The newspaper political columnist, who was 62 when breast cancer took her life in 2007, was insightful, smart, unabashedly liberal, and very funny.
Kathleen Allen Special to the Arizona Daily Star Pity the poor souls too young to remember Molly Ivins.
The play opens as Ivins is attempting to write a column about her dying father, a conservative man with whom she has had a combative relationship. From there, she reminisces about her career, which included stints at the New York Times as well as a variety of Texas papers, a quick turn as a commentator on “60 Minutes,” and finally as a freelance syndicated columnist.
And her observation of President Ronald Reagan:"Recall, if you will, the immortal remark he made to the Lebanese foreign minister after that gentleman had finished a half-hour lecture on the tangled politics of his country. Said the Gipper: 'Y’know, your nose looks just like Danny Thomas.'" That said, Ivins is the subject, Betsy Kruse Craig is the actress. That is not a bad way at all to spend an evening and get acquainted — or reacquainted — to the brilliance of Ivins.
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