Frommers EasyGuide to San Antonio and Austin by Edie Jarolim

Author:Edie Jarolim
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: FrommerMedia
Published: 2019-06-12T16:00:00+00:00

Longtime friends and fixtures on the Austin scene, writer Molly Ivins and Texas governor Ann Richards proved that well-behaved women seldom make history. They were witty, iconoclastic, bold . . . anything but ladylike.

Until she died in 2007, Molly Ivins was Austin’s resident scourge. She pilloried the foibles of the Texas “lege”—along with those of Congress and the rest of Washington—in her syndicated newspaper columns, published in several collections, including Molly Ivins Can’t Say That, Can She? and Who Let the Dogs In?

Richards, who was governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995, first came to national attention when she delivered the keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention; it included the oft-quoted line “Poor George [H.W. Bush], he was born with a silver foot in his mouth.” Another claim to fame: Richards’ Texas Monthly magazine cover, showing her straddling a large motorcycle and wearing white leathers—which matched her white hair.

Both of these larger-than-life Austinites had one-woman plays devoted to them. In 2012, Kathleen Turner took on the role of Ivins in Red Hot Patriot by Margaret and Allison Engel, while Holland Taylor wrote and played the title role in Ann: The Ann Richards Play, which debuted in 2013. Both plays have been reprised with different lead actors in subsequent years.

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