First Lady Fights Back!
August 4, 2004 10:11 AM Subscribe
"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)
posted by matteo at 10:16 AM on August 4, 2004
why are the words "edited for clarity" so fucking FUNNY when they appear on FAUX?
posted by quonsar at 10:29 AM on August 4, 2004
posted by quonsar at 10:29 AM on August 4, 2004
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?
posted by Peter H at 10:32 AM on August 4, 2004
Or god, Angel in America indeed, if there's a video?
posted by Peter H at 10:32 AM on August 4, 2004
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.
posted by Peter H at 11:03 AM on August 4, 2004
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.
posted by Peter H at 11:03 AM on August 4, 2004
The Salon story reports that Mitchell was dressed as, simply, Mitchell.
Both scenes are a nice bit of dramatic imagination.
posted by blueshammer at 11:16 AM on August 4, 2004
Both scenes are a nice bit of dramatic imagination.
posted by blueshammer at 11:16 AM on August 4, 2004
Why does she escalate to " irrational antipathy " so quickly? I don't have a subscription, so let me know how it turns out.
posted by ewkpates at 11:33 AM on August 4, 2004
posted by ewkpates at 11:33 AM on August 4, 2004
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 ...
posted by Peter H at 11:47 AM on August 4, 2004
posted by Peter H at 11:47 AM on August 4, 2004
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...
posted by Ogre Lawless at 11:54 AM on August 4, 2004
"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...
posted by Ogre Lawless at 11:54 AM on August 4, 2004
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)
posted by Peter H at 12:43 PM on August 4, 2004
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)
posted by Peter H at 12:43 PM on August 4, 2004
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