Not too long ago I challenged you to look at the Aaron Sorkin skit in which Barack Obama seeks Jed Bartlet's advice. I told you there were near-quotations from a famous 1968 film (earlier, a play) in that scene. I asked whether you could identify the play or the lines.

No one got it.

So, okay, here we go:

( The play, the film, the lines )

My friend Steve, who I've known for nearly thirty years and who has been, variously, an actor, a director, a theater manager, a candidate for municipal office, director of an educational nonprofit, and a political appointee in the Clinton Administration, sent me this article from the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/opinion/21dowd- ( Read more... )