LuPone on McDonald — Page 9

I haven’t had this much fun since Beanie got fired!

Patti was not the most pleasant person to meet.

Well this seems prophetic:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Huv1pGndJfI

Donna Murphy and Viola Davis have entered the fray!

High Flying Abhored.

verywellthensigh said: "Kecia was overdramatic, self-righteous, and conflating a minor conflict into major abuse.

Patti is basically the "Sure Grandma, lets get you to bed" meme personified with a side order of "Okay, Boomer".

The chances of anyone on this board having to deal with either them in any kind of involved way is nil. And that's a good thing.

On things that matter: Did you all see that footage of the silhouette of a child wandering through a firebombed school in Gaza?

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I know i’ve said some very strong things in this thread (and i meant every last one of them) but you didn’t feel utterly bizarre when you searched for this picture of a child in the midst of suffering so that you could use it as a cudgel in this unrelated discussion? I mean this is like….what?

Ke3 said: "verywellthensigh said: "Kecia was overdramatic, self-righteous, and conflating a minor conflict into major abuse.

Patti is basically the "Sure Grandma, lets get you to bed" meme personified with a side order of "Okay, Boomer".

The chances of anyone on this board having to deal with either them in any kind of involved way is nil. And that's a good thing.

On things that matter: Did you all see that footage of the silhouette of a child wandering through a firebombed school in Gaza?

"

I know i’ve said some very strong things in this thread (and i meant every last one of them) but you didn’t feel utterly bizarre when you searched for this picture of a child in the midst of suffering so that you could use it as a cudgel in this unrelated discussion? I mean this is like….what?"

Anything to bring perspective, which, as many have noticed, has been all but obliterated in this doozy of a thread. Not even a cudgel or a finger wag. Those are your tools.

halfhourcheckwithmerman said: "Patti does not come off very well in this profile.

While, of course, understanding that much of that is based on actual words that have come out of her actual mouth, all I will add is that Michael Schulman, in my experience,has made a career off of writing these profiles --- profiles of famous individuals where he creates a persona for them in his head and then writes a profile, as dishy as can be, where he does all he can to confirm that persona. I find it a little repugnant, and not good journalism on top of that.

Take that last paragraph: ""What a beautiful day."It was. In Central Park, New Yorkers were strolling among the apple blossoms. “Oh, people sitting by themselves, lonely as hell,” LuPone observed, peering from her window. “HA!Just lonely as hell out there.”"

With one inserted sentence in the middle, he'staken a random odd salty comment from an older woman and subtly used it as proof that she can't appreciate the park, the people outside, the nice day, etc. etc. etc.

Moments like this are littered through the profile ("like a tigress ready to pounce"? really?).Of course, thatdoesn't excuse many of these comments (especially the words on Kecia Lewis... as iluvtheatertrash has said, going for her vet status and calling her a "bitch" is really not the move).

Just my two cents on the amount that I discredit Schulman's byline."

I know I'm late to the conversation (it took me a while to wade through all 9 pages), but I'm curious about this. In reading the profile Patti doesn't exactly come off well (nice she ain't), but I thought it was a rather well-rounded look at who she was. It's sympathetic to her early struggles while diligent about checking her claims and adding necessary context for some of the more reactionary incidents. I suppose you could say it implies that her early struggles in large part formed the way she is now, but that's something I find quite believable just based on what I know of her life from the outside. I haven't read anything else from Schulman, but from what I've gathered from this and other public information it doesn't seem like he's really manufacturing much?

FolliesCabaret said: "I didn't get my foreskin cut off in front of everyone as a child to be called antisemitic on BroadwayWorlddot com of all places. Very quick to jump to the antisemitic label! But two pages ago didn't you say:

"Oh and the labeling of people as racist makes you the big part of the bigger problem. That is all."

Switch out racism for antisemitism, babe.

xo, a biracial anti-zionistjew :)"

It reads antisemetic to me. Same as Patties interview is problematic. Can we stick to the subject that hand?

Cool. Well if it reads antisemitic there, you'll love reading where I clarified one post below it. I don't really care if what I'm saying as an anti-zionist Jewish person comes off as antisemitic because the only people who ever call me antisemitic are zionists. Like what's not clicking for you?