Comments on: First Lady Fights Back!

First Lady Fights Back!

matteo — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 10:11:11 -0800

"Hi. My name is Tony Kushner, I'm a playwright ...Ladies and Gentlemen and Supporters of MoveOn: the first lady of the United States, Laura Welch Bush". About a year and a half ago Kushner, the Pulitzer-prize winning author of Angels in America, published the first act of a new play, Only We Who Guard The Mystery Shall Be Unhappy (full text). In it, Laura Bush reads Dostoyevsky to a classroom full of ghosts of dead Iraqi children. Now, (in Salon, I know, I know) the first lady metacriticizes Kushner's play. (more inside)

By: matteo

matteo — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 10:16:26 -0800

[Laura Bush enters.] TK: Thank you for coming here tonight. LAURA BUSH: My pleasure, I guess. I didn't like your skit very much. TK: No, I didn't think you would. LB: It was sort of insulting, and at times I felt the writing was really muddleheaded, and of course I'm nothing like that. TK: No, well, it's a work of fiction.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 10:29:14 -0800

why are the words "edited for clarity" so fucking FUNNY when they appear on FAUX?

By: Peter H

Peter H — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 10:32:41 -0800

Nice! Haven't clicked all the links, but does anyone know if there's a photo anywhere of Mitchell dressed up as Laura? Or god, Angel in America indeed, if there's a video?

By: matteo

matteo — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 10:40:19 -0800

Peter, Mitchell in drag

By: Peter H

Peter H — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 11:03:24 -0800

matteo - I know that one! I don't mean just Mitchell in drag, but I mean specifically, Mitchell in Bush, er (excuse that pun couldn't be avoided), I mean Mitchell as Laura Bush. ps. Don't ever put a bra in the dryer.

By: blueshammer

blueshammer — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 11:16:01 -0800

The Salon story reports that Mitchell was dressed as, simply, Mitchell. Both scenes are a nice bit of dramatic imagination.

By: ewkpates

ewkpates — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 11:33:24 -0800

Why does she escalate to " irrational antipathy " so quickly? I don't have a subscription, so let me know how it turns out.

By: Peter H

Peter H — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 11:47:19 -0800

oop matteo - the postscript was a reference to a funny scene from Hedwig, no link available though. Ha, out of context it makes me sound both bitchy and sorta like a loon. But then again maybe I ...

By: Ogre Lawless

Ogre Lawless — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 11:54:09 -0800

Now, (in Salon, I know, I know) the first lady metacriticizes Kushner's play. "Now Kushner writes the first lady's criticism of the play." I know "meta" is all du jour, but it left me thinking that the first lady actually -did- criticize...

By: pxe2000

pxe2000 — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 12:18:46 -0800

fuck you, peter h! I'M GOING TO GUAM!

By: Peter H

Peter H — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 12:43:22 -0800

pxe2000 - For "Rent"? Good god! Why? Calm down, let me just hold on to that passport of yours for a little while, ;) okay I'll say it: I for one knew there would be no known photograph of Mitchell in Bush! (rimshot)