August 2004 Longing for integrity, Harden praises Kerry Posted: 2004-08-24 Add actress Marcia Gay Harden to the long list of Hollywood celebrities who are backing John Kerry. In an interview with the Boston Herald published on Monday, Harden, who vacationed on Cape Cod last week, yearned for "honesty and integrity in our political process," praised Kerry as "extremely intelligent," said that "I like that he was in the military...and that he spoke out against what he thought was wrong," and she admired how "he seems to be a diplomat and the world needs that right now." First Lady fights back Posted: 2004-08-02 Salon.com has posted an interesting article with a full transcript of Marcia's recent appearance, reading Tony Kushner's "Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall be Unhappy", alongside some remarks by Kushner himself: The Nation published the scene before the war started, and so did the Guardian in London. Some people got angry about it, including Page Six of the New York Post, a columnist in Boston and, to my surprise, a number of readers of the Nation. Others took me up on the offer I made in the Nation and they did the play at antiwar rallies around the country. Marcia Gay Harden has played Laura Bush on several occasions; the last time, she was eight and a half months pregnant - with twins! Just like Laura! No one is more thorough than Marcia Gay when it comes to preparing for a part. The full article can be read here.