Think Fast: Kushner, Titanic, and Chicago Coke

Posted on June 1, 2009 by Scotty Zacher

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Celebrated playwright Tony Kushner has demanded requested that no critics be allowed to review his newest play “The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures”.  From TwinCities.com:

Playwright Tony Kushner has asked that no national reviewers critique the Minneapolis production of his world-premiere play at the Guthrie Theater — a sign he feels his newest work is not ready for the national spotlight and a potential blemish on the theater’s celebration of the Pulitzer Prize-winner. More here.

Pictures courtesy of MPR and Coucou Circus. Tony Kushner’s epic Tony and Emmy-winning “Angels In America” portrayed on right picture.

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Millvina Dean, final survivor of the Titanic
A slice of history was lost yesterday as the final survivor from the unsinkable ill-fated Titanic died at age 97. From the Daily Herald:

Millvina Dean, who as a baby was wrapped in a sack and lowered into a lifeboat in the frigid North Atlantic, has died, having been the last survivor of 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic.

More here. (picture supplied by AP)

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s-COCAINE-large Chicago, city of druggies:

People arrested in Chicago are more likely than prisoners in other major cities to test positive for drugs, according to a new report from the White House.
 

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