Denzel Stages Battle Against Cell Phones

[do_re_milla]

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]

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

[DAME]

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.

[Gothampc]

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

I still like Patti LuPone's response best:

Go ahead, answer it! We'll wait.

[munkustrap178]

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

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

[Kim_Norway]

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

Brilliant, Gothampc! When did she say that?

[Gothampc]

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.

[melissa errico fan]

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

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

[BroadwayGirl107]

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]

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

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

[melissa errico fan]

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

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

[DAME]

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

And in Orange County

[TheatreDiva90016]

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

I think it is her stock comeback

[Gothampc]

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.

[IMsooHyprToday]

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]

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.

[Mr Roxy]

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

Good for him

[GirlforTartaglia]

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

Aww, that's cute :)