Years later, however, Spielberg developed a working relationship with Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Angels in America, among other acclaimed works the two have worked together four times since 2005’s Munich. At one time, Liam Neeson, the star of Spielberg’s Schindler’s List (1993), was set to play the 16th president of the United States, but that iteration of the project fell apart due to the director’s dissatisfaction with the script. He’d obtained the film rights to Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, a portion of which is the basis for the movie, three years before the book was even published. The film had long been a passion project for the director. This is of course our loss, but perhaps fitting since five years previously Day-Lewis had already played the role of a lifetime, the kind of part that most actors would be well-advised to avoid entirely: that of Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg’s 2012 masterpiece Lincoln. This was the ninth presentation in the C-SPAN series “ First Ladies: Influence and Image.Daniel Day-Lewis, arguably the greatest actor of our time, announced that he was retiring from acting in 2017 following the release of Phantom Thread, the excellent Paul Thomas Anderson film in which he starred. the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and the Lincoln Home in Springfield, Illinois and the Mary Todd Lincoln House in Lexington, Kentucky. A video clip was shown of the Lincoln Bedroom from the documentary The White House: Inside America’s Most Famous Home and others spoke in video from President Lincoln’s Cottage at the Soldiers' Home in Washington, D.C. They discussed the complexity of her legacy, including her political role, mental health, her relationships in Washington and with the press, and stories of her lavish spending and as an over-indulgent mother. Topics included her political upbringing and position against slavery, her role as wife and mother, her time as first lady, and life after the White House. Richard Norton Smith and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn talked about the life and influence of first lady Mary Lincoln and responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. Richard Norton Smith and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn talked about the life and influence of first lady Mary Lincoln and responded to telephone calls and electronic… This was the ninth presentation in the C-SPAN series “First Ladies: Influence and Image.” T21:00:37-04:00 Richard Norton Smith and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn talked about the life and influence of first lady Mary Lincoln and responded to telephone calls and electronic communications.
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