Ok, summer hols are here and once you've been to the pool five straight days in a row and hit the Dairy Queen twice in one day, it's time to think figuratively about cracking open the school books and contemplating next semester.
To help the summer slip by, I've devised an ingenious summer project: Shakespeare's "Clinton."
If you've been reading carefully, you'll have noted that I'm reading Terry McAuliffe's What a Party! and it's been quite an inspiration, let me tell you. For starters, it dawned on me that I should have had a driveway repaving business at age 14, but quite aside from Mac's entrepreneurship, I realized that there really just hasn't been enough love for Bill lately.
Bill truly was a great - yet deeply flawed - president, and we should give him his due. Bill is tragic, but heroic. A leading man and his own villain. Larger than life, but the embodiment of the common man. A man of Shakespearean caliber. Bill is a title hero worthy of puffy shirts and Elizabethan collars.
Sadly, the bard is long dead, but staring down the long barrel of summer break, I'm sure we can come up with something.
So here it is: the Trixie Sanchez William Jefferson Shakespeare Playwriting Competition.
Outline for play:
-Bill is the main protagonist
- Story arc must incorporate all of the following: humble beginnings, rises to great heights, falls from grace due to human flaws, conspiracy of enemies, rescued by the Deus Ex Machina of untouchable opinion polls, plays golf, loves junk food
- Other characters as desired (but Janet Reno would be good since it might involve a Will Ferrell revival performance)
- Exit, pursued by bear
Deadline: August 19 - Bill's birthday
Prize: a catfish lunch at Doe's in Little Rock, AK. The restaurant quite righly proclaims that it was "recognized by the Catfish Institute in 1998 for a superior job preparing farm-raised catfish."
Hey, who can argue with well-prepared catfish? Get out your notebooks and start writing.
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