Names and faces

When Robert Redford first called Bob Woodward to talk about a movie that eventually became All the President’s Men, the reporter for The Washington Post didn’t call back. Redford made the call early in Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s reporting on the cover-up that later toppled President Richard Nixon. Redford, who portrayed Woodward in the movie, said the writer later told him he didn’t believe it was the actor on the phone. “I don’t know if it was that,” Woodward later said. “I think we were busy and wondering why he might be calling.” The reporting duo certainly was busy, and a Discovery network documentary, All the President’s Men Revisited which airs today at 7 p.m. CDT, shows why. Ultimately the focus is far more on the Watergate case than the film about it. “I didn’t want to make it too much about the movie,” Redford said. “That would be self-serving. The intention was to look back at that timeand stay in that time, leaving any comparison with where journalism was or Congress was in that day compared to today to the audience to decide. ... It is so far removed that maybe the younger generation may not know that this is a piece of recent American history that may inform them,” he said.

A musical based on Bret Easton Ellis’ novel American Psycho will first try to slay an audience in London. The Headlong theater company said Friday that it will stage the world premiere, which features songs by Tony Award-winner Duncan Sheik, at the Almeida Theatre this winter. Sheik is best known for his 1996 debut single “Barely Breathing” and is the songwriter of “Spring Awakening.” The 1991 novel chronicles a homicidal New York yuppie who is obsessed with high-end clothes and beauty products as he slashes his way through Manhattan.