Frank Rich Quotes (23 Quotes)

When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.

One of the good things about television is that there's such alternatives now to what's often homogenized network entertainment.

This play is a searing inside account of what white racism does to its victims, ... and it floats on the same authentic artistry as the blues music it celebrates.

I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater.

The playwright starts off angry, soon becomes furious and then skyrockets into sheer rage.

For a man who purports to have learned of media ethics only this month, Mr. Williams has spent an undue amount of time appearing as a media ethicist on both CNN and the cable news networks of NBC.

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.

You know the cliche that politics is Hollywood for ugly people, ... Political conventions are sort of showmanship for people whose idea of great entertainment is the Gridiron. If you think the Gridiron is equal to Radio City Music Hall in its heyday, then you'll probably find the conventions somewhat entertaining.

capital crime was to write a column on this page last month reporting that Mr. Gibson was promoting his upcoming film about the crucifixion, 'The Passion,' by baiting Jews. As indeed he has.

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

The press coverage will surely, with hindsight, make for hilarious reading.

Politicians now are so scripted, they all are. Doesn't matter what their political views. Everyone has a script. Everyone is quaffed to the nine's.

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.

There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake news reports on television during the Bush presidency. It was a really good tour. It seemed maybe about a week too long.

The actor doesn't merely command the stage, he seems to own it by divine right.

In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too.

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.

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.

The religio-hucksterism surrounding the Schiavo case makes DeMille's Hollywood crusades look like amateur night. This circus is the latest and most egregious in a series of cultural shocks that have followed Election Day 2004, when a fateful exit poll question on 'moral values' ignited a take-no-prisoners political grab by moral zealots.

It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.

always on tap, night and day, weekdays and weekends, to laugh, to applaud, to love.

As synthetic and padded as the transvestites' cleavage.

There's something endearingly crackpot about this play -- it speaks to us from the century's boom time, when our culture, like the author, was at once naive and inordinately ambitious.