Rather Outspoken - Huffington Post

Rather Outspoken
Huffington Post
It's hard to believe CBS was once the network of the "Murrow Boys" who exposed the fear-mongering of Joe McCarthy and Roy Cohn -- the same network who sent a young Rather into the middle of firefights in Vietnam, and managed to make 60 Minutes the most ...

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Looking back and recording the past can help seniors move forward - AnnArbor.com

Looking back and recording the past can help seniors move forward
AnnArbor.com
Joseph McCarthy chats with his attorney Roy Cohn during Senate Subcommittee hearings on the McCarthy-Army dispute. Photo courtesy of the Library of CongressEditor's note: Robert Faber writes occasional columns for AnnArbor.com about aging, politics .

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Are You Now or Have You Ever Been... at the Guthrie - Minneapolis City Pages

Are You Now or Have You Ever Been... at the Guthrie
Minneapolis City Pages
The shift comes in the final third, when the rest of the cast join in: Hughes's attorney (played by the playwright himself) and four members of the committee, led by a mostly silent McCarthy and his favorite bulldog, Roy Cohn. Here, the rich confusion ...
The interrogation of a poet Minneapolis Star Tribune

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Angels and Demons - Wall Street Journal (blog)


Wall Street Journal (blog)
Angels and Demons
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Everything else is left to the imagination—and to Mr. Newell's cast, led by Larry Yando as Roy Cohn. By turns horrifically gleeful and unexpectedly vulnerable, Mr. Yando's Cohn steers clear of caricature, thus mitigating Mr. Kushner's tendency to ...
Court's Angels in America Soars Despite Clipped Wings Huffington Post

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'Republic' critic Richard Nilsen says farewell to arts - Arizona Republic


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'Republic' critic Richard Nilsen says farewell to arts
Arizona Republic
I first saw it in New York in 1994, with F. Murray Abraham playing Roy Cohn. It was the single most bravura performance I've ever seen onstage. It was devastating. "I wish I was an octopus, a (bleeping) octopus. Eight loving arms and all those suckers.

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Bigoted Letter-Writer Offers Apologia - Tablet Magazine


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Bigoted Letter-Writer Offers Apologia
Tablet Magazine
My favorite touch: including both Roy Cohn and the Rosenbergs. That's chutzpah, if I may say so. I apologize for the flyer I sent you recently (“Nice Jewish Boys”) [ed.: you actually sent it along with this]. In retrospect, I feel it was too broad and ...

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Mad Men Republicans - ChicagoNow (blog)

Mad Men Republicans
ChicagoNow (blog)
For the record, Roy Cohn's ghost is at the Court Theater in Chicago. But I digress. Listening to this ludicrousness as I walked about Chicago's Loop laughing, I had to wonder. Have you ever met a Russian Commie? You should have been at our July 4th ...

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