Frank Rich

It actually got a number of good reviews and would get three Tony nominations, including Best Book, which is the non-sung dialogue of a musical, Best Actor, and Best Director.

But a big reason for its failure, it did not get a good review from the chief New York Times critic, Frank Rich at the time, who was nicknamed the Butcher of Broadway.

But Brooke, with songs like You Do Do Do It Good and There Are Days and There Are Days, how could it have failed?

Possibly because there was also a song called Bloat, B-L-O-A-T, which is a lively number about the Dodgers returning to spring training all out of shape after the winter.

News of the raid, the first footage of what had happened, reached Americans in movie houses on newsreels that they used to show in theaters before the main feature.

As Frank Rich describes in New York Magazine this week, when Americans saw those newsreels of MacArthur's army destroying the veterans' protest camp, Americans applauded the bonus army.

They cheered for the bonus army.

They booed General MacArthur.

Two American scenes separated by almost a century.

But put the old one in color, throw on some plaid shirts, and you almost could not tell them apart.

In his story this week in New York Magazine, Frank Rich tells the story of the Bonus Army and of Occupy Wall Street.

He titles it, quote, The Class War Has Begun.

And this is tr- very true in the critics' reviews at the time because a lot of them-

Frank Rich was cruel

...

some of them were unnecessarily cruel.

Continue, Mr. Goldberg.

When you had Frank Rich on your show, who generalizes all the time about conservatives and Republicans being bigots, you didn't ask him a single tough question.

You gave him a lap dance.

You practically had your tongue down his throat.

Guilty as charged.

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Was that televised? Uh, I don't wanna say anything, but, uh, Frank Rich hasn't been on the show since 2006.

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I'm a big fan of his.

Saw him on Broadway in a play called All In, which was written by Frank Rich and Alex Whitchell's son.

And he was also an SNL writer, and it was very, very clever.

He's going to have a couple of friends opening for him, too, like Nick Kroll and a couple of others.