Ugly Genius
Slate.com
May 12, 2006
A.M. Rosenthal (1922-2006)
By Jack Shafer
Given the richness of the material, would the life of Abe Rosenthal make a better sitcom or a tragedy? Think of casting Tim Allen to play his apish fits of newsroom fury for laughs in Oh, That's Just Abe! Or of hiring George Clooney to trace Rosenthal's heroic rise from sickly immigrant son of a Bronx house-painter to architect of the modern New York Times, and onward to his unhappy decline.
Justice demands both.
More: http://www.slate.com/id/2141630/?nav=tap3
May 12, 2006
A.M. Rosenthal (1922-2006)
By Jack Shafer
Given the richness of the material, would the life of Abe Rosenthal make a better sitcom or a tragedy? Think of casting Tim Allen to play his apish fits of newsroom fury for laughs in Oh, That's Just Abe! Or of hiring George Clooney to trace Rosenthal's heroic rise from sickly immigrant son of a Bronx house-painter to architect of the modern New York Times, and onward to his unhappy decline.
Justice demands both.
More: http://www.slate.com/id/2141630/?nav=tap3
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