"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
"Sierra Boggess [DD nominee]? I'm not even sure who she is, and I saw 'Little Mermaid.' Well, the first act. Was she in the first act?"
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Since one of my best friends had polio in the 1950's, the crippled husband discussion was unbelievably tasteless and hurtful. C'mon, Reidel - draw the line somewhere.
I think its time to trot out a little Pansy Division:
He thinks he's Oscar Wilde, but he's Paul Lynde Can't say anything good about anything He flips his cigarette with disdain You've failed to live up to his standards again He's a negative queen, he's a negative queen
He reads all the latest magazines He's quick to follow, but thinks he's in the lead He was there and you weren't You're out of it, you're not current He's a negative queen, he's a negative queen
He drips disdain, he's lacking tact He's popular in a scene Where being nice is a radical act
Everything's got to be just so If it's not, he'll let you know Don't put up posters on Castro Street He'll rip them down so he can shop in peace He's a negative queen, he's a negative queen
He struts into a bar with swagger Stumbles out later with a stagger Spent half his life in a bar Now he looks so haggard No sympathy for a braggart
Everything's got to be just so If it's not, he'll let you now Darling, you simply haven't lived Unless you've lived like him He's a negative queen, he's a negative queen
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
YIKES. I will respond with my favorite line from PASSING STRANGE: "WHAT'S INSIDE IS JUST A LIE" Isn't there anything more exciting to write about? PS I LOVED A CATERED AFFAIR. Not one snore in my row. Updated On: 4/30/08 at 09:51 AM
Keen on Kean.. I think he was saying that he thought it was in bad taste too... It was not his opinion just what he heard.... But I could be wrong.
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
Skipping over the nasty side for a sec- does anyone else agree with his prediction that YF is going to get *two* of the five featured actress slots? (Andrea Martin and Sutton Foster)
I wouldn't bet on Mulally but on the other hand, we all know how starry eyed the nominating committee can be. In other words, she's not giving a nomination worthy performance IMO.
I liked A Catered Affair as well. But in all seriousness, if I had gone to the performance on a weekday night after a long day at work, it would have seemed a totally show.
His point seemed to be that the comments made by the producers/press agents/etc were more vicious than even he would dare to be. Don't know. The Sierra comment was pretty funny though.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
hang on to that song, we're gonna need it for the tony nom's
also can we get it printed on shirts to hand out?
Attend the tale of Bovine Boy
His party threads we all enjoy
But does he have Mad Cow Disease?
He doesn't eat beef - but cows skating? - oh please!!!
With cocoa!?!
And lemonade!?!
The heifer-mad poster of Broadway
(World)
I have to say that after watching The Little Mermaid.. it was really the Ariel/Ursula show.... How about the two of them do SIDE SHOW?
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
The bottom line is winning a Tony does not mean sh*t anymore. Even if/when Patti L. wins the Tony for "Gypsy" what will it do her? She is not going to star in any film remake of it. She should be smart and try to get a gig like Angela Bassett on an A-level drama for a season, like "Boston Legal" or one of the "CSIs".
Do you know what happens when you let Veal Prince Orloff sit in an oven too long?
There are a lot of us who see our very talented friends work very hard. When their peers acknowledge that with a Tony nomination or a win, it means a lot to us because we know how much work went into that achievement.
By your definition, the Pulitzer Prize is also a waste of an award because it won't land you a 7 figure salary.
btw, unlike a lot of the bashers, I actually saw Little Mermaid and if you saw how well Sierra performed "Beyond My Wildest Dreams" and elevate a pretty mediocre book with some pretty solid acting I think her nomination makes a lot more sense.
Flame away.
If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them. - Ethel Merman
From what my friends have told me, I'm not sure why Sutton has so much hoopla about her. She seems to just be doing her same ol' same ol' just in a different show. My friends raved about Mulallay though.
My point is that by including those remarks he takes a casual stupid remark and memorializes it. I would feel just as offended if the remark was racist, or sexist. He is participating in the behavior that he seems to be criticizing.