Kathleen Turner Berkeley Rep Red Hot Patriot
The playwrights need a mention for this one, especially: sisters, Margaret and Allison Engel, both with careers in journalism. Allison is a media rep at USC her alma mater and Margaret runs the prestigious Alicia Patterson Foundation in Washington, DC. Margaret thinks Molly Ivins, a Smith College graduate, who got her Masters in journalism at Columbia University --became an Ameican icon, and Allison, sees her as our " Mark Twain " who could balance the "corn pone" with the "high tone". . She said that when you laugh, people open up their ears and listen. She was very honest and spoke truth, but in a humorous way. Margaret adds, " Bill Moyers really said it best - "she made the mighty humble" and the "wicked ashamed." Of her own career in journalism(which I considered, but was told it was not a safe job for a woman< --even after getting a journalism fellowship my freshman year to go to the University of Wis...