Emmy Spotlight: Peter Morgan’s Tony Blair Chronicles  Emmy- and
Oscar-nominated writer talks about Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, and
why he’ll never write about George W. Bush  “Movie-star politics
on the international stage” is how Peter Morgan describes the
milieu of “The Special Relationship,” his Tony-nominated HBO
movie about the close ties between British Prime Minster Tony
Blair and U.S. President Bill Clinton. The third installment in
a de facto Blair trilogy that began with the British television
film “The Deal” and continued with the Oscar-winning feature
“The Queen,” the film traces the decline in the fortunes of
Blair (played in all three films by Michael Sheen), who was
swept into office in a wave of enthusiasm but left a decade
later irreparably damaged by his support for the war in Iraq.
Morgan, a two-time Oscar nominee whose other scripts include
“Frost/Nixon” and “The Damned United,” received one of five Emmy
nominations for the film; the others went to lead actors Sheen
and Dennis Quaid (who pl