MICHAEL RIEDEL : LOST LACHANZE She's got Donna Murphy syndrome — Page 6

Because Riedel is always right. So that makes you right, too!

What does "gossip columnist" mean to you? I don't get why it's so hard to understand that what he writes it warped truth.

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Updated On: 8/4/06 at 09:54 PM

There is now an update to the article, Lost in La La Land, LaChanze......

Some of your comments are re-printed in the posting! Thanks for those wonderful, blunt, accountable positions!
Lost in La, La Land LaChanze...updated!

"Wanna Be A Foster":

You always begin with name calling and have no where to go except down from that already low position.

Have you ever in your life tried to debate something without demeaning your opposition. Just argue the points. It might win you something besides the pity and sympathy of those who read your senseless rants!

Some of these people don't show up for work! Read everyone esle's comments they are just as strong as mine if not more so.

Updated On: 8/5/06 at 12:03 AM

He's at it again....

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Posse.

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This appears to be a very intense thread.

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Yes, it's hysterical to cite a rulebook that answers a question up for debate: whether actors are paid when they miss. I apologize for my hysterics. So does the League of American Producers and Actors' Equity Association and every Broadway actor-who's-ever-missed-and-been-docked-pay in the history of unionized theatre.

I also think it's funny that you're trying to set a standard for intelligent debate, while lacking the intelligence to spell correctly. Nthing distroys credability fastre then mis-spelled argumants.

Updated On: 8/5/06 at 12:23 AM

hey everyone, i don't really have the patience to read this entire thread as it already is half past midnight.. but i just wanted to post this. It's a direct quote from Ms. Murphy's Downstage Interview online that i posted on a different thread a while back. I don't think it's fair to bash anyone... a lesson i'm trying to learn. Let's just settle with the fact that we are artists. Lets try to co-exist peacefully.
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Okay, for those of you who don't want to listen through the WHOLE interview (although is it is very fascinating) this is what she says about her run in Wonderful Town: (Keep in mind that I'm typing "the spoken word" so it may all seem like one big run on sentence, but I don't want to change her words.)

Donna: The was a lot of controversy this year about the fact that I was sick during the coarse of "king and I”...oh hello... (Laughing and correcting herself) we didn't get to talk about "king and I"! Of "Wonderful Town" and, it was one of the most heartbreaking experiences I've ever had in my life, because I genuinely got ill during the beginning of the run, and then I got a couple of sinus infections that just wiped me out and it was just a show that I couldn't do...(While I was) not well. The truth is that I did it sick a number of times. But there are some writers out there... who make a living, let's face it, as gossip columnists, and that's their job, you know, and I had never experienced anything like that, and I allowed my self to take it personally for a few minutes. I felt so, first of all, responsible in terms of my company and the show and then and we were approaching award season, one person in particular really was harping on my absences and. It just sort of gave a tone like I was making a choice to not be there. I mean, I was making a choice, to not attend the award ceremony, because I was ill and I was trying to get well enough to get back into the show. So there was an inference that I was a certain kind of "diva" who cared about herself and who didn't care about the work or the show and the irony was that, all I was doing was being at home in bed trying to get well, So that I could be back as strongly as possible. Nobody was as upset as I was.
Howard Sherman: It's an awfully loaded word, (They were talking about the word "diva" before) and I only bring it up because it seems to me, at times, to be used unfairly and at times, just kind of interchangeably with "star".
Donna: Right.
Howard Sherman: But it does have all those different meanings obviously some of what we talked about today, the word for you is "actress".
Donna: Thanks... Thank you.

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...hope this brings some sense of understanding or clarity. goodnight!

You can backpeddle all you want Chanticleer (well, you don't know what her SPECIFIC contract says!) but face it, you can argue debate format and structure all you want, you can write condescendingly as if everybody in the world is one of the teenagers you (God forbid) teach, but it's time you learn a very important real world lesson that I bet a majority of the kids you teach already know. Sometimes life isn't fair and you don't get your way.

If the "major star" you're hoping to see isn't in a show, here's hoping said star's name is above the title. Then you can get your money back.

Otherwise, you pays your money and you takes your chances.

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Furthermore, I'm not worried about getting MY money back. As a professional, I invest my time in making things better for others.

I am so glad that these abhorent behaviors are being exposed for the benefit of others.

Finding Namo (LOL), I realize that in your paradigm of thinking you can't get beyond a budget. I moved well beyond that into artistic concerns many years ago.

Thanks.

Updated On: 8/5/06 at 12:54 AM

You should just realize that sometimes life isn't fair, you don't always get your own way, and move along to writing your rave review of Ann Coulter's "Godless."

Your condescension should serve that perfectly.

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I know so many adults who end sentences with "ha, ha."

L.O.N.E.L.Y.