The Pulitzer prize-winning playwright’s All the Way,which premieres as a biopic on HBO next month, holds a mirror to Washington’s current political machine through revisiting Lyndon B Johnson’s complicated first yearDonald Trump truly represents the final convergence of politics and showbusiness. He ruled The Apprentice on television for more than a decade. His election campaign rallies feature songs by Elton John and the Rolling Stones and, and incongruously,Luciano Pavarotti’s rendition of Nessun Dorma. He flies in by helicopter to the theme music from Air Force One. Trump is the latest protagonist in an age-old affair between Hollywood and Washington. There was actor-turned-president Ronald Reagan. There was actor-turned-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and fresh host of the Celebrity Apprentice. While on television the US capital is fascinated by a glamorous, and distorting mirror of itself: The West Wing (liberal fantasy),House of Cards (the satan as president) and Scandal (preposterous melodrama).
Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com