Women on the Verge... was not nearly as bad as people said. It was a victim of a negative dog-piling. It wasn't fashionable to like the show, so everyone jumped on the hate bandwagon. Was it perfect? No. Did it have good things going for it? Absolutely. Patti was divine, but I doubt she'll be nominated. Laura has a chance.
I'm surprised anyone would try to get Patti to give the BC/EFA speech after the whole
Noises Off business...and the fact that she's said MANY times that she doesn't approve of lobbying for money after the show. Whether or not people agree with her, she's made her position pretty clear on this issue.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
