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protection, give me a break, gladys. there isn t a woman in texas could find a gun in her purse. joining me now is the daughter of the late ann richards and president of planned parenthood cecille richards and benjamin cline, the director of ann on broadway. cecille, let me start with you, do you just have flashbacks watch miss taylor play your mom? it s extraordinary. she does a fabulous job. mixes the humor and sort of what texas politics was like. i have to say, chuck, it was sort of having two extra hours with my mom back and i think the audience the audience response has been phenomenal. that s what s amazing. benjamin, what motivated you to do this, number one? and then were you stunned when you found out you were going to get it on broadway? yeah. it s been an unbelievable ride working on this show. hollen taylor has been the driving force behind this the
candidate to have any success. right. now, it s been pretty bleak and obviously, i think tougher to imagine right now what s happened to leadership of the state of texas, but i think it s coming back. you see that. there s such rising stars now obviously joaquin and julio castro, and unfortunately she ran into the headwinds as you know, chuck, of the 1994 elections. otherwise i think she could have kept going a long way. i think she holds the record for having the highest job approv approval rating of anybody that loses re-election. i think she was up over it s an amazing statistic there. benjamin, one last thing, will republicans enjoy this? could they enjoy this play? without a doubt. i mean, that was the thing about ann richards is she made everybody laugh. she made everybody think and that s what s happening every night. we ve actually had several republicans at the show whisper to us i m a republican and i love this show. which is fantastic. well, cecille richards,
humor and was disarming. and i think even phones who may not have agreed with her on everything politically felt like she wasn t scripted and wasn t trying to hold things back. the other thing, you know, it s funny, chuck, i saw this show the other night and one of the lines i loved, she said, look, life isn t fair, but government should be. and i think she really did represent that, what is unfortunately sort of a perhaps a bygone era where people believe that government was actually a solution to people s problems. so, it s a it s just a wonderful, refreshing look at why government can be a force for good. that s what she was about. you know, benjamin, i know that i understand that clintons, mr. and mrs. clinton, have seen this show, gaby giffords was there the other night. it s gotten certainly plenty of attention. how did you prepare miss taylor to play ann richards? what was among some of her prep work? well, she did 3 1/2 years of research talking to everybody she could pos