Protesting THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS — Page 2

The idiot who says about doing a musical which includes the gas chambers from WW2, well what about Cabaret?

This is a bunch of people who clearly do not understand the show and will not have seen it.

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If I was some kind of marketing genius working for the show, I would get my ass moving, and use this "protest" to sell more tix. There's a genius mktg. gimmick somewhere in this. It ART. It's SUPPOSED to be "controversial"! As the age old saying goes, "There's no such thing as Bad Publicity". (Hopefully).

I don't think they do either.

"In helping Christine O'Donnell protest a production of INTO THE WOODS."


^ LOL

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How dare those Gershwin brothers attempt Porgy and Bess?

How dare Steven Speilberg film The Color Purple?

It's misleading for the protesters to compare the Scottboro young defendants to the Central Park 5.

The Scottsboro defendants were innocent and railroaded.

The Central Park 5 confessed on videotape, then claimed their confessions were coerced. Their convictions were vacated when someone stepped forward and claimed he did it alone. But they have never denied that they were part of the gang of 30 who were in Central Park that night "wilding," as the tabloids called it, or "doing the wild thing," as one of them originally described it.

The Scottsboro defendants were not "doing the wild thing" when they were arrested.

It diminishes the injustice they suffered to equate their convictions with those of the "Central Park 5."

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How dare Tyler Perry direct For Colored Girls. A play celebrating women with a man behind the camera telling them what to do? No wonder it sucks. That's so sexist. I'm a woman; I see this happen all the time and you men don't get it. I'm going to stand outside movie theatres and protest Tyler Perry and Ike Turner and any other man who keeps women down.

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Updated On: 11/7/10 at 01:08 AM

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Updated On: 11/7/10 at 01:45 AM

Does anyone here remember the story "Usher II" from Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles"? In it someone builds a theme park (of some sort) based on the stories of Edgar Allan Poe and at the end of the story the Head of the Moral Climate Monitors is getting walled up alive, as in "The Cask of Amontillado" and the person who is doing the "walling up" is telling him that one of the reasons why he is doing it because the Moral Climate Monitors ban things not because they think that they are obscene, but because they HAVE HEARD that they are obscene.

I always think of that story whenever I hear of something like this.

I also think of the bit in "Men In Black" when Will Smith finds out that there are aliens on Earth. "Why not tell us", he asks Tommy Lee Jones, "People are smart." "No," Jones tells him, "Human Beings are smart. People are stupid."

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There were protests over Jerry Springer: The Opera here in the UK.... More so when it went on tour and was shown on the BBC than when it was in London.

Are we sure they weren't hired by Barry Weissler?

Does anyone remember this unfortunate event?

I wonder if it affected ticket sales.

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