Hyde Park on Hudson: FDR, His Mistresses and the King

If a movie about stammering King George VI could score a $400-million triumph at the worldwide box office and a near-sweep of the 2011 Academy Awards, then a film about George VI’s friendship with Franklin Delano Roosevelt is a lock for a billion dollars and maybe a Nobel. Another augury: impersonating a real person with a disability is the short cut to an Oscar — not just Colin Firth in The King’s Speech but Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot, Geoffrey Rush in Shine and Jamie Foxx in Ray. I...

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