"Tony-winner Raul Esparza"

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"Tony-winner Raul Esparza"

Posted: 12/10/08 at 12:49am

Great fact checking NY Times. And way to rub salt in his wound(s)!

"Television advertisements for “Speed-the-Plow” have highlighted the well-known playwright David Mamet and its TV stars, Jeremy Piven and Elisabeth Moss, as well as the Tony-winner Raúl Esparza."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/10/theater/10ads.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=theater

Updated On: 12/10/08 at 12:49 AM

#2

re: 'Tony-winner Raul Esparza'

Posted: 12/10/08 at 2:15am

I noticed that too! I had to take a second look and started questioning myself before realizing it was their mistake.

#3

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Posted: 12/10/08 at 11:29am

Wishful thinking, perhaps?

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#4

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Posted: 12/10/08 at 1:12pm

Sorry, Mr. Brantley, but no matter how hard you wish, it hasn't happened yet.

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#5

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Posted: 12/10/08 at 1:23pm

Oh THANKS. Seriously. REMIND us of that awful let down. BLAH.


Eh, well, it WILL be true... it's only a matter of time :P

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#6

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Posted: 12/11/08 at 1:06am

A friend in NYC swears up and down that he saw an ad for the show calling Raul a Tony-winner. Any truth to this?

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Posted: 12/11/08 at 5:44am

The Company DVD extra feature where the first thing he presents is his tony noms and pauses as if he's about to win for Company spring to mind. The man is EXTREMELY talented but from all my friends who have worked with him have said, he need to put his ego in check.

Updated On: 12/11/08 at 05:44 AM

#8

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Posted: 12/11/08 at 8:55am

I think he'll take Featured Actor this year.

I think and hope...

#9

re: 'Tony-winner Raul Esparza'

Posted: 12/11/08 at 9:00am

The Company DVD extra feature where the first thing he presents is his tony noms and pauses as if he's about to win for Company spring to mind.

Wait, which special feature is this? Granted, I've only ever watched those interviews once, but I don't remember this at all.

Anyway, yeah, this isn't the first time that print error's been made. I've seen a handful over the past year or so.

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#10

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Posted: 12/11/08 at 9:40am

I think he'll take Featured Actor this year.

He is above the title, and the producers kept him there.

The show has already been ruled upon.

The two men are up for Leading Actor.

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#11

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Posted: 12/11/08 at 10:30am

Yeah, he was really disappointed about the COMPANY snub, too. But he's kept that kind of thing in check lately. I don't think he gets that bitter over awards anymore.

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#12

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Posted: 12/11/08 at 1:04pm

BobbyBubby, I don't think it was an ad, but the phrase ended up in a press release when Elisabeth Moss did some interviews. I remember seeing it several times in relation to her interview. (Google the phrase in quotes and you'll get a lot of hits).

So it was either an innocent typo, or a wishful-thinking typo, or an attempt at subliminal advertising....

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#13

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Posted: 12/11/08 at 1:14pm

I read it yesterday and sent an e-mail to the person who wrote the piece with the correction. She hasn't corrected it.

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#14

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Posted: 12/11/08 at 5:05pm

Foster, aren't those rulings done several times? Or does each show only have one opportunity for petitioning? I thought the producers had several opportunities; I didn't realize if it wasn't stated at the same time as Moss' ruling that the categories would stay per the billing. I'm surprised; I really thought they'd put Raul into featured.

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#15

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Posted: 12/11/08 at 5:25pm

Maybe he won himself a different Tony.

#16

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Posted: 12/11/08 at 5:37pm

Petitioning for consideration in a different category has to be done within two weeks after opening.

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#17

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Posted: 12/12/08 at 12:24am

Em, the Tony committee meets several times to decide these things, but they discuss a different group of shows each time. If they already ruled on Speed-the-Plow, that's it.

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#18

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Posted: 12/12/08 at 3:17pm

Wishful thinking, indeed. Raul is so exciting and dynamic on stage. Love that man!

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Posted: 12/12/08 at 3:28pm

They changed the article.... now it just says "Broadway actor"

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#20

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Posted: 12/12/08 at 3:29pm

Heh. They couldn't have come up with something somewhere in between wishfully-extreme praise and completely bland?

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#21

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Posted: 12/12/08 at 3:34pm

Tony nominee would have been nice.

#22

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Posted: 12/12/08 at 3:52pm

"three-time-Tony-nominee-who-should-have-won-two-years-ago-but-was-robbed Raúl Esparza"

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There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last. ~ Rent

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#23

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Posted: 12/12/08 at 3:54pm

I like that, too, yero - but I don't want it attributed to Esparza's "ego."

#24

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Posted: 12/12/08 at 4:02pm

I heard Patti LuPone walked out when she didn't win a Tony once, it's not like he is the 'biggest' ego on stage right now..

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#25

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Posted: 12/12/08 at 4:10pm

Why the quotation marks? I adore Raul to pieces, personally and professionally, but there's no need to glorify him so much that we deny he's got quite an ego. He's an actor. It's part of the job description -- comes with the territory.

And saying he was robbed couldn't exactly be attributed to his ego or projected sense of entitlement; how is that a reflection on what he thinks? It'd be a reflection of the writer's opinion only.

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Updated On: 12/12/08 at 04:10 PM