WP/AP: Robert Redford Reflects on Watergate Film

[PhilipShore]

Washington Post/AP
Robert Redford Reflects on Watergate Film
February 15, 2006

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/15/AR2006021501965.html

NEW YORK -- "All the President's Men," the classic 1976 film about Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's unraveling of Watergate, opens with hammering typewriter keystrokes that sound like gunshots.

Thirty years later, those shots _ forged by relentless digging by two unlikely Washington Post reporters _ still reverberate.

More important than the unmasking of Deep Throat, Redford says, are the similarities of Nixon's cover-up to the secretive nature of the current Bush administration.

Watergate, he says, "is happening everyday. It's pretty transparent; it's not something you have to reach for or exaggerate. You can go right down the list ... of things like Watergate happening almost on a regular basis with this particular administration."