Four links below to the WaPo articles regarding the real WH butler Eugene Allen... (Reply #6)

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Sat Aug 17, 2013, 07:04 PM

Tx4obama (36,974 posts)

6. Four links below to the WaPo articles regarding the real WH butler Eugene Allen...

... that the film was based on.

A Butler Well Served by This Election - 2008
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/06/AR2008110603948.html

White House Butler Eugene Allen Witnesses Swearing-In (of Barack Obama) - 2009
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/20/AR2009012004301.html

Eugene Allen, White House butler for 8 presidents, dies at 90 - 2010
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/01/AR2010040103444.html

White House butler Eugene Allen's humility recalled at funeral - 2010
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2010/04/01/ST2010040103462.html

I hope everyone takes the time to read them

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34 replies	Author	Time	Post
Who has seen The Butler? Just returned from a matinee [View all]	mnhtnbb	Aug 2013	OP
Next week, we did Kick Ass (mindless flick)	nadinbrzezinski	Aug 2013	#1
I might have to see it again.	mnhtnbb	Aug 2013	#3
I did that with lincoln	nadinbrzezinski	Aug 2013	#4
How did Alan Rickman do?	Baitball Blogger	Aug 2013	#2
He was actually pretty good. Robin Williams was ok.	mnhtnbb	Aug 2013	#5
oooh, Alan Rickman is in it? I just love him.	liberal_at_heart	Aug 2013	#20
Four links below to the WaPo articles regarding the real WH butler Eugene Allen...	Tx4obama	Aug 2013	#6
Thanks for posting the links. I look forward to reading them	mnhtnbb	Aug 2013	#8
Try them again. I fixed the links - a space got in 'em by mistake.	Tx4obama	Aug 2013	#9
Yes! Thanks!	mnhtnbb	Aug 2013	#12
It was a rainy afternoon here and the theater was quite full.	mnhtnbb	Aug 2013	#7
I saw it at the matinee today, too!	CTyankee	Aug 2013	#10
I'm looking forward to seeing The Butler	Hekate	Aug 2013	#11
I'm refusing to see it due to Oprah being in it.	Travis_0004	Aug 2013	#13
Oh, don't miss it because of an actor with whom you disagree.	mnhtnbb	Aug 2013	#15
Why?	kwassa	Aug 2013	#22
"the uproar about Jane Fonda being cast as Nancy Reagan"	BumRushDaShow	Aug 2013	#14
Jane Fonda had a great look as Nancy Reagan in the movie.	mnhtnbb	Aug 2013	#17
NANCY REAGAN approved of the casting of Jane Fonda, though--puts a crimp in their poutrage!	MADem	Aug 2013	#28
I saw it today and loved it.	avebury	Aug 2013	#16
I'm a huge fan of Lee Daniels so I can't wait to see it	Bluenorthwest	Aug 2013	#18
I plan to see it. Aunt told me about it	Triana	Aug 2013	#19
The film trashed Reagan	tavernier	Aug 2013	#21
I just read The Hollywood Reporter (gave it excellent reviews) and the cons are furious. I love it..	monmouth3	Aug 2013	#23
Lee Daniels confirms in an interview in the NY Times magazine today	mnhtnbb	Aug 2013	#24
Overwrought and hits you over the head with a hammer.	zappaman	Aug 2013	#25
I suspect it will be longer than 4 months to cable...#1 at box office this weekend.	mnhtnbb	Aug 2013	#26
My family went the other day--raved for two days straight! nt	MADem	Aug 2013	#27
I saw it yesterday	HeiressofBickworth	Aug 2013	#29
jane fonda comes full circle	BOG PERSON	Aug 2013	#30
Great comment. It is not well known that Ronnie was snitching on 'commie'	mnhtnbb	Aug 2013	#31
From one of the links:	Gormy Cuss	Aug 2013	#32
Went to see the Butler with 9 friends but for me personally	FloridaBlues	Aug 2013	#33
Robin Williams as Ike? I'd have to see it for that, if nothing else	IDemo	Aug 2013	#34

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