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...reform policies, like restructuring the tax system and overhauling education, may have been Louisiana's castor oil, but voters refused to swallow it. That leaves them with a choice between Duke, who is currently a state representative, and Edwards, a high-stakes gambler with Gucci tastes, a greased-lightning wit and a reputation for skirt chasing. Bewailing the dilemma facing Louisiana voters the day after the Oct. 19 primary -- in which Edwards got 34% of the vote, Duke 32% and Roemer 27% -- the New Orleans Times- Picayune editorialized, "Of all the excesses that have made our state notorious, yesterday...
...saying that we approach the wit of Dickens and Twain, although we do. But if either of these men were living in 20th-century Harvard, their comic talents would be squashed by the OFA, a group that purports to harness creativity but actually stifles it at its source...
...then I noticed something on TV for the first time: amid the reporters covering the event were two whom I recognized as members of the foreign press corps, both known for their jaundiced eye and acid wit. My heart sank. It suddenly occurred to me that having spent days watching our politicians make prime-time fools of themselves, we Americans were soon going to have to listen to Europeans lecture us on how immature and naive we are. We heard it during Watergate, and we'd hear it again now: Grow up, America! Start behaving like a superpower instead...
Monster in a Box is truly a theatrical achievement. Gray mesmerizes the audience with his story, intelligence and wit. Gray tells us of how he asked one Hollywood producer why he wanted to talk to him. The producer replied that he had seen Gray's monologue movie, "Swimming to Cambodia," and said, "I never thought I could listen to one person talk for two hours. Least of all another man." But Gray pulled it off for that producer, and after listening to Gray for two hours in Monster in a Box, one can only agree with that producer's opinion...
Gray mesmerizez the audience with his story his wit...