San Diego CityBeat
"I certainly have views that track toward being liberal, but I'm not a part of either political party," New York Times columnist
Frank Rich tells
Anders Wright. "It's shocking to me how many people who've read me as a columnist never even knew I was a theater critic. I'll never forget, two or three months after I started on the op-ed page, I ran into a congressperson at a cocktail party in New York, whose district, I think it's safe to say, would have a huge number of people who work in the New York theater living in it, and she said, 'You know, I've been reading your column -- where did they find you?'"