FoxNews jumps the gun -- here's their Lestat review!
FoxNews jumps the gun -- here's their Lestat review!
#0FoxNews jumps the gun -- here's their Lestat review!
Posted: 4/18/06 at 12:45pm
THAT'S A BIG NO-NO, YOU GUYS...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,192088,00.html
#1re: FoxNews jumps the gun -- here's their Lestat review!
Posted: 4/18/06 at 12:48pm
That is the most ignorant review I have ever read.
Is Sunday like Sweeney? No.
What should Lestat be like B & B?
Wow, what a BAD review.
To Kill A Mockingbird
#2re: FoxNews jumps the gun -- here's their Lestat review!
Posted: 4/18/06 at 12:49pmYeah, I don't really care that they didn't like it. It's just crappily written.
#3re: FoxNews jumps the gun -- here's their Lestat review!
Posted: 4/18/06 at 12:49pmHeh. NICE job, Fox. NICE. Let's see how long this thing stays up before someone screams at 'em about it...
Kay, the Thread-Jacking Jedi
Quando omni flunkus moritati (When all else fails, play dead...)
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FranklinShepard-Inc.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/04
#4re: FoxNews jumps the gun -- here's their Lestat review!
Posted: 4/18/06 at 12:53pmlol, even though I thought it's bad, I wouldn't have described it that bad. But I guess most other reviews will be a little bit more outweighed. A have the slight feeling this critic hated the show long before he got into the theatre...
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#5re: FoxNews jumps the gun -- here's their Lestat review!
Posted: 4/18/06 at 12:56pmFox News never reviews theatre, to my knowledge, so I guess they don't know the rules about when reviews are to be made available to the public. And actually, this looks more like a "review" by a gossip/entertainment columnist -- that's tossed in with other news items he's covering -- than a formal official review. You can be sure that he and his editors will be getting a phone call from LESTAT's publicists today informing them that they made a big no-no.
#6re: FoxNews jumps the gun -- here's their Lestat review!
Posted: 4/18/06 at 12:59pmI couldn't tell if that's an actual review (I don't think so) or an editorial column. It certainly skates a fine line...
#7re: FoxNews jumps the gun -- here's their Lestat review!
Posted: 4/18/06 at 1:03pm
Leave to Fox to let some homo-obsessed doofus handle their theater coverage.
And a note to aspiring writers: If you ever find yourself starting a sentence with the imperative verb "Imagine..." erase it, and start over again.
#8re: FoxNews jumps the gun -- here's their Lestat review!
Posted: 4/18/06 at 1:05pm
Wow, they certainly stomped all over Lestat, didnt they...
ThePinballWizard
Leading Actor Joined: 1/25/06
#9re: FoxNews jumps the gun -- here's their Lestat review!
Posted: 4/18/06 at 1:06pmIt's a big NO NO to do that, even if I didn't care for the show. Although it just reaffirms my opinion of the show.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#10re: FoxNews jumps the gun -- here's their Lestat review!
Posted: 4/18/06 at 1:09pm
The truth always hurts 
#11re: FoxNews jumps the gun -- here's their Lestat review!
Posted: 4/18/06 at 1:13pmMe---ouch!
#12re: FoxNews jumps the gun -- here's their Lestat review!
Posted: 4/18/06 at 1:15pm
The quality of the show is not the point to me. What bothers me is:
a) It's a huge breach in SOP.
b) It's more softly written than a freebie newspaper in Kansas.
c) The main theme is: The people in the show act like big queers, so it's icky, icky, icky.
#13re: FoxNews jumps the gun -- here's their Lestat review!
Posted: 4/18/06 at 1:17pmI agree that it does seem to have some homophobic undertones throught the piece.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#14re: FoxNews jumps the gun -- here's their Lestat review!
Posted: 4/18/06 at 1:17pm
"Somehow, Elton and Bernie have managed to write an entire show without any songs."
I wish I had written that line!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#15re: FoxNews jumps the gun -- here's their Lestat review!
Posted: 4/18/06 at 1:19pm
"I agree that it does seem to have some homophobic undertones throught the piece."
SOME???? The author of this piece is channeling Fred Phelps!
#16re: FoxNews jumps the gun -- here's their Lestat review!
Posted: 4/18/06 at 1:21pm
So, any of you e-mailed them yet?
#17re: FoxNews jumps the gun -- here's their Lestat review!
Posted: 4/18/06 at 1:22pmWell I wouldnt say that the whole thing is saying "Gays are bad!" But it does seem to have an alternate agenda beyond critiquing the work.
#18re: FoxNews jumps the gun -- here's their Lestat review!
Posted: 4/18/06 at 1:25pmBrokeback in the hed, homoerotic in the lede. Even John Simon is more subtle in his homo-fixation.
#19re: FoxNews jumps the gun -- here's their Lestat review!
Posted: 4/18/06 at 1:29pm
As inappropriate and poorly written as the entire thing is... this single line:
"You’ve got to hear and see their scenes together, professing eternal love and cooing like blood-drenched love pigeons."
Not only made me spill my diet coke, but made me want to see Carolee cooing like a love pigeon. Blood drenched, at that!
LouW95
Leading Actor Joined: 9/27/03
#20re: FoxNews jumps the gun -- here's their Lestat review!
Posted: 4/18/06 at 1:32pmJust watch FOX NEWS for an hour and you will clearly see it is slanted way to the right. They manage to inject their political views into almost everything they cover.
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#21re: FoxNews jumps the gun -- here's their Lestat review!
Posted: 4/18/06 at 1:42pm
Yeah, let's be clear here: Would it have been written/published if it wasn't to dish Elton, gay sensibility (BROKEBACK, please)and general show queen fervor?
It's like when FOX got so excited that CRASH beat BROKEBACK at the Oscars. The idiots who gloated didn't stop to think that CRASH has something far closer to a "left wing agenda" (read Hagis's interviews--his next project is a frontal asssault on the run-up to Iraq) than anything in the apolitical Ang Lee film. But in today's cultural wars climate, anyting gay-tinged is fodder for right wing venom.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#22re: FoxNews jumps the gun -- here's their Lestat review!
Posted: 4/18/06 at 1:43pm
WHAT???
Gaston isn't Gay?
Don't tell LeFou.
#23re: FoxNews jumps the gun -- here's their Lestat review!
Posted: 4/18/06 at 2:00pmAlthough I am not a fan of the heaping pile known as LESTAT, it really isn't fair to the show for this review to be published already. Given his last paragraph, he seems to know a little about theater....shame on him.
#24re: FoxNews jumps the gun -- here's their Lestat review!
Posted: 4/18/06 at 2:03pmI e-mailed the editor. Waiting for a response.
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