The official Christine Baranski apology
Many years ago, at an extended family vacation, my mother insisted that she had seen the actress Christine Baranski while riding on a Bonanza bus between Hartford and Manhattan. While she was quite inststent about it, the bus part sounded a little odd to the rest of the family. A star of stage and screen on ...
Many years ago, at an extended family vacation, my mother insisted that she had seen the actress Christine Baranski while riding on a Bonanza bus between Hartford and Manhattan. While she was quite inststent about it, the bus part sounded a little odd to the rest of the family. A star of stage and screen on a Bonanza bus? It seemed implausible. For the rest of the vacation, therefore, my family had some fun with my mother, repeatedly: Asking my mother when her hallucinations about Christine Baranski had started; Insisting that Christine Baranski must be stalking my mother, and that at that very moment she ight be right around the corner; Ending any story with, "and then, wouldn't you know it, Christine Baranski showed up -- in a bus!" I bring this all up because today I received an e-mail from my mother about this Ron Dicker story in the Hartford Courant. It opens with the following sentence: Christine Baranski heard she got the part in the film version of "Mamma Mia!" while riding a Bonanza bus from New York to home in Connecticut. I hereby officially apologize to my mother for ever doubting that she saw Christine Baranski on a Bonanza bus. Sorry, Mom.
Many years ago, at an extended family vacation, my mother insisted that she had seen the actress Christine Baranski while riding on a Bonanza bus between Hartford and Manhattan. While she was quite inststent about it, the bus part sounded a little odd to the rest of the family. A star of stage and screen on a Bonanza bus? It seemed implausible. For the rest of the vacation, therefore, my family had some fun with my mother, repeatedly:
- Asking my mother when her hallucinations about Christine Baranski had started;
- Insisting that Christine Baranski must be stalking my mother, and that at that very moment she ight be right around the corner;
- Ending any story with, “and then, wouldn’t you know it, Christine Baranski showed up — in a bus!”
I bring this all up because today I received an e-mail from my mother about this Ron Dicker story in the Hartford Courant. It opens with the following sentence:
Christine Baranski heard she got the part in the film version of “Mamma Mia!” while riding a Bonanza bus from New York to home in Connecticut.
I hereby officially apologize to my mother for ever doubting that she saw Christine Baranski on a Bonanza bus. Sorry, Mom.
Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner
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