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Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
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An insightful, fascinating, four-part 2006 documentary that includes clips from his award-winning plays and films, as well as interviews with actors, directors, and playwrights: In Act I, As a Citizen of the World, Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning playwright Tony Kushner discusses his play Homebody/Kabul, with brief readings from actor Linda Edmond, reflects on Bush's invasion of Iraq in 2003, Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall Be Unhappy; in Act II, Mama, I'm a Homosexual Mama, Louisiana-born Tony visits his hometown of Lake Charles, reflects on his childhood and coming out to his parents, interviews playwrights Paul Rudnick and Larry Kramer regarding Angels in America, and shows snippets of his marriage to Mark Harris; in Act III, Collective Action to Overcome Injustice, Tony discusses his writing process at his home in the Hudson River Valley and writing It's an Undoing World or Why Should It Be Easy When It Can Be Hard and Caroline, or Change; and in the epilogue, Action Can Change the Course of Things, Tony chats about the theater and Meryl Streep reads A Prayer.

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2009
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