The DUMBEST Patti LuPone interview I've ever read- Page 2

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 1:51pm

This is not marketing to the theater insiders, or the people who want to know what Lupone's dog eats for breakfast. It's trying to pull in the fringe theatergoers. It's brief, amusing, and to the point. Exactly what it should be for a national newsmagazine.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 1:59pm

If you are quoting an interview shouldn't there be quotation marks? People might think that these are your words.

Updated On: 11/8/05 at 01:59 PM

[paradox_error]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 2:02pm

Bwaytheatre, what was that octuple post about?

[bluesoprano]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 2:03pm

All I can say is WOW!!! I am not surprised that Patti kept a straight face through this interview, but man what was up with those questions? Where they questions this person thought of two seconds before they did the interview. I wonder what Patti's thoughts must have been after this interview, probably like us "This is the dumbest interview I have ever done."

[MackieManiac]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 2:03pm

"I don't know how Patti kept a straight face during this one."

BOTOX.. lots of BOTOX!

Updated On: 11/8/05 at 02:03 PM

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 2:06pm

I'd love to see Dollypop interview Patti. Of course they would have to be serialized in 15 parts. But they'd be worth reading.

He could ask her "Who do YOU think should have won the Tony, Marissa or Bernadette?"

Updated On: 11/8/05 at 02:06 PM

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 2:11pm

I guess I've been out of the big picture too long... When did Newsweek become Tiger Beat?

Can you imagine if this was an interview with an astronaut... Would they ask, "So I hear astronauts are all drunks and get laid a lot?"

This is definitely eyebrow-raising.... and mind numbing. I wouldn't expect it to sound like a "theatre insider" interview. That's too specialized for the masses. But this sounds like Chris Farley in that pitiful sketch with celebrities on Saturday Night Live. Good god.

[MoonOnAstring]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 2:21pm

Yeah, not to mention that the interviewer clearly has no idea what the show is about... that just seems like irresponsible journalism to me.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 2:22pm

I'm the only one who gets it. I'm the only one who can step back and see what he was going for, and how she went with it, and how appealing this would be to more of a mass audience (who guess what - doesn't know what the show is about!)...really?

[NCGuy]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 2:26pm

Patti LuPone seems to have a much better sense of humor than some of the posters on this thread.

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 2:27pm

I was hoping the question would be:

"If the moon were made of cheese, would you eat it?"

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 2:29pm

*kisses NCGuy*

[MoonOnAstring]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 2:29pm

I understand what you're saying, Rath, but they should at least get the basic facts right. And you can have a light-hearted, general interview introducing a show to the magazine's readers without asking completely inane questions.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 2:58pm

What facts didn't they get right? And the questions were fun. Fun, amusing questions for people who don't know all there is to know already about SWEENEY TODD.

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 2:59pm

Look, I get it already. It's FUN.

As someone else pointed out, this interview would work well in Entertainment Weekly in that back section, which is skewed for humor and silly questions and fun.

But when did NEWSWEEK switch to that format???

THAT's my problem with this interview. It's goofy in a magazine that isn't known for that.

[MoonOnAstring]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 3:08pm

The part where she says:

"You play a woman who makes pies out of people your landlady kills"

Unless they changed the plot since the last time I saw the show...

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 3:10pm

Yeah, you can still be loopy, fun and casual, and get your facts right.

Actually there's no excuse for that anywhere in journalism (on any level). But I guess that's typical these days, huh?

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 3:11pm

I didn't see her correcting him...and again, the audience this is skewing to won't know that that is an incorrect detail. They'll see the show whether it's her landlady, the barber on the corner, or the neighborhood nursery school teacher if the whole killing people and making meat pies idea appeals to them.

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 3:16pm

Rath, the non-theatre lover won't care, agreed.

But does that give Newsweek license to be inaccurate? About anything?

These magazines still have fact-checkers, I would assume. Even on a "low profie" fluff interview like this one.

Very puzzling. I've lowered my opinion of this magazine quite a lot today. I hope they're not reporting scientific details with the same attitude or approach, just 'cause "we won't care or know the difference."

Updated On: 11/8/05 at 03:16 PM

[Mini_Mimi17]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 3:17pm

I agree with u about how Patti kept a straight face, I would probly like loose it haha. Patti is such an awesome person lol.

[MoonOnAstring]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 3:20pm

>>> I didn't see her correcting him

That's called class.

When I read things, ESPECCIALLY things I don't know much about, I want them to be accurate.

It's not a big deal, but it is bad journalism.

[Garland Grrrl]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 3:21pm

NEWSWEEK is a R-A-G. the days when newsweeklies were revered like walter cronkite is long over. some poor fact checker trying to make the first payment on their student loans will be flogged, fired and forgotten and life there will go back to normal.

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 3:24pm

I guess that's my big problem... I didn't realize that Newsweek had become such a rag.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 3:33pm

"Hey, Guys. I have to interview some chick named Patti Lupone. Does anyone know anything about this play called 'Swinging Tod?'"
"Ask Bob, he's the gay guy in the office."
"He's working for the Enquirer now."
"Oh, Lucky him. Well, I think it's about some slash that makes pies out of the people that her landlady murders."
"Oh, is that based on the Stephen King book?"
"Yea, I think so."
"Thanks."

Updated On: 11/8/05 at 03:33 PM

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 4:29pm

SueleenGay---I think you nailed it right there.

**laughing and cringing at the same time**