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Riedel Prediction
#25re: Riedel Prediction
Posted: 6/29/06 at 3:47pmIt's not closing over this summer. Sales are increasing and it's only the beginning of tourist season.
To Kill A Mockingbird
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#26re: Riedel Prediction
Posted: 6/29/06 at 3:48pmEverything Riedel says is true. I know for a fact that he makes sure to get all of his ducks in a row before they print the story.
jdixon69
Understudy Joined: 1/9/04
#27re: Riedel Prediction
Posted: 6/29/06 at 3:56pm
But if his claim to fame is "inside sources", wouldn't his consistently getting stuff like this wrong suggest that he is exagerrating the extent of his access, to a maliciously deceptive degree?
And wouldn't my inability to spell "exagerrate" indicate I'd be better off reading the dictionary than posting on message boards?
#28re: Riedel Prediction
Posted: 6/29/06 at 4:08pmHe does have inside sources, but he never claimed that anyone told him that THE WEDDING SINGER would close. It was HIS independant prediction.
#29re: Riedel Prediction
Posted: 6/29/06 at 4:21pm
But if he knows what he's talking about, what could possess him to make such a stupid prediction? There was nothing about its grosses to suggest that it would be closing by the end of the month. Unless he had inside info that the advance past the end of the month was virtually nonexistant. In which case he should no longer trust his source.
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#30re: Riedel Prediction
Posted: 6/29/06 at 4:23pmThe show is not very good, but its the type of Losest Common Denominator Theater that brings in the tourists.
#31re: Riedel Prediction
Posted: 6/29/06 at 4:24pm
He. Never. Said. That. He. Was. Told. That. The. Wedding. Singer. Would. Close.
IT.
WAS.
A.
PREDICTION.
And a half prediction to that. It was just his way of saying, once again, that he thinks THE WEDDING SINGER is garbage. And, the grosses for THE WEDDING SINGER were not good before they got their little boost from non-stop TV and radio ads, and their performance on the Tony's.
#32re: Riedel Prediction
Posted: 6/29/06 at 4:28pmRiedel's predictions may be terrible, but his insider information is almost always correct.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#33re: Riedel Prediction
Posted: 6/29/06 at 4:30pmEven Riedel has said his predictions are awful. When his "post-Tonys column" came out, his last line was something to the effect of: "and the people who got the most wrong were Elisa Winter of USA Today and I. See you on the unemployment line, Elisa!"
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#34re: Riedel Prediction
Posted: 6/29/06 at 4:31pm
So he was wrong about this and he is wrong about "Hairspray". Why keep defending him? Are you Mr. Riedel in disguise?
Speaking of Mr. R, there was a good movie that came and went a few months back called "Game Six". It took place on the day of the sixth game of the 1986 World Series between the Mets and the Red Sox but it was a movie about theatre. There was a much hated Riedel like critic played by Robert Downey, Jr.
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#35re: Riedel Prediction
Posted: 6/29/06 at 4:32pmwas he as hated as brantley? Oh wait, i guess no one really hates Brantely, they just feel sorry for him.
jdixon69
Understudy Joined: 1/9/04
#36re: Riedel Prediction
Posted: 6/29/06 at 4:32pm
Of course it's a prediction. Any time you declare something will happen in the future, it's a prediction. But it was an incorrect prediction, and far from his first.
I just think it's sad that a guy who serves as a source of information for many casual Broadway fans, who could be sort of a classy ambassador for the industry as a whole, is so mean and wrong all the time.
#37re: Riedel Prediction
Posted: 6/29/06 at 4:33pm
How can he be wrong about HAIRSPRAY when no one knows for sure yet? He said that HAIRSPRAY may close - not that HAIRSPRAY will close.
And even if HAIRSPRAY was looking at closing or moving - it wouldn't be announced to the general public this early.
Some people have absolutely no concept of "truth" and "Predictions."
#38re: Riedel Prediction
Posted: 6/29/06 at 4:44pmMean and wrong all the time? Michael Reidel is a very reliable source of information. He is a gossip columnist though and what he gossips about isn't always true. The man is intelligent and has his finger on the pulse of Broadway. He is no fool and makes his money gossiping. Destroying careers isn't what he's paid for, he's paid to gossip and if that gossip is detrimental, well he's still doing his job.
kooky
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/05
#39re: Riedel Prediction
Posted: 6/29/06 at 5:02pm
Reidel - - - OH PLEASE ! Why doesn't he GET A LIFE ! I'm sure he has to destroy
more careers before he does that . He should live and be well !
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#40re: Riedel Prediction
Posted: 6/29/06 at 5:06pm
FYI: everyone listen to Sumofallthings. Riedel is a GOSSIP COLUMNIST. It's his job to print the GOSSIP. He is NOT a critic and he does not broadcast any reviews.
Don't forget what paper he's working for....
jdixon69
Understudy Joined: 1/9/04
#41re: Riedel Prediction
Posted: 6/29/06 at 5:21pm
When I was a teenager, there were two very popular gossip magazines. One, the "National Enquirer", got things right about 60% of the time, and seemed to be a place where people went if they had a (true) story to tell that was too hot for the mainstream press to handle. The other, the "Weekly World News", was right 0% of the time, but had stories that were so entertaining (Bat Boy! Clinton Meets Aliens!) that it was a must-read.
I think Michael's trying to be both at the same time, and that don't work.
When he effortlessly segues from a personal slam at, say, Wedding Singer, into "news" about Wedding Singer that also happens to be bad, doesn't that make you suspect that he has an agenda that colors his "reporting"? That maybe Margo Lion didn't comp his cousin's Hairspray tickets?
Face it: Cindy Adams gets better Broadway scoops than Riedel, and she's 109 years old.
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#42re: Riedel Prediction
Posted: 6/29/06 at 5:25pmThe Weekly World News is still a Must Read.
#43re: Riedel Prediction
Posted: 6/29/06 at 5:26pm
Dixon, you are 100% incorrect.
Cindy Adams is 117.
jdixon69
Understudy Joined: 1/9/04
#44re: Riedel Prediction
Posted: 6/29/06 at 5:31pmWriting for the Weekly World News is kind of my dream job.
#45re: Riedel Prediction
Posted: 6/29/06 at 7:05pmSo much alliteration!
DryMartini
Stand-by Joined: 3/20/06
#46re: Riedel Prediction
Posted: 6/29/06 at 10:58pmMust have such a small....or it's not even worth talking about....to be Michael Reidel
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