You don't know about the "teenybopper" description? Do you mean you don't know why anyone would use that word? Because in the last week alone he's had a cell phone thrust in his face and had to talk to someone he doesn't know, and then not seconds after the call was over there was a hysterical post on this board. People have talked about sending him to each other in a box wearing - and I can't even finish that sentence. And before anyone jumps down my throat, I know no one really intends to do that, but the fact that it's being discussed in such a blase fashion is unsettling. (And he's not the only one, I know, but he's the subject in this thread so I'm going to stick to that.) It's like he's not even a person.
Teenybopper or not - I agree, feinstein9. If you check the archives of the yahoo mailing list that someone started a few years ago, most of the posts were about seeing performances of his shows or discussions of what was coming up. I know people were probably just as intense about their feelings back then as they are now, but I don't recall anyone objectifying him like people are doing now, talking about him like he's a deity one minute and then like a piece of meat the next.
I'm wondering, too, why now and not a few years ago. Sure, ttb was a small off Broadway show, so I'll allow that maybe that's why this didn't happen back then. But Cabaret was a very popular long-running Broadway show, and he had two runs in that. And the Sondheim Celebration was a very high-profile project, and he got a bit of attention for being the only actor who had a lead role in two out of the six productions. It seems so random that this started happening during The Normal Heart, of all shows. And I don't mean people liking him; I mean the hysteria, the nicknames, and the innuendo.
P.S. You don't have to be a young girl to act like a teenybopper.
"The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility."
Updated On: 9/26/04 at 12:32 PM
