Anyone Else Watch the HBO movie ...

He did it on Broadway and the little I have seen him do on HBO is simply mind numbing. I feel like I am watching Johnson. It was no accident someone this brilliant drove an Aztek.

Salinsky wrote:He's a little too thin for LBJ, but other than that, he nails it.

The funny thing is that I never realized how much my grandpa resembled a thin LBJ.

Bryan Cranston is the resurrection of Papa.

That's funny...my "Papaw" was LBJ's cousin. He was 6'4", didn't really resemble LBJ, but had a brother in Houston who was the spitting image, except he was not very tall. When you posted that audio of LBJ ordering pants...Papaw had that same gruffness...which I know came from hard times during the Great Depression...but we were close.

A great scene was LBJ dealing with the death of the three civil rights workers in MS. He calls the governor and threatens sending the federal marshalls and troops, and then puts words into the governors mouth that he wants the FBI, and then calls the governor and Hoover whats nothing to do with it, and Johnson tells him the CIA will do it, and Hoover insists the FBI can do it. Pure puppet master.

I thought Cranston gave one of the best performances last year in Trumbo. I don't have HBO but Laurence Luckinbill did a good job as LBJ about 30 years ago.