Here's a question for those of us who like to read politics into everything: Did Joe and Jill Biden attend the March 20 opening of "Othello" with Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal so that their not going to Thursday's opening of "Good Night,

Some big names in Hollywood came out to see George Clooney's highly anticipated Broadway debut in "Good Night, And Good Luck" on Thursday. CBS News New York's Dick Brennan was there for opening night.

But the stage adaptation of “Good Night, and Good Luck,” starring George Clooney as Edward R. Murrow, speaks so directly to the present moment that if the story weren’t true — and the film hadn’t already been made in 2005 — it would seem almost pandering.