There’s something especially satisfying when a storyteller manages to draw out all the shades of such people—their failings and strengths, the wrongs they do others and those done to them, and above all, their inner turmoil, or chilling lack thereof.
Like some strange brew blend of VEEP, Noises Off and one of the late Charles Ludlam’s outrageously vulgar (and still sorely missed) Ridiculous Theatrical Company follies, Selina Fillinger’s all-female, star-packed political satire POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive is an occasionally glorious mess of a farce, sometimes […]
The actress and TV-show creator is pals with the former White House staffer.
Steven Culp played Speaker of the House Jeff Haffley on The West Wing. He is perhaps best known for his recurring roles on Desperate Housewives and JAG. He also played Robert Kennedy in the movie Thirteen Days. Despite the surname, and his looks, he is not related to actor Robert Culp.
Like some strange brew blend of VEEP, Noises Off and one of the late Charles Ludlam’s outrageously vulgar (and still sorely missed) Ridiculous Theatrical Company follies, Selina Fillinger’s all-female, star-packed political satire POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive is an occasionally glorious mess of a farce, sometimes […]
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Mario Correa’s crisp drama à clef stages the generational rivalry between the two most prominent female lawmakers of the Democratic Party, Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
A sprawling new book set in the Obama era inquires into the value of public life.
It’s a parable made famous by David Foster Wallace’s 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College–one so resonant it eventually become a small grad-giftable book. Two young fish are swimming along when an older fish asks them, “How’s the water today?” The more junior fish are puzzled by the question. “What is water?” they ask. Although today it would probably be more like, “Literally, what even is water? Deadass.” According to Wallace, water is the stuff around us that is so obvious, overwhelming,
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Like some strange brew blend of VEEP, Noises Off and one of the late Charles Ludlam’s outrageously vulgar (and still sorely missed) Ridiculous Theatrical Company follies, Selina Fillinger’s all-female, star-packed political satire POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive is an occasionally glorious mess of a farce, sometimes […]
Josiah Edward “Jed” Bartlet, Ph.D., D.H.L. (Hon.), is an American politician who served as the President of the United States from 1999 to 2007. Prior to this, he was the Governor of New Hampshire and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He is a very successful politician, having never lost an election. His career in politics spans 36 years, from 1971 to 2007. Bartlet was born and raised in the state of New Hampshire. After attending the University of Notre Dame and the London School o
Richard Schiff stopped by the CBS comedy for a walk-and-talk with his former co-star
The series about the 1970s ERA ratification effort doesn’t need to digress from history for the sake of a good story — but it still occasionally does.
