Frank Rich
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Frank Hart Rich Jr. (born June 2, 1949) is an American essayist and liberal progressive op-ed columnist, who held various positions within The New York Times from 1980 to 2011.
He has also produced television series and documentaries for HBO. Rich is currently writer-at-large for New York magazine, where he writes essays on politics and culture and engages in regular dialogues on news of the week for the "Daily Intelligencer".
He served as executive producer of the long-running HBO comedy series Veep, having joined the show at its outset in 2011, and of the HBO drama series Succession.
Early life
Born on June 2, 1949, Rich grew up in Washington, D.C. His mother, Helene Fisher (née Aaronson), a schoolteacher and artist, was from a Russian Jewish family that originally settled in Brooklyn, New York, but moved to Washington after the stock market crash of 1929. His father, Frank Hart Rich, a businessman, was from a German Jewish family long-settled in Washington. He attended public schools and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1967.
Rich attended Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At Harvard, he became the editorial chairman of The Harvard Crimson, the university's daily student newspaper. Rich was an honorary Harvard College scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and received a Henry Russell Shaw Traveling Fellowship. He graduated magna cum laude in 1971 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in American history and literature.
Personal life
Rich lives in Manhattan with his wife, Alex Witchel, an author and journalist; they married in 1991. He has two sons from his previous marriage to Gail Winston, Simon Rich, a novelist and short story writer who created the television series Man Seeking Woman and was a writer for Saturday Night Live, and Nathaniel Rich, who is a novelist, journalist, and essayist.
Career
Rich was a film and television critic for Time, a film critic for The New York Post, and senior editor of New Times Magazine before joining The New York Times in 1980. He was a founding editor of the Richmond (Va.) Mercury in the 1970s.
Rich served as the chief theater critic of The New York Times from 1980 to 1993, earning the nickname "Butcher of Broadway" for his apparent authority over Broadway shows. During its pre-Broadway tryout run in Boston, Stephen Sondheim's essay about the Broadway musical Follies (1971), directed by Stephen Sondheim, attracted attention from theatergoers. Rich was "the first one to predict the show's legendary fame" in his study of the craft. The essay "fascinated" Harold Prince, the musical's co-director, and "fully intrigued" Sondheim, who invited the undergraduate to lunch to discuss his concerns about the performance.
Rich reflected on the scandals he faced during his tenure as a drama critic, as well as on the tragedies that decimated the New York theater during the AIDS epidemic. In a book called Hot Seat: Theater Criticism by Rich, 1980–1993 (1998). Boris Aronson's Theater Art, alongside Lisa Aronson, was published in 1987.
In the Tick, Tick... Boom! Rich's presence on Broadway shows is discussed. In the 2021 film version, number "Play Game" is included: "Write for the movies, write for television."So what if it's crap?
At least you won't write for free. For a first draft, make thousands of dollars. Your life will not be determined by whether Frank Rich laughed or not.Rich was a op-ed columnist for The New York Times from 1994 to 2011; he published regularly on the links between mass media and American politics. His columns, which are now published in New York Magazine, make regular references to a variety of popular culture, including television, films, theater, and literature. Rich has written for several other journals, including The New York Review of Books and The New Republic, in addition to his long-time publishing for the Times and New York.
Following Rich's critique of Fox in 2004 as having a political leaning, the commentator Bill O'Reilly, host of the Fox News Channel talk show The O'Reilly Factor, attacked Rich.
Rich also attracted backlash by dismissing Mel Gibson's documentary "The Passion of the Christ (2004) as "nothing so much as a porn film," replete with slo-mo climaxes and pounding music for the money shots."
Rich expanded on his use in his column of truthiness to explore a variety of cultural and political topics in January 2006. His book, The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina (2006), attacked the American media for being in favour of George W. Bush's administration's propaganda after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the Iraq war's support.
Rich's column in July 2009 delved into what Rich believes to be President Barack Obama's detractors' bigoted nature. Rich opined that the Tea Party movement, which began in 2009, was "kowtowing to secessionists" at one of their rallies. The death threat and a brick sticking out of a congressman's window, he said, was a "small-scale imitator of "Kristallnacht" (or "night of cracked glass) in Nazi Germany and Austria in November 1938. Rich has continued to explore the American right, including the recent revival of the party's candidacy and presidency of Donald Trump.