It’s a passing line, delivered almost as a throwaway by star actor Edie Falco: Her character Polly Noonan, the doyenne of Albany’s 20th-century Democratic machine, tells her husband she is sewing “culottes for Kirsten.”If you aren’t attuned to state politics, the name-drop might not register. It is a sly reference to U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, the granddaughter of the female lead of “The True,” an off-Broadway play about the relationship between Mrs. Noonan and longtime Albany Mayor Erastus Corning.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 20, 2018 16:52 UTC