Monday, December 10, 2007

Just another week in the Ocean State:

-- My friend nun-turned-attorney general-turned-talk-show-host and analyst Arlene Violet is making a musical based on her life.

-- A poker enthusiast, for reasons that are not entirely clear, says he bought the rights to Ralph Mollis's 2006 campaign Web site.

-- Uber-capitalist and conservative strategist Grover Norquist will make the scene Wednesday at an Olneyville restaurant partially inspired by the Cuban Revolution. The Rhode Island Young Democrats will be there a day later.

-- The Phoenix's own Rudy Cheeks, clad in imposing fake sideburns and 19th-century garb, impersonated Martin Van Buren at the Providence Athenaeum last Wednesday. The highlight came when Ted Widmer, rocker-turned-Clinton speechwriter-turned brainy academic and biographer, played guitar while Cheeks sang Van Buren-inspired verse to the tune of Michael Jackson's "Beat It":

Who with a Sophist's subtle art,

Could act the politician's part,

And either party did thwart?

Van Buren, Van Buren.

 

When Madison for war declar'd,

And foreign tyrants bravely dar'd

Against him who was loudest heard?

Van Buren, Van Buren.

12/10/2007 4:06:29 PM by Not For Nothing | Comments [0] |  
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