Review: 'The World According to Dick Cheney' is place with no regret
My father always told me to beware a man with no regrets. Even a life lived wisely with the best intentions, he said, is inevitably pocked with mistakes and anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.
Dick Cheney is a man with no regrets.
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Rumsfeld, who is also interviewed, became Cheney's mentor, and Cutler uses their friendship to move the Cheney story quickly through the Nixon and Ford administrations. (Cheney and Rumsfeld advised President Ford against explaining his decision to pardon Nixon before Congress; Ford did so anyway.)
Their relationship, portrayed as a united two-man team of advisors constantly present just out of frame, appears to define Cheney's definition of power — the throne is most effective as a bit of furniture on which to lean.
The facts of Cheney's rise to vice presidential power are fairly well known, but Cutler assembles them here with propulsive brevity. Some key players, including former President George W. Bush and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, are conspicuously absent as interview subjects. But Cheney's former legal counsel and chief of staff David Addington is among a host of other pundits and players who provide insider information as well as commentary and context.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-world-according-to-dick-cheney-review-showtime20130315,0,4982762.story
Where: Showtime
When: 9 p.m. Friday
Rating: TV-MA-LV (may be unsuitable for children under the age of 17 with advisories for coarse language and violence)
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