Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Novello
The Stefan Golaszewski Plays
Bush
Revolutionary republics, like the USA and Soviet Russia, never really get rid of royalty. They just appoint surrogates. America’s yearning for icons has accorded the actor James Earl Jones a rank somewhere between Richard the Lionheart and John the Baptist.

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