Seab Cooley), Rich states that “unprincipled gay-baiting has mushroomed into a full-fledged political movement. Though the near half-century in the interim between Consent’s appearance in the aftermath of the McCarthy witch hunts (which smoked out Communists and homosexuals with nearly equal vigor) and the here and now has seen a very small handful of Barney Franks to oppose the Trent Lotts and Rich Santorums (represented in Consent by Charles Laughton’s terrifying Sen. Brig Anderson (Don Murray) over his long ago homosexual dalliance with a fellow soldier. Leffingwell (Henry Fonda), is a Communist sympathizer but also the ongoing private blackmailing of the subcommittee chair Sen. President’s nomination for Secretary of State finds itself battered not only from public accusations that the nominee, Robert A. In the plotline, a subcommittee to confirm the secretly ailing U.S. An informative New York Times article by Frank Rich (hysterically titled “Just How Gay is the Right?”) unpacked Advise and Consent-not only the magnificent 1962 film directed by CinemaScope svengali Otto Preminger but also the original bestselling novel by Allen Drury (so popular among high school English students at one point in history that it placed some 10 slots higher on a list of “most influential books” than the Bible)-for its still-prescient angle on the sacrificial lambs of American politics namely, the homosexuals.
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