NEW YORK (AP) -- The director of "The Reagans" complained Monday that CBS butchered his made-for-TV movie, ultimately making it too incoherent for the network to air.
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Producers and the stars of the movie commented extensively about it for the first time in a conference call Monday.
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Neil Meron, one of the film's producers, said the filmmakers' only point of view was to humanize Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
Moonves said CBS had different standards for movies with political content than cable networks and would not air, for example, a film like Oliver Stone's "JFK."
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