“Atwater World: “Fixin’ to Die” Explores the Faustian Life of a Political Henchman.” By Chris Jones. New City. February 1996.

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The play has received decent notices for productions in Washington, D.C., and South Carolina; and Myers has finished a version the script that will be made into an HBO movie this year. A commercial run of the play, based on Atwater’s published and recorded words, is expected back inside the Beltway this fall; it’s an ideal piece for a presidential election year.

“It’s difficult to know whether Atwater simply understood how cynical people were getting about politics in the 1980s, or if he actually made people cynical above and beyond what they already were,” Myers says. “His trying to make a genuine gesture at the end of his life was a very Faustian moment.”