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Rep. Schiff tweets: “When the dark chapter of the Trump presidency is written in the history books, the harshest criticism will be reserved for the GOP leadership in Congress, which put party over country and refused to defend our institutions … Continue reading →

Senator McConnell is really dirty. His only loyalty is to his campaign contributors and to maintaing his own power. His refusal to bring up for a vote a bill to protect Mueller tells us, once again, all we need to … Continue reading →

Directing The Blue Bird in then-Leningrad in 1974-75, George Cukor told Evgeni Shcherbakov he’d like to take him back to Los Angeles and put him in the movies, and/or something. Too bad Perestroika hadn’t yet happened and Genya couldn’t at … Continue reading →

Beloved Reader: surely you’ve noticed that I placed “Dance Little Lady” in quotes, but not This Year of Grace. As you know, I rarely use quotations around titles; I mean, how many early AM minutes did I spend putting those … Continue reading →

Because in 1986 I purchased Charles Castle’s biography of set designer Oliver Messel, which has photos of the masks that Messel created for “Dance Little Lady,” when it was first heard as part of theLondon revue This Year of Grace. … Continue reading →

With a perfectly straight face, she insists that the Syrian refugees whom Trump has so savagely defamed and rejected really don’t want to seek refuge on our shores. Jon Swaine has a thing or to to say to that in … Continue reading →

Apparently, he sounded out his legal team about how groovy would the tail-wagging be if he bombed Syria. So the Wall Street Journal reports [behind firewall].

Pardon.  . . Bomb. . . Invade. . . Torture. . .

The vicious, vitriolic weasel throws a hissy fit at the House, stamps his little foot and says You Can’t Make Me answer a single question–because I couldn’t give a fuck about transparency or American democracy. In so many words. Na-na-NA-NA-na! … Continue reading →

He is now actively participating in Trump’s obstruction of justice, running to the warm, moist echo chamber of Fox “News” to lob an utterly unfounded and nonsensical villification of Mueller. Like so many around Trump, Dershowitz now concludes his career … Continue reading →