How Hollywood steals — Page 2

"Oh, and BTW, Kristin Chenowith and Nathan Lane ARE Broadway people. They aren't the types Hollywood readily casts."

No, skinny blondes and Phil Silvers knockoffs are not what anyone would ever want to see on tv. Ever.

And Angela Lansbury, you are dead to me. You've crossed the stage/screen line too many times dearie, and none of us appreciate it. I'm forcing my mother to throw out all of your exercise videos.

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Let the actors make their money in tv and film and be able to come back to the stage, which is a real actor's passion. The bills have to be paid, so before we knock an actor for "selling out", that awful movie or tv show they appear in will eventually go away and they will have enough money to come back to us.

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Who exactly was responsible for Bewitched and RV?
allofmylife, did the articles that had you "on the front page of Variety" have anything to do with those hits?

I am just amazed that anyone working in YOUR industry would hate to see talented people getting the chance to expand their careers and make a little money, too.

Perhaps YOU are the problem with Hollywood. So give Jessica Simpson and Julianne Hough a call and make some really good TV!

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Taz, no, they are just slummin'.

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Dept. of Mis-intended consequences.

I open the trades and see that Roger Bart and Norbert Leo Butz have signed to do a pilot for a TV series. Loving Broadway and feeling guilty for being part of an industry that constantly raids Broadway and rarely if ever gives em back, I started this thread.

What I forgot to mention was the Hollywood velocitization effect, where the huge paydays compared to Broadway (and if I knew how to do the ^^%^&^*% italics) and the agents who do everything short of kidnapping their children in order to talk actors out of going back to Broadway (end ^$%$&^%&^$ italics) means many stars end up oput here for the best parts of their careers and Broadway, which basically "developed" the talent again gets the fuzzy end of the lollipop.

Sorry if I wasn't clear on my intentions.

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