The Real Barack Obama (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
John Batchelor writes on his blog: Allen Drury’s thriller that became Otto Preminger’s droll 1962 film “Advise and Consent” turned on routine sexual blackmail in the U.S. Senate, but underneath the plot was an acute sitcom of pompous, presumptive men who carry on as if socializing was work and working was for the unelected… Role-Playing I [...]
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
Go away. Are you ever going to leave? Why is departure such a problem for you? Do you truly hate eremites? Or is it just me? Why won't you go? Oh, I see, you want something from me. Gosh, I never saw that coming. And the thing you seek from me, it wouldn't be a reading, would it? Hunh. Who'd a thunk? Well, if it gets you on the road more swiftly, I suppose I shouldn't tarry any longer, so let me tell...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 08/29/2009
Allen Drury belongs on any list of conservative fiction writers . In today's WSJ , he's on a list of the best five novels about political conspiracy : 4. Advise and Consent By Allen Drury Doubleday, 1959 A generation of political junkies got hooked on the ways of Washington because of this book, published 50 years ago. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, "Advise and Consent" revealed...
Lance Mannion (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Charles Laughton as Senator Seab Cooley and Walter Pigeon as Senate Majority Leader Robert Munson in Otto Preminger's adaptation of Allen Drury's Advise and Consent. First book by Allen Drury I read was his fourth, Capable of Honor. It was one of the first serious contemporary adult novels I read. Since I found it on my father's bookshelf where I'd also found novels by Vonnegut, Cheever, and Joseph...
CAFFEINATED POLITICS (Free subscription) | 01/29/2009
Allen Drury, the former newspaper man turned author of the famed “Advise and Consent” series, came to my mind this morning as I watched Governor Rod Blagojevich in front of the Illinois Senate. Drury had constructed a whole list of multi-dimensional characters for his books, and some where based on real life politicians. For whatever [...]
CAFFEINATED POLITICS (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
“Do your parents know you are reading this book?” That question from Mrs. Tunks, a middle school teacher of mine, was as close as book censorship ever came my way. I still recall the stair steps in my old schoolhouse where she pointed at my copy of “The Throne Of Saturn” by Allen Drury, and while [...]
CAFFEINATED POLITICS (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
I was glad to see the weighty writing of Paul Krugman adds to the clamor for real Congressional leadership over the growing economic crisis. Yesterday I wrote that leadership was missing and the Democrats need to step and do the work for the sake of the nation. In part, Krugman agrees and writes today. But if Mr. [...]
PlayBill (Free subscription) | 11/17/2007
Today In Theatre History: NOVEMBER 17By and Sam Maher, Steve Luber and Anne Bradley 17 Nov 2007 1901 Birthday of actor/director/producer/teacher/acting coach Lee Strasberg (1901-1982) in Austria-Hungary. As a founder of the Group Theatre and Artistic Director of the Actors Studio, he will serve as the godfather of the "Method" acting style, and influence actors in the second half of the 20th...
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