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Good cast for this Nixon film, even if you don't agree with the politics.

Inexplicably, Hollywood still loves to hate Nixon. I say ‘inexplicably’ because Richard Nixon has not been president for over 30 years, yet chi-chi Hollywood liberals still ostentatiously parade their Nixon-loathing in public as a kind of rusty badge of honor. And so today comes news from Variety that Gwyneth Paltrow, Meryl Streep, Annette Bening and Jill Clayburgh have signed on to star in the ‘historical drama’ Dirty Tricks for Paramount. The film is based on the John Jeter play which essentially lionizes Martha Mitchell (wife of Richard Nixon’s attorney general, John Mitchell), who stumbled onto evidence of the Watergate break-in.