He played Henry, the old Man, in “The Fantasticks” and Peppermint Patty in “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown,” sizable school productions in which boys sometimes had to play girls. (Indianapolis Star)
Tonight, Bill Maher cited Judge Roberts’ playing the role of Peppermint Patty as part of the circumstantial evidence that Roberts will be our first gay Supreme Court justice. (Now, I must say that never dawned on me as a possibility!)
Panelist Joy Behar, the comedian and The View co-host, was crestfallen. “Now you’ve ruined it,” she told Bill. “I thought he was going to be the first f–kable judge on the Supreme Court … since Felix Frankfurter.”
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