Listen, I'm the guy who complained because Jonathan Pryce wasn't allowed to wear the Asian eye pieces in MISS SAIGON. (Colleen Dehurst, you were a great artist, and a lousy president of Equity; no one needed your tut-tutss to help "clean up" casting.) Art is all about deception, suspending disbelief. Anyone should play any role if they want to. Artists need not censor others!
And no one is bitchin' about Ms. Jolie playing Mrs. Pearl, by the way. Surely she used a little of Ava Gardner's Light Egyptian from SHOW BOAT, no?
And Pu-leeze, it's SUELEEN, the classy stripper-singer who made her entrance in emerald green from above, not that trashy Sue ELLEN. Attention must be finally paid.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
Updated On: 7/3/07 at 03:47 PM