Denzel Stages Battle Against Cell Phones

[do_re_milla]

Denzel Stages Battle Against Cell Phones#0

Posted: 4/20/05 at 11:45am

Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington, who is playing Brutus in the Broadway revival of "Julius Caesar," has come up with a new defense against pesky ringing cell phones during live performances: iambic pentameter.

Washington told CBS's "60 Minutes Wednesday" that "one of these days I'm going to respond in iambic pentameter: `Answereth that, my lord. My lord, it is for you."

Milla

Denzel vs. Cell Phones Updated On: 4/20/05 at 11:45 AM

[TheatreDiva90016]

re: Denzel Stages Battle Against Cell Phones#1

Posted: 4/20/05 at 2:23pm

Brilliant idea!

I know there have been other clever incidents with ringing cell phones. One of my favorites was "The New Bozena". It was a show basically about a day in the life of three clowns. They had toy cell phones hidden all over the set, and whenever one started ringing in the audience, they just stopped whatever they were doing, gabbed the toy cell phones and literally went into the house looking for the offending caller, babbling into their cell phones.

The person was always SO humiliated afterwards

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[DAME]

re: Denzel Stages Battle Against Cell Phones#2

Posted: 4/20/05 at 2:30pm

You know; in Los Angeles at the DGA they now make you check them in. They have metal detectors in the front and they have a big guy named Emilio standing in the back of the theater. If you snuck a phone in and they see youon it.. THEY REMOVE YOU.

HUSSY POWER! ------ HUSSY POWER!

[Gothampc]

re: Denzel Stages Battle Against Cell Phones#3

Posted: 4/20/05 at 2:48pm

I still like Patti LuPone's response best:

Go ahead, answer it! We'll wait.

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.

[munkustrap178]

re: Denzel Stages Battle Against Cell Phones#4

Posted: 4/20/05 at 2:51pm

Wow, like speaking in iambic pentameter will really intimidate someone to now answer their phone......

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[Kim_Norway]

re: Denzel Stages Battle Against Cell Phones#5

Posted: 4/20/05 at 3:20pm

Brilliant, Gothampc! When did she say that?

[Gothampc]

re: Denzel Stages Battle Against Cell Phones#6

Posted: 4/20/05 at 3:27pm

LuPone said it in one of her concerts. Can't remember whether it was during the NYC run or out on the road.

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.

[melissa errico fan]

re: Denzel Stages Battle Against Cell Phones#7

Posted: 4/20/05 at 3:38pm

I thought Dennehey was the one who said, "Go ahead, answer it. We'll wait".

[BroadwayGirl107]

re: Denzel Stages Battle Against Cell Phones#8

Posted: 4/20/05 at 3:51pm

What struck me most about the article, strangely enough, is that is says he's making $1,700 a week. Is it me, or does that soud like a mistake?

[ElTico68]

re: Denzel Stages Battle Against Cell Phones#9

Posted: 4/20/05 at 3:54pm

Patti said the same thing here in Seattle last week...

Happy, smile! Sad, frown! Use the corresponding face with the corresponding emotion! - Kate (Meg Ryan), French Kiss

[melissa errico fan]

re: Denzel Stages Battle Against Cell Phones#10

Posted: 4/20/05 at 3:55pm

Good for Patti. A cellphone going on during a show is the epitomy of rudeness.

[DAME]

re: Denzel Stages Battle Against Cell Phones#11

Posted: 4/20/05 at 3:55pm

And in Orange County

HUSSY POWER! ------ HUSSY POWER!

[TheatreDiva90016]

re: Denzel Stages Battle Against Cell Phones#12

Posted: 4/20/05 at 3:55pm

I think it is her stock comeback

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[Gothampc]

re: Denzel Stages Battle Against Cell Phones#13

Posted: 4/20/05 at 4:02pm

"What struck me most about the article, strangely enough, is that is says he's making $1,700 a week. Is it me, or does that soud like a mistake?"

Sounds like a mistake. Even if he were getting a percentage of the profit, it still seems too low for his star caliber. This is not his Broadway debut.

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.

[IMsooHyprToday]

re: Denzel Stages Battle Against Cell Phones#14

Posted: 4/20/05 at 5:41pm

well, the way he was talking about it, it seems like he would have done it for free. lord knows he doesnt need the money...

[redhotinnyc2]

re: Denzel Stages Battle Against Cell Phones#15

Posted: 4/20/05 at 6:49pm

I live for the day that cell phones are banned from being used in public unless it is for a medical emergency.

"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!" Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!

[Mr Roxy]

re: Denzel Stages Battle Against Cell Phones#16

Posted: 4/20/05 at 8:28pm

Good for him

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[GirlforTartaglia]

re: Denzel Stages Battle Against Cell Phones#17

Posted: 4/20/05 at 8:30pm

Aww, that's cute :)

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