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...John Yoo, I can see them now, the good ole days when activists were really committed, when things really got done. When protest got 4 people murdered by the National Guard at Kent State. When during the takeover of University Hall in 1969, "(i)n the reception room of Dean Glimp's office, a girl stood with blood trickling down from a cut in the center of her forehead. A state trooper stepped up...and steadied her chin with his thumb. The tenderness of this grasp was deceiving. With his free hand, he raised his long club high over...
...lead the charge. But Sarr Nunn balked at the opportunity, and so did former Virginia Governor Charles Robb. That left Albert Gore '69, Harvard overseer, prep-school graduate to carry the mantle. But the Eastern-educated senator has had his troubles convincing voters that he's a good ole' boy who was brought up on a pig farm in Tennessee...
Remember the 1980s? They had movie stars then. Burt Reynolds was the hot-shot hero with a good ole boy's heart. Richard Pryor was the clown who mined laughter from his own black rage. Molly Ringwald was the teen queen who knew that growing pains could hurt like an all-over, seven-year toothache...
Thus, if literature were important to politics what would be the fate of the good ole' American values of freedom and democracy? American capitalism has provided a great many people with both money and liberty, so who's a poet to argue...
Hauptman's play tells the story of Good 'Ole Boys gone bad. As American drama, Gillette is no masterpiece--which certainly won't prevent it from winning ten Tonys--but at the ART, it is a good 'ole play done well...