Red Hot Patriot starring Kathleen Turner
I'm so glad I made it to the world premiere of Red Hot Patriot, a great play starring Kathleen Turner as the late Texas writer, Molly Ivins. The playwrights are two sisters, Margaret and Allison Engel. Ivins, who died of breast cancer at 72 in 2007, certainly gave them plenty to work with. She was forever whipping off one liners and jokes about George W. Bush and other Republicans who earned her ire. I don't know how I got through it without crying. It really did not seem as though Turner was acting in the role of Molly Ivins. For me, she was Molly Ivins, in all her rowdiness, wit and great liberal spirit.