Why You Won't See LuPone Gypsy on PBS

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Why You Won't See LuPone Gypsy on PBS

Posted: 8/12/08 at 5:38pm

You won't see LuPone Gypsy on PBS because the National Endowment of the Arts is too busy giving money for book fairs in Mexico.
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re: Why You Won't See LuPone Gypsy on PBS

Posted: 8/12/08 at 5:39pm

k thx

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re: Why You Won't See LuPone Gypsy on PBS

Posted: 8/12/08 at 5:52pm

Just making sure I follow.

The City of LA is donating money to book fairs in Mexico, so PBS won't film "Gypsy" for "Great Peformances."

Is that it?

Updated On: 8/12/08 at 05:52 PM

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Posted: 8/12/08 at 5:53pm

You are correct. And Republicans think that people should be free to enjoy whatever they want, except for drugs and gay sex.

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Posted: 8/12/08 at 5:55pm

So the coke-fueled orgy I was planning to celebrate the broadcast of "Gypsy" is off?

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Posted: 8/12/08 at 5:57pm

"The City of LA is donating money to book fairs in Mexico, so PBS won't film "Gypsy" for "Great Peformances."

$1.6 million could go a long way toward getting a taped version of LuPone Gypsy.

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Posted: 8/12/08 at 6:00pm

But I don't see anywhere that it says that the money LA is spending is being funneled from PBS allocations.

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Posted: 8/12/08 at 6:02pm

Well now we don't have to wonder anymore whether or not "The Light in the Piazza" was responsible for that jump in international illiteracy rates a few years ago.

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Posted: 8/12/08 at 6:07pm

"But I don't see anywhere that it says that the money LA is spending is being funneled from PBS allocations."

The money is coming from the National Endowment of the Arts. The NEA should be offering the money to fund LuPone Gypsy or one of the other Broadway or regional productions.

Anyone remember how many plays were on PBS in the 1970s? Go to the Broadway Theatre Archive and take a look at all of them. There's about 70 of them.

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If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

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re: Why You Won't See LuPone Gypsy on PBS

Posted: 8/12/08 at 6:09pm

"The money is coming from the National Endowment of the Arts. The NEA should be offering the money to fund LuPone Gypsy or one of the other Broadway or regional productions."

Well, I guess Patti lost the coin toss.

Fair is fair.

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Posted: 8/12/08 at 6:13pm

It serves her right for mouthing off to a stage manager in 1979.

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Posted: 8/12/08 at 6:13pm

My Liberal Compromise: Free Copies of Pati's Upcoming Autobiography to Every School Drama Department Member in The U.S.

Kudos on the Roxy-like analysis there, Goth.

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Posted: 8/12/08 at 6:15pm

I'd rather see the SOUTH PACIFIC, but that won't happen either.

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Posted: 8/12/08 at 6:18pm

"Kudos on the Roxy-like analysis there, Goth."

Who let you back in? We were having such a pleasant time while you were in jail.

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If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

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Posted: 8/12/08 at 6:27pm

I'll bet they'd have found the money to film it if Patti hadn't left such a nasty message on Hunter and Jeff's answering machine.

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Posted: 8/12/08 at 8:10pm

Methinks it's not so much the books that are the problem, but more the Mexicans.

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Posted: 8/12/08 at 9:58pm

Goth--thanks so much for the laugh! That's the most hilarious leap of logic I've heard in a long while.

You've truly outdone yourself, which is really saying something.

Bravo!

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Posted: 8/12/08 at 10:26pm

Ah. At long last. FindingNamo, meet Reginald Tresilian. Reggie, Namo.

The two of you have much in common. When you are good, you are very, very good.

And when you are bad, you are glorious.

Oh, and Goth, butch it up.

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Posted: 8/12/08 at 10:57pm

I returned like the Cat in the Hat for Reggie's debut party, 'member?

And Goth, you didn't have anywhere near as lovely a time as I did in jail.

[Speaking of: Big shout outs to Hoss, Girth, and Meat Johnnie! See you again when you get out. xo, with love from your lil boo, "soapy butt." xo]

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re: Why You Won't See LuPone Gypsy on PBS

Posted: 8/12/08 at 11:22pm

At least I have my complimentary Patti Lupone ringtones to keep me company.

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Posted: 8/12/08 at 11:31pm

You get Patti? I get Steve.



It would be funny if the ringtone was the busy signal from the opening to Company...

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re: Why You Won't See LuPone Gypsy on PBS

Posted: 8/12/08 at 11:49pm

Isn't it weird when they try to make Company take place today and they leave a line about the pulse of the city being a busy signal?

!Me gusta los libros!

No me gusta Jesus.

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Posted: 8/13/08 at 9:45am

If you are P.O.ed about how the NEA is spending their money on namby-pamby pursuits, you have your own party to thank, Goth.

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why you can't see lupone

Posted: 8/13/08 at 9:54am

she's using her invisibility cloak!

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#25

why you can't see lupone

Posted: 8/13/08 at 9:56am

Did anyone else hear that there'll be no more "Keeping Up Appearances" on PBS next year?

I didn't get the full story. Something about Mexicans starting to read . . . ?