Posted on 09/02/2004 1:07:59 PM PDT by nikos1121
September 02, 2004, 10:27 a.m. Laura and Her Killer Bushie Playwright Tony Kushner’s Iraq Bush-family fantasy.
New York, N.Y. — "No one wanted you dead! Oh God no, I mean God no, what sort of animal would want that? No, it's a terrible sin and I'm sure we'll all have to pay for it, me and Bushie and — I call him Bushie, my husband."
The actress Holly Hunter, wearing jeans, an anti-Bush t-shirt, and speaking with a broad southern accent, was playing First Lady Laura Bush in “Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall Be Unhappy,” a "work in progress" by the playwright Tony Kushner. The reading of the unfinished play, at the New York Theatre Workshop, a 250-seat room in the East Village, was billed as part of the creative community's response to the Republican National Convention. So on Wednesday night, as Vice President Dick Cheney was preparing to address the convention, the theater was packed — organizers had to turn people away — as Hunter, playing Mrs. Bush, addressed a group of Iraqi children.
At the beginning of the play, as she is preparing to read to the children, Mrs. Bush notices they are all wearing pajamas. Why is that?, she wants to know.
"I was about to explain," says an angel, played by the Sex in the City actress Cynthia Nixon. "In Paradise, all dead children wear pajamas."
It turns out the First Lady is in fact speaking to the ghosts of Iraqi children killed by American bombs and missiles. "You are the first Iraqi children I've met and you look real sweet in your PJs," she says. "And I'm sorry you're dead, but all children love books...How did you die, darling?"
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
This is a 'work in progress'? *LOL*
It's crap! It will progress down the toilet.
Angels in pyjamas! Bollixology!
Ben's been in hiding ever since he TOTALLY misused the word "enervate."
Please give me a quote - I hadn't heard this.
Too bad Harvey Keitel didn't revert to his Winston Wolfe character from "Pulp Fiction."
It might have made "The Piano" watchable.
LOL! I love that movie. I'm disappointed in Holly Hunter. She also played the Texas Cheerleader Mom.
Sorry, I'm html illiterate, but check this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1182603/posts
That's hilarious. This is the guiy who calls the President stupid. What a tool.
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