Interview w/ "18½" writer-director Dan Mirvish on his Watergate comedy/thriller movie. Out May 27!
Channel: Criticologos
Date: 2022-05-26

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Interview w/ "18½" writer-director Dan Mirvish on his Watergate comedy/thriller movie. Out May 27!

To this day, no one knows who erased the 18½-minute gap in the Nixon Watergate tapes or why they were erased. Once the gap was discovered Nixon's presidency quickly unwound.

The film 181⁄2 is historical fiction. None of the main characters seen in the movie ever existed. That said, the 181⁄2-minute tape heard in the film are based on contemporaneous Nixon tapes and the historical record since that time. Sometimes truth is indeed stranger than fiction.