bad celebrity behavior

[fb1123]

Posted: 12/21/15 at 10:25am

Last week, during a performance of the new Broadway hit The Color Purple,capital-D Diva Aretha Franklin (and her purse) broke just about every rule you’re asked to follow in the announcements before a Broadway performance—and that’s probably because she showed up too late to hear them.

Writes Page Six, in one of my favorite stories of 2015:

According to a witness, Franklin showed up late to a performance at the Jacobs Theatre, took up six seats around her and began holding her phone in the air to snap photos of the show — and that was all before intermission!

According to Brandon Voss, a writer who attended the same performance—you know, the one where Aretha ran into James Earl Jones—an “older” woman in the audience eventually began “gesturing wildly for her to put down the phone,” and told one of Franklin’s four bodyguards that “it wasn’t allowed.” When she realized the woman she was complaining about was Aretha Franklin, she apologized for making such a ridiculous request. 

There is no better confirmation of someone’s unimpeachable status as a living legend than a commoner’s apology for being annoyed. It’s like apologizing to Meryl Streep for being in her way after she knowingly cut in front of you in a bathroom line.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 12/21/15 at 10:41am

Here's the Page Six link if anyone is curious: http://pagesix.com/2015/12/20/aretha-franklin-is-totally-allowed-to-be-an-obnoxious-theatergoer/

[SNAFU]

Posted: 12/21/15 at 11:02am

That's racist she was merely engaged! Bet the older white woman was "Jane".

 

 

Updated On: 12/21/15 at 11:02 AM

[smidge]

Posted: 12/21/15 at 11:22am

"Jane" wouldn't apologize 

[rjm516]

Posted: 12/21/15 at 12:01pm

I can't wait to see this show and I'm simultaneously dreading it. Might have to take a sedative beforehand. The argument theatres have against photography is based on copyright law, not annoyance. So if someone gets a pass, that invalidates the entire argument for everyone else and tells people that it IS just about manners, so if you don't have them it's NBD.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/21/15 at 12:08pm

No one should be above the law no matter what the celebrity status is

 

If she is given a pass, you cannot complain against a mere mortal breaking the rules. They apply to all or apply to none.

[imeldasturn]

Posted: 12/21/15 at 12:15pm

Didn't Madonna text all the way through Hamilton?

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 12/21/15 at 12:18pm

Yep!

 

http://deadline.com/2015/04/hamilton-star-madonna-texting-1201412789/

[uncageg]

Posted: 12/21/15 at 12:37pm

Thank goodness it wasn't me who complained. Ms Franklin would have gotten no apology from me. In the past I made the wife of a very well known tv/movie star stop filmimg a show and I did it right in front of  him. Wrong is wrong I don't care who you are.

Updated On: 12/21/15 at 12:37 PM

[Jane2]

Posted: 12/21/15 at 1:35pm

She takes "diva" to a new, all-time low. 

 

I saw her recently on a talk show and then she sang. Not one note was on pitch. Cringeworthy. 

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 12/21/15 at 1:57pm

She's the worst.  There's quite a story about how she mistreats people in Sam Harris's excellent book, "Ham".

[smidge]

Posted: 12/21/15 at 3:46pm

Thanks Namo, for reminding me of the Sam Harris book. Had forgotten to get it until now.As for Aretha, she never conveyed the warm fuzzies so this behavior is no surprise.  Nobody should be exempt from bad behavior in the theatre.  Especially from someone who should know better and who would probably go ballistic if it occured at her concert

[tazber]

Posted: 12/21/15 at 4:59pm

The only thing that really matters is: was she wearing the hat?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/21/15 at 5:12pm

Does anyone still wear a hat?

[hork]

Posted: 12/21/15 at 8:50pm

Looks like R-E-S-P-E-C-T means nothing to her, so that answers that question.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/21/15 at 8:59pm

Touche

[c0113g3b0y]

Posted: 12/21/15 at 10:24pm

I can't decide which is worse - her disgusting lack of theatre etiquette or her mangling / butchering of I Dreamed  A Dream

[c0113g3b0y]

Posted: 12/21/15 at 10:24pm

I can't decide which is worse - her disgusting lack of theatre etiquette or her mangling / butchering of I Dreamed  A Dream

[dramamama611]

Posted: 12/22/15 at 3:18pm

smidge said: "Thanks Namo, for reminding me of the Sam Harris book. Had forgotten to get it until now.As for Aretha, she never conveyed the warm fuzzies so this behavior is no surprise.  Nobody should be exempt from bad behavior in the theatre.  Especially from someone who should know better and who would probably go ballistic if it occured at her concert

 

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People take pictures and video ALL THE TIME at concerts.   More important than enjoying a concert is making sure you DOCUMENT the experience so everyone can know how cool you are.

 

[smidge]

Posted: 12/22/15 at 3:24pm

Truth.  God forbid you actually watch and enjoy a concert rather than recording it