Variety cans Rooney
Variety cans Rooney
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#1Variety cans Rooney
Posted: 3/8/10 at 6:32pm
Another theater critic has lost his job: this time, the venerable David Rooney of Variety.
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/variety-lets-two-of-its-top-critics-go/?src=twt&twt=mediadecodernyt
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#2Variety cans Rooney
Posted: 3/8/10 at 6:38pm
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
Upland
Stand-by Joined: 1/18/10
#3Variety cans Rooney
Posted: 3/9/10 at 1:04amThey fired their lead film critic, Todd McCarthy too. And so goes the continue disappearance of the press.
#4Variety cans Rooney
Posted: 3/9/10 at 1:55amI picked up a copy of Variety a few weeks ago. It had gotten too expensive ($12 an issue) to buy regularly. I was shocked at how skimpy this last issue had become. What used to be 60 - 80 pages is now a scant 24. I used to always pick up the issue that came out the first week of June for the seasonal stats of Broadway hits and flops but they stopped publishing that chart.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
#5Variety cans Rooney
Posted: 3/9/10 at 1:56am
The adage "everyone's a critic..." has never been more true. In the internet age, it's so easy to find opinion. While reviews are a nice "this professional likes/loathes it" -- I, personally, go right here to the BWW boards to read up on opinions. Any user who posts intelligent thoughts, written maturely, I pay attention to. And it often influences the priority of my "shows to see" list.
While the fact that these men lost their jobs is tragic, especially the tradition of VARIETY having these longtime reviewers, their "function" in today's society is truly less relevant, sorry to say.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
#6Variety cans Rooney
Posted: 3/9/10 at 1:59amVery wise words CapnHook
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
#7Variety cans Rooney
Posted: 3/9/10 at 2:16amDiva - thank you for the biggest laugh I have had tonight. :)
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
#8Variety cans Rooney
Posted: 3/9/10 at 4:05pm
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
Brick
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/06
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