Frost/Nixon (2008)

Oliver Platt: Bob Zelnick

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• Bob Zelnick : [Impersonating Nixon, discussing Jack Kennedy]  That man, he screwed anything that moved, fixed elections, and took us into Vietnam. And the American people, they loved him for it! Whereas I, Richard Milhous Nixon, worked around the clock in their service, and they hated me! Look. Look. Now I'm sweating. Damn it! Damn it! And Kennedy's so goddamn handsome and blue-eyed! Had women all over him! He screwed anything that moved, and everything. Had a go at Checkers once. The poor little bitch was never the same!

• Bob Zelnick : [Zelnick and Reston are preparing to meet Nixon]  Gonna shake his hand?

  James Reston, Jr. : Am I gonna shake - are you kidding me? After everything that prick's done to this country? I'm not gonna shake his hand!

  David Frost : Ah, gentlemen! May I present Bob Zelnick, my executive editor.

  Richard Nixon : How d'you do?

  Bob Zelnick : Pleasure, Mr. President.

  David Frost : And Jim Reston, one of my researchers.

  Richard Nixon : Ah. Pleasure to meet you, Mr. Reston.

  [Offers Reston his hand] 

  James Reston, Jr. : [after a pause, he shakily extends his own hand]  Mr. President...

  Jack Brennan : Excuse me, sir, got a room for you right here.

  Bob Zelnick : [after Nixon leaves]  Wow. That was devastating. Withering. I mean, I don't think he's ever going to get over that.

  James Reston, Jr. : Fuck off.

• [reading from a newspaper] 

  Caroline Cushing : "Frost has hired three crack investigators..."

  James Reston, Jr. : Can I be Crack #1?

  Bob Zelnick : Can I be Deep Crack?

• Bob Zelnick : What about wiretapping?

  John Birt : How many people has he wiretapped?

  James Reston, Jr. : This guy wiretapped 17 people.

  John Birt : 17?

  Bob Zelnick : Including his own brother. But you know what? We can't ask him about his brother, 'cause frankly, if Donald Nixon was my brother, I'd wiretap him too.