Sisters, you really had to believe | Television

Nora Ephron spent 30 years telling anyone who would listen that Mark Felt was Deep Throat, the source that allowed her ex-husband, Carl Bernstein, and Bob Woodward to uncover the Watergate. Nobody believed her, Bernstein told everyone who wanted to listen that he would not have thought of entrusting the most important secret identity in American politics to his gossipy wife, but she would liven up the dinners with the conclusions that led her to choose Felt as a suitable candidate for the filtration, and he was right.

Katharine Graham chaired the Washington Post that allowed the journalists to publish the case, the newspaper that sheltered them and protected them from political interference, but in All the President’s Men, the book, is only mentioned nine times. And in her film adaptation, only one: “It’s all lies and Katie Graham is going to get her boobs in a wringer if this gets published.” The one who threatened her in this vulgar way—I don’t know why our boobs are such a game—was John Mitchell, attorney general during Nixon’s first term.

Martha Mitchell, the wife of the rhapsodist, not the ex-director of Nora Ephron, had a similar insight. YoDona, who soon discovered that something was rotten in the Nixon administration. However, like Ephron, no one believed her. Spielberg attempted to do justice to Graham in the pentagon filesstarring the same Meryl Streep who 30 years earlier had played Nora Ephron in the cake is over, the film adaptation of the hilarious book in which Ephron recounted his relationship with Bernstein. Now Gaslit, on Starzplay, try to do it with Martha Mitchell, who is played by Julia Roberts. Who will be entertaining dinner parties with Pegasus gossip? I hope we don’t take 30 years to find out.

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