Frank Rich
Frank Rich
Frank Hart Rich, Jr.is an American essayist, op-ed columnist and writer notable for having held various positions within The New York Times from 1980 to 2011...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEssayist
Date of Birth2 June 1949
CountryUnited States of America
new-york kids independent
I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.
grew grew-up theater
I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater.
real war silly
After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are.
new-york peculiar world
The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass along at a rate peculiar to New York, and positively bewildering to a stranger.
chocolate four soup
What are Americans still buying? Big Macs,Campbell's soup,Hershey's chocolate and Spam--the four food groups of the apocalypse.
criminals hollywood propaganda
Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals.
lefties causes
Anything But An Apologist for the Lefties and All of Their Causes.
war ignorance humanity
Our humanity has been compromised by those who use Gestapo tactics in our war. The longer we stand idly by while they do so, the more we resemble those 'good Germans' who professed ignorance of their own Gestapo.
magazines etc needs
If Obama needs to be criticized, I will criticize him. There's a tremendous amount of excitement about him. And a corollary of that is, as we're learning, from newspapers and magazines that are going into overdrive reprinting Obama editions, etc.
kings acting endurance
Yul Brynner's performance in "The King and I," . . . can no longer be regarded as a feat of acting or even endurance. After 30-odd . . . Mr Brynner is, quite simply, The King.
divine-right actors stage
The actor doesn't merely command the stage, he seems to own it by divine right.
house three defense
The principal House sponsor (of the Defense of Marriage Act), Bob Barr of Georgia has been married three times--which raises the question of why the act doesn't contain a three-strikes-and-you're-out provision.
play political truth-is
The truth is that a lot of plays aren't political at all. In American theater history, political theater has tended to crop up when there's a crisis, a national crisis.
taken media downing-street
Nation editor Katrina van den Heuvel told me that the failure to adequately cover the Downing Street Memo epitomizes the timidity, the cowardice of a media that has been manipulated, intimidated, bullied by an administration that has taken it to a high level. . lapdog news media.