“Lee Atwater: Red Hot and Politics.” By Lloyd Rose. Washington Post. October 31, 1995.

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A terrific subject, a terrific actor and a terrific presentation come combustibly together in “Fixin’ to Die: A Visit to the Mind of Lee Atwater,” playing a limited run at the Church Street Theater. Bruce McIntosh gives a live-wire performance as the self-described “Grand Old Party Animal” in Robert Myers’s play — really a series of lit-by-lightning flashes of Atwater’s impressive, depressing, very American career — and George Furth has directed with unobtrusive intelligence and crack timing.

The show starts with Atwater zipping up his fly at a fraternity party featuring a stag film, and there’s a lot of the smug frat boy in McIntosh’s characterization (not accidentally, he occasionally made me think of another example of the type, David Letterman).