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🗓️ 19 May 2025
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How Hollywood tried to capitalize on Iran-Contra -- and why the story didn’t take.
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0:52.8 | The day Oliver North was fired from his job at the White House, Ronald Reagan called him on the phone and told him he was a national hero. |
1:04.0 | It was a brief conversation, but Reagan found time for some gallows humor, telling North he thought Iran-Contra would make a great movie someday. |
1:13.7 | Reagan, a former Hollywood actor with nearly 30 years of experience in the movie business, |
1:18.3 | probably didn't realize how quickly someday would come. |
1:22.2 | Hollywood's already drawing up its wish list for a TV miniseries. |
1:26.0 | It's got all the elements of it. It's a very dramatic story. |
1:28.5 | It's complex, but it's a dramatic story. |
1:30.7 | Ali North was the rare star witness in a political scandal who had actual star quality. |
1:36.3 | Norman Lear, the creator of All in the Family at Good Times, marveled at his stage presence. |
1:41.5 | He gets tears in his eyes, Lear said. |
1:43.9 | TV eats up moist-eyed people. |
1:46.3 | There were times when this career military man demonstrated a brilliant gift for using the media. |
1:51.0 | Through the day across the country, Americans watched as network soap operas were replaced |
1:55.5 | by Oliver North. |
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