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#1bad celebrity behavior
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.

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LizzieCurry
#2bad celebrity behavior
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/


"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt

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SNAFU
#3bad celebrity behavior
Posted: 12/21/15 at 11:02am

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

 

 


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

smidge
#4bad celebrity behavior
Posted: 12/21/15 at 11:22am

"Jane" wouldn't apologize 

rjm516
#5bad celebrity behavior
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.

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Mr Roxy
#6bad celebrity behavior
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.


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imeldasturn
#7bad celebrity behavior
Posted: 12/21/15 at 12:15pm

Didn't Madonna text all the way through Hamilton?

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LizzieCurry
#8bad celebrity behavior
Posted: 12/21/15 at 12:18pm

Yep!

 

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


"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt

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uncageg
#9bad celebrity behavior
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.


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

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Jane2
#10bad celebrity behavior
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. 


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FindingNamo
#11bad celebrity behavior
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".


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smidge
#12bad celebrity behavior
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

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tazber
#13bad celebrity behavior
Posted: 12/21/15 at 4:59pm

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


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Mr Roxy
#14bad celebrity behavior
Posted: 12/21/15 at 5:12pm

Does anyone still wear a hat?


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hork
#15bad celebrity behavior
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.

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Mr Roxy
#16bad celebrity behavior
Posted: 12/21/15 at 8:59pm

Touche


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c0113g3b0y
#17bad celebrity behavior
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


The thing is, besides being an utter toad of a human being, Riedel usually has the least knowledge of the topic in the room. He doesn't usually understand the content or approach of a show, and is always completely and unfailingly socially ignorant, which makes it really infuriating when Susan can't get a word in edgewise. A definitive mansplainer; it's always painful when he has female guests. I watch the show sporadically when I really want to see a guest, because it's the only theatre talkshow we have, but it would be so much better without this hateful clown in a dadcoat. (thanks ScaryWarhol)

c0113g3b0y
#18bad celebrity behavior
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


The thing is, besides being an utter toad of a human being, Riedel usually has the least knowledge of the topic in the room. He doesn't usually understand the content or approach of a show, and is always completely and unfailingly socially ignorant, which makes it really infuriating when Susan can't get a word in edgewise. A definitive mansplainer; it's always painful when he has female guests. I watch the show sporadically when I really want to see a guest, because it's the only theatre talkshow we have, but it would be so much better without this hateful clown in a dadcoat. (thanks ScaryWarhol)

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dramamama611
#19bad celebrity behavior
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

 

"

 

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.

 


If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

smidge
#20bad celebrity behavior
Posted: 12/22/15 at 3:24pm

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


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