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Even the Reaganites are cheering red flag as they watch Victor Hugo epic

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19870108
Author:George F. Will

Writing from Washington

The red flag of revolution flies defiantly atop a barricade that bristles with revolutionaries' muskets, not far from the White House. The masses have risen against Reaganomics? No, Reaganites and others are cheering the red flag and shedding scalding tears when the flag falls to the forces of law and order.

The world is turned upside down. "Les Miserables" has come to town. This stunning 3-hour-20-minute production, distilled from a 1,200-page novel, is bound for Broadway and beyond.

At age 21, Victor Hugo called for a new sort of fiction, on an epic scale to ...

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