Sit seven rows from the stage at “Good Night, and Good Luck” on Broadway, and you’re bound to catch a whiff of prop cigarette smoke.
Cigarettes — and the fading pulse of the Fourth Estate — took top billing during Thursday night’s premiere at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York. For every celebrity with a vape in hand, journalists in the crowd absorbed George Clooney’s call to arms under a sobering haze of scrutiny.
Among those in the room were Jake Tapper, George Stephanopoulos, Lesley Stahl, Chris Wallace, Rachel Maddow and CBS chief George Cheeks, seated alongside A-listers Drew Barrymore, Uma Thurman and Lorne Michaels. The red
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