![]() ![]() Next time you sing the lines, ” …and the land of the free,” remember that those lines were penned by Francis Scott Keyes, a wealthy slave owner. When, like the writer of The Star Spangled Banner, they were hypocrites. To make use of my time, I decided to have Rome Neal, who has directed eight of my plays at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, round up some of the actors who had appeared in my 2017 play, ”Life Among The Aryans,” to read from a script I was working on entitled “The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda.” Like The Star Spangled Banner, “Hamilton, The Revolution” is some noisy, brassy state art, which pushes the creation myth that Alexander Hamilton and others were abolitionists. I had bought plane tickets and booked a hotel. ![]() Then came the government shut down, and the postponement of the showing. ![]() Art Forum magazine was among the film publications that have called it one of the best movies of 2018. Since Kino Lorber restored the film, it has been shown at museums and theaters throughout the country. My real purpose for traveling to the East in January was to attend the showing of a two hour and forty-five-minute film that Steve Cannon, Walter Cotton and I produced in 1980, “81,” that was scheduled to be shown Washington’s National Gallery. ![]()
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