I saw "The Manchurian Candidate" last Saturday. I saw the original version several years ago. Meryl Streep did a great job in the Angela Lansbury role. She has a great scene where she has to convince a political group that her son is a better vice presidential candidate than the one they wanted to choose. When she starts talking about how his beliefs were forged in Kuwait in the desert in the dark, I almost wanted to vote for him. Still, she didn't have the evil look that Lansbury brought to the role. Secondly, Denzel Washington can't compare with Frank Sinatra.