Dramatic Revisions and Socialist Visions: Interview with Tony Kushner
Editor‘s note: Tony Kushner, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and a gay activist, has written a number of plays, including Angels in America, Part 1: The Millennium, Angels in America, Part 2: Perestroika, Slavs!: Thinking about the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness and Homebody/Kabul. In addition, Kushner has received grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the NEA, the Whiting Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He also received a Lila Wallace/Reader‘s Digest Fellowship and a medal for Cultural Achievement from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. Angels in America is being made into a HBO film directed by Mike Nichols. Kushner‘s new play, Caroline or Change, will open on Broadway in September. Kushner was interviewed by Joe Sims.
Spiderman: Proletarian Hero?
While Fahrenheit 9/11 was the box office hit during its first week out, this summer’s blockbuster smash so far is Spiderman 2. Reviewers laud it, audiences line up to see it, everyone’s singing its praises. ' You’ve got to see this movie' one friend told me, 'it’s so cool! I left with a smile.' Another said, ' I really liked Spiderman; he’s so adorable. He tries so hard, but he just can’t get it right.'
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War Ain't No Sunshine
In Ray Bradbury’s 1953 story, Fahrenheit 451, the lead character, Guy Montag, a fireman, questions his job - which is burning down houses found to have books - after observing some people’s willingness to go down in flames rather than live without their books.
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