Tony Kushner “bravely” takes on Laura Bush in – shock, horror – Cambridge, Massachusetts. What a hero of pushing the envelope! What daring! What artistic courage! Here’s how Alex Beam puts it:
Welcome to Kushnerworld – Pulitzer Prize-winning “Angels in America” Kushnerworld – where heterosexuals are repressed homosexuals trapped in loveless relationships, gays are generally noble and capable of spiritual enlightenment, religion is soul-suffocating bunkum, and Republicans occupy a moral plane similar to that of the Nazis. “You’re nice. I can’t believe you voted for Reagan,” Louis tells Joe, the repressed Mormon gay man in “Angels.”
The men and women who glean their news from NPR and the Guardian newspaper are always startled to learn that 48 million Americans voted for Reagan. Many of them must be the same yahoos and rubes who – gosh – voted for George Bush in 2000.
You can hear more Pulitzers coming down the pike for this one, can’t you?
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