most produced contemporary playwrights in america, who, i think, is a very talented person with tourette's syndrome. [laughter] but i also feel like i want-- i feel like dissent and controversy is essential to a democracy, so, yes. do i have problems with work that's funded? often. i have problems with most of mainstream culture, and this is what?-- only a ten-hour show-- so we can just go over-- we can just do a lightning strike of them. but i feel like we should have a diversity of opinions out there. and you would not be in favor of government funding popular culture, things that already have market appeal? the n.e.a. was set up to fund work that wasn't going to be necessarily funded by the marketplace and this recognition that there is a lot of culture that isn't going to reach a mass audience and that that's an important part of, you know, our heritage. and, also, it makes-- you know, a lot of popular cultural events are not accessible to working-class poor people, even middle-class. i mean, think about, like-- i would have loved to see the barbra streisand concert, but it was a littl