Why You Won't See LuPone Gypsy on PBS
Why You Won't See LuPone Gypsy on PBS
Why You Won't See LuPone Gypsy on PBS#1
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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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 5:53pmYou 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 5:55pmSo 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 6:00pmBut 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 6:02pmWell 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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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 6:13pmIt 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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re: Why You Won't See LuPone Gypsy on PBS#12
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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Posted: 8/12/08 at 6:27pmI'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 8:10pmMethinks 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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Posted: 8/12/08 at 11:22pmAt 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...
re: Why You Won't See LuPone Gypsy on PBS#21
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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re: Why You Won't See LuPone Gypsy on PBS#22
Posted: 8/13/08 at 9:45amIf 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#24
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 . . . ?
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