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Also Read: 'Dick Johnson Is Dead' Wins Top Prize at Critics Choice Documentary AwardsFour broadcast categories were announced on Thursday, with “Welcome to Chechnya” landing nominations for editing and cinematography as well as for Outstanding Broadcast Film. In that category, it will be competing with Ivy Meeropol’s “Bully.

Glenn Close, the Tony Award winner and seven-time Oscar nominee, will play powerful New York lawyer Roy Cohn in a charity reading of scenes from the play “Angels in America.” For contrast, Al Pacino won an Emmy for playing Cohn in HBO’s “Angels” miniseries in 2003.The hourlong, taped show, which benefits AMFAR, will be streamed on Broadway.com’s YouTube channel at 8:30 p.m.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticAn all-star digital performance of scenes from Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, benefiting amFAR’s COVID-19 fund, will feature Glenn Close as Roy Cohn, with other roles from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play performed by, among others, Laura Linney, Patti LuPone, S. Epatha Merkerson, Brian Tyree Henry, Paul Dano, Andrew Rannells and Slave Play playwright Jeremy O.

Watch Video: 'Where's My Roy Cohn?' Director Explains How McCarthy's Counsel and Trump Are 'Cut From the Same Cloth'It is unsurprising that Meeropol would lack the objective distance needed to deal with the part of this story that is personal to her, but her attempt midway through the film to contrast her father’s taste for folk music with Cohn’s lust for the disco hits at Studio 54 backfires; the leftist sing-a-longs described here sound far less attractive than the hedonism at that club.

Roy Cohn was a man that wore a lot of different, often controversial hats. He was a lawyer that prosecuted the infamous “atomic spies” case, resulting in the executions of the married couple at the center.

The surest sign of a man’s iniquity is the contempt of his own family. When David Allen Marcus and Alice Marcus, estranged cousins to political fixer, villain, and unrepentant hypocrite Roy Cohn, sit down in front of Ivy Meeropol’s camera to reminisce about him in “Bully.

The director of a new documentary about Roy Cohn is not exactly a neutral party. After all, Cohn played a key role in getting her grandparents executed.

Roy Cohn is one of the more controversial figures in political history. He’s been the subject of numerous books and films over the years, as his harsh tactics have become legendary.

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By Erik Pedersen