DAVID FROST - FROST SLAMS FROST/NIXON AS 'FICTION'

FROST SLAMS FROST/NIXON AS 'FICTION'

Veteran journalist DAVID FROST has called FROST/NIXON 'fiction' because movie chiefs changed some of the key historical facts for entertainment value.
The new Ron Howard-directed film is based on a series of interviews former U.S. President Richard Nixon gave to British TV host Frost in 1977 in which he admitted he may have broken the law in the Watergate scandal.
But Frost was not involved in the new project, which is based on the hit play by Peter Morgan, and fears the movie is telling an altered version of the real story to keep cinema audiences happy
He says, "I voluntarily gave up my rights to editorial control of it. I'm not complaining but it does mean that 10 to 15 per cent of the film is fiction.
"I wasn't just a talkshow host before (Richard Nixon). I'd done British prime ministers - Harold Wilson, Ted Heath - all the U.S. presidential candidates, Robert Kennedy, Ronald Reagan. I think Peter (Morgan) did it this way to make me out to be the underdog - more a showman than a journalist."
Nixon was forced to resign his presidency in 1974 following a series of scandals which rocked the White House and nearly ended in his impeachment.