Tony Kushner on Marriage Equality, Sendak and Lincoln

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Tony Kushner on Marriage Equality, Sendak and Lincoln

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Award-winning playwright and gay rights activist Tony Kushner speaks with “Democracy Now!” about Obama’s decision to support same-sex marriage, the life of children’s author Maurice Sendak, and his regard for Abraham Lincoln, about whom he wrote a screenplay for an upcoming film directed by Steven Spielberg. —ARK

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By EmileZ, May 12, 2012 at 4:09 am Link to this comment

Thomas Friedman is like a bacteria laden Dalkon Shield in the cervix of America.

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By ACT I, May 11, 2012 at 7:41 am Link to this comment
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I think that it is perfectly understandable why any oppressed group would be primarily focused on their own oppression to the exclusion, or at least diminution, of other concerns. Thus, I will forgive Kushner for having a higher opinion of O’Bomber than many of us have.

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By EmileZ, May 10, 2012 at 3:49 pm Link to this comment

Why do I get the feeling that this guy feels the earth move just about every time Obama opens his mouth.

The worst Kushner seems to be able to say about Obama is that he is “probably not” a genius on the level of Shakespeare and Mozart, as he believes Abraham Lincoln was, who he just happens to be writing a screenplay about for a Spielberg movie coming soon to theatre near you.

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