She is brought to tears by being reprimanded for speaking when she isn’t supposed to. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Cartwright gets her first work as a justice. He immediately starts moving in that direction. He even talks Mitchell into quitting the Senate and taking the starring role, promising him he will get very rich and popular enough to win the real White House. talk for “President of the United States.”) He decides to create a rival TV show to replace her, dreaming up a “West Wing”-style program titled “POTUS” (D.C. Her husband sues for breach of contract and divorce. So she aces the committee vote 18-0, and goes on to win by 91-7 in the full Senate. In the hearing, she agrees with the senators on the Judiciary Committee who find her unsuited, but her popularity puts pressure on them – to the point that they’re getting death threats. Her husband doesn’t want her to accept either, because of the lost income. She doesn’t want to accept the president’s offer because she doesn’t feel worthy. So what the heck! He nominates Cartwright for the Supreme Court vacancy. The president is so unpopular that he has decided not to seek a second term. She is sexy, sassy, plain talking (she even says “you betcha”), and the show makes her and her husband Buddy Bixby, the show’s creator and producer, multimillionaires. At the same time, he has just started watching a television show called “Courtroom Six,” built around Pepper Cartwright, a former California state judge.Ĭartwright and her program quickly become extremely popular. Vaderdamp decides to teach the senators a lesson, to embarrass them, especially Mitchell. (One is brought down on the grounds that he didn’t sufficiently praise the movie “ To Kill a Mockingbird” in a review for his elementary school newspaper.) He manages to get two very respected nominees defeated in a row. The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Dexter Mitchell, a three-time loser as a presidential candidate, now hopes to be appointed to the court. Here’s the story line: A Supreme Court justice who has lost his marbles is forced to retire. But I grew up on Marx Brothers movies and Thorne Smith novels and I loved it. It is more silly than sleek satire, more sophomoric than sophisticated, late-night stand-up jokes.Īs a result, some reviewers have greeted “Supreme Courtship” with faint praise. His newest work, Supreme Courtship, is both better than and not as good as his previous works. His other super satires include Boomsday and No Way to Treat a First Lady.Christopher Buckley is the nation’s best humor novelist. Art imitates life, and vice versa ask anyone who watches reality TV shows and current events, and Buckley’s the best at helping us make sense-and nonsense-of it all. When Pepper is actually confirmed to the Court, the plot goes from the sublime to the ridiculous and back, again and again. In Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley, drastic times call for drastic measures and President Vanderdamp was determined to propose a candidate that the Senate Judiciary Committee could not oppose. And why was she offered the nomination? Because of her spectacular success as the TV judge of Courtroom Six. One of the items up for discussion is the strain Pepper placed on their marriage when she agreed to be considered for a seat on the U.S. ‘Maybe I reacted perhaps not perfectly.’ Are you sure you didn’t study law?” Pepper Cartwright is the outraged sender of this statement, and Buddy Bixby is the aggrieved receiver the context is an assessment of their nuptial and business relationships. ![]() Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley (FIC BUCKLEY)
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