NY Times Grease Article- Page 2

[Plum]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 2:25am

I guess so- though heaven knows thinking about the whole story of a girl sexing herself up for a man is a little squirm-inducing now.

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 2:25am

The article - if anything - made them both come off as shallow and full of themselves. They watch old episodes together? They watched the Nick@Nite special that they were both on? I mean, c'mon, let it go. Focus on the stage show, not the celebrity.

[greatwhiteway2]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 6:09am

Not to me, it doesn't. It sounds like two young actors with an immense degree of pressure on them, trying to relax a little, and enjoy some really good moments they had together. As far as not understanding why the change in Sandy is supposed to be good.... I agree with him and so do many other Grease fans. Seeing the characrter suddenly change her entire personna from good girl to sex pot to be accepted by a guy is not generally accepted as "good" as it is portrayed in the play.

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 9:48am

Right.

And having the main star questioning this major plot point without ever actually delving into the subject comes off as confusing, clueless, and ridiculous.

[Anakela]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 1:57pm

I read all the comments here before reading the article, and not only do I agree with the 'poorly written' train of thought (seriously- "In the lobby they know Elvis, the receptionist, and a doorman the size of a bouncer in the kind of a club that their rehearsals under director Kathleen Marshall, six hours a day, six days a week, precluded."- what is that, is that supposed to be a sentence? Is it possible for a written piece to suffer from word vomit?), but, did anyone else feel like it was a little too much info, like a little stalker-y?

I might be a little over-sensitive because Rebecca Schaeffer's killer got shanked in prison recently, and so the whole CA creation of stalking laws have been all over the news recently, but I'm used to 'fluff' pieces that just speak in generic "over lunch at a midtown eatery" type terms, not this whole THIS is the street she walks down, and THESE are the stores that she passes, and THIS is the bar they hang out at, and THIS is the name of the doorman in their building, and whatever, detailing of lives like that. It just creeped me out a little. *shrug*

[greatwhiteway2]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 2:09pm

Well you sre right, he should not be saying anything negative about the play. Hopefully he's realized that now and Lord knows there are enough people doing that for him as it is anyway. But delving into it? I don't think it is that deep of a point that it needs great analysis.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 2:10pm

Now that you mention it, I did get "that" vibe from it. I believe the reporter mentioned how they live in a "barely finished high-rise" in Midtown within a "10-block radius of W. 42nd."

She may as well have given out the address.

[rubyslippersxo]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 2:11pm

That was the worst-written article I think I've ever read. I had trouble understanding what the author was trying to say, so I'm impressed that some of you even understood enough to say that the actors came off dumb.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 2:27pm

I'm just psyched that there are finally two upstanding role models on Broadway for the young people to look up to! Congrats Max and the girl playing Sandy!

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 2:46pm

Hehe

[reichi]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 2:56pm

The New York Times is the epitome of media in NY. Kudos to them for covering Max and Laura.

And they're not trying to reinvent the wheel with Grease.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 2:59pm

If I were Max or Laura, I would rather the NY Times not write about me at all than publish that piece of dreck article.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 3:00pm

That was an awful article. Yuck.

[MarkK]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 3:49pm

Just to clarify, I didn't say they where dumb! I said in my opinion the actors come across as dumb in this article, or vapid might be a better word.

GREASE should have had a Press Agent with those kids to make sure they weren't misrepresented. All the hokey bible talk and weird expositions about their personal lives - eg.

" Mr. Crumm’s convictions rest somewhere between the Student Bible on his desk and the copy of Maxim magazine on his coffee table"

We get it! Your a straight Christian, middle America can breathe a sigh of relif now!


Updated On: 7/29/07 at 03:49 PM

[reichi]

Posted: 7/30/07 at 1:55pm

Yankeefan 007, Max is a better role model than Arod.
Updated On: 7/30/07 at 01:55 PM

[robbiej]

Posted: 7/30/07 at 2:09pm

'We get it! Your a straight Christian, middle America'

Yeah...well...so was...um..."Cowboy". And you should SEE what he's done offstage!

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 7/30/07 at 2:10pm

It took me five minutes to figure out that you meant "A-Rod." I thought "Arod, what's Arod?"

Of course Max is a better role model than A-Rod. Who isn't?

[reichi]

Posted: 7/30/07 at 2:35pm

Just digging on your Yankees!

[Eris0303]

Posted: 7/30/07 at 5:11pm

I read this article a few days ago and I agree with what everyone had said about the article itself and how it was constructed. It didn't help matters that the person who posted it on a different message board posted the link to the second page so I ended up reading that first and being more confused. It was absolutely poorly written and constructed. It does a great disservice to Max, Laura, and the show itself.

And I don't have a problem with Max questioning Sandy's big change at the end. And for all we know he did delve deeper into the issue but the writer simply chose to not include it. Maybe what Max had to say was too cerebral for what the writer had in mind. We don't know the answer to that.

In fact, I discuss the "moral" of Grease practically every day at work. I have to discuss High School Musical a lot at work and people are always making comments about how it's "this generation's Grease". And then someone else makes the comment about how High School Musical has a better point than Grease. Grease is about changing to fit in while High School Musical is about NOT changing.

One more point before I go. I went through a point in my life where I was Grease obsessed. But as I grew up, learned, and gained life experience I realized I just didn't like it as much anymore. But when I loved it my father was always telling me how much he disliked it. It actually used to upset me when he called Sandy a "jerk" for doing what she did. He said she went from being a "nice girl" to a "jerk". My father would have been in high school at the time Grease took place so this was a lifestyle he most likely witnesses and he had a very strong opinion on the lifestyle and the film itself.