DAN SULLIVAN
09/22/1985
Los Angeles Times
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Last Sunday’s presentation of “Death of a Salesman” on CBS was an honorable attempt to bring a great American play to the millions of Americans who don’t go to the theater. What it proved was that with some plays there’s no choice but to see them in the theater. Uproot them from the stage and the power goes out of them. Read More »
Star-Tribune Newspaper of the Twin Cities Mpls.-St. Paul
The lessons of history depend on when we read them. Barry Goldwater’s crushing defeat in the 1964 presidential election (Lyndon Johnson took 44 states, Goldwater only six, all in the South) was seen at the time as proof that a hard-line conservative could never occupy the modern White House. Read More »
DAN SULLIVAN
Times Theater Critic
06/12/1989
Los Angeles Times
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I used to think that Garrison Keillor was a guy I had worked with on the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Then Keillor came to a luncheon at the L.A. Times. I clapped him on the back. “Boy, have you come a long way.” He looked around, and it wasn’t the same person at all. If that wasn’t embarrassing. Read More »
DAN SULLIVAN
12/20/1987
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It may sound strange for a theater critic to say the following, but it’s time that somebody did: Life is not theater.
People are not actors.
Truth is not the same as a nice moment.
The business of America is not show business. Read More »
Despite his brush with Oprah, Jonathan Franzen continues on course. “The Corrections” has just come out in soft cover, his first two novels, “The Twenty-Seventh City” (1988) and “Strong Motion” (1992), are still in print, and now we have a collection of non-fiction pieces to show his take on what he calls “the real world.” Read More »
