today? Have you looked around your own neighbourhood? Not to mention the world!"Woodard says the President hasn't seen her show yet. No, and I wouldn't be so gauche as to ask him."I talk to the first lady about a lot of education work and I would imagine at the end of the day, if he did have an hour I doubt that he'd want to turn onto something that mirrors ISIS. I know I wouldn't want to escape into the world of terrorism. I think he's watching The Voice instead."State of Affairs Monday, 9. TV3. - Sunday Star Times.
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