- Maureen Dowd was born on January 14, 1952 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. She is an actress, known for Patriots (1996), Jeopardy! (1984) and The Gospel According to André (2017).
- Pulitzer-prize winning New York Times columnist, based in Washington, D.C. Has worked for the Times since 1983, when she joined as a metropolitan reporter.
- In 1973, received a B.A. in English from Catholic University in Washington, D.C.
- Youngest of five children, was born in Washington, D.C., where her father (who was born in County Clare in Ireland) worked as a Washington, D.C. police inspector.
- Began career in 1974 as an editorial assistant for the Washington Star where she later became a sports columnist, metropolitan reporter and feature writer. When the newspaper closed in 1981, went to work at Time.
- Named a Woman of the Year by Glamour magazine in 1996. Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary. In 2000, won the Damon Runyon Award for outstanding contributions to journalism.
- [on the 'historical' films of 2012] This Oscar season is rife with contenders who bank on the authenticity of their film until it's challenged, and then fall back on the 'Hey, it's only a movie' defense.
- Just as Obama admitted at the end of his presidency that he had not always been "attentive enough" to the parts of the job he did not care for, the theatrics, the "simplistic" displays of feelings and emotions designed "to satisfy the cable news hype-fest", Trump's presidency is the reductio ad absurdum of all that. It is all theatrics, all performance, all form with no content. His script is the only truth.
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