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HeldenFiles: Tales of Michael Oatman, Tad Devine, Kenny Lofton and Walter Kirn

Oh, the places we go, the people we see …

When Oatman met Coulter. You may have seen some of the debate surrounding director Michael Oatman’s casting a white actor as Martin Luther King Jr. in a production at Kent State University. But Oatman can handle the heat. After all, he’s wrangled with commentator Ann Coulter on national television.

It was back in 1999 that Bill Maher and his ABC show Politically Incorrect came to Cleveland in search of a “citizen panelist” — a regular person to join celebrities on the show in discussing current events.