NY1's Roma Torre reviews "Rain" (and makes mistakes)

I think this kind of journalistic mistake is grounds for her to be fired from NY1 and she should also be sent to theorems east and publicly stoned. Thsts the only way people will get the message and this will never happen again.

She always makes mistakes. It's nothing new.

Editors anyone?

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There's a morning radio guy up here in Albany area who constantly makes pop culture info mistakes and I swear sometimes I want to volunteer my services as pop culture fact checker.

Maybe I should offer them to Roma instead. Aren't the song titles printed in the Playbill anyway?

It's times like this that I miss Sharon Diezenhaus. Whether she was right or not, Sharon always looked well put together and acted like she enjoyed talking theater. Roma always looks like it's her PMS time and Donna never combs her hair.

It's NY1, you can't expect a lot from them. But as bad as they are, they never made a huge mistake like the New York Times (was it Ben Brantley?). During the Bernadette "Gypsy" they wrote an article and stated that the last song in the musical was called "Mama's Turn." If the NY Times is going to have dipsh*t interns write articles about the Classics, the least they could do is teach them how to use the internet.

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Not to burst your bubble or anything but she is not naming the songs in that review in that way, shes trying to be amusing by saying their songs make us want to 'Come togther, twist and shout and feel just fine. Shes using song titles and lines from songs. She finshes saying To the detractors, I'd have to say "Let it Be."

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"You may be right, but if Roma really wanted it to seem that way, she would have written it without quotation marks."

I don't think this was written to be read. I think this is a transcript of what was broadcast during the show and NY1 just posts is as a written review.

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Another one of her gems that I guessed before reading her review was for "The Human Scale." I guessed that she would add something in about balance and lo and behold, at the end of her review, she wrote that the playright "finds balance in the truth." Gag.

There's a morning radio guy up here in Albany area who constantly makes pop culture info mistakes

I don't live in the area anymore, but Chuck and Kelly (I can't remember which station) always bungled their references, and the guy on FLY 92 was, ironically, even worse.

But for this, it's whoever transcribed it who made it look stupid. I don't mind Roma Torre's reviews when I see them. I never read the transcripts because they always read much cheesier than it sounds when she's giving the review.

The upstate guy is Paul Vandenburgh, who used to be on WROW 590 and now runs his own station called 1300Talk. His producer isn't usually much help. I actually did email when he screwed up who was who in ABBA (Agnetha vs. Frida) and he got very pissy on the air.