Veteran Broadway actress asks: ‘Where’s John Wilkes Booth when you need him?’

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Veteran Broadway actress asks: ‘Where’s John Wilkes Booth when you need him?’
By Judy Kurtz - 09/10/18 11:10 AM EDT

Veteran Broadway actress Carole Cook referenced Abraham Lincoln's assassin while responding to a question about President Trump, asking: “Where is John Wilkes Booth when you need him?"

“Now will that get me in trouble?” Cook, 94, added during a Sunday interview with TMZ.

The remark came after the entertainment news site asked Cook — who starred in “42nd Street” and “Hello, Dolly!” on Broadway — about a “Frozen” actor ripping a pro-Trump flag from an audience member’s hands during a curtain call last week.

“He killed presidents,” Cook’s husband, standing alongside her, said of Booth.

“Don’t say that,” Cook shot back. “They’ll get me for that.”

Booth assassinated Lincoln in 1865 during a performance at Ford’s Theatre in Washington.

“Will I be on an enemies list?” the nonagenarian performer — who also appeared in 1984’s “Sixteen Candles” — continued, as her husband stood alongside her, smiling. “My God, I hope so.”

“Just keep me out of jail,” Cook added.

http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/405863-veteran-broadway-actress-asks-wheres-john-wilkes-booth-when-you

[verga]

Proof that wisdom does not always come with age.

[skeeter]

If Ms Cook thinks she's being edgy she needs to pay closer attention to current events. The indigent actor Johnny Depp already went there and no one noticed.

[Wingnut]

She may not have been alive in Lincoln's time but she looks like she has pulled a lot of horse and buggies.

[jmyrlefuller]

Par for the course for Broadway.

[Sanguine]

Her Spartacus moment. 

[Slide Rule]

Who?

:)