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re: Rue
TheBoyfromChi
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#25re: Rue
Posted: 8/18/05 at 11:29pm
What bothers me is that people always complain about the state of Broadway today, but when an actor or actress who happens to actually be in a show on Broadway makes a similar comment, they are considered snobs. Get over it people. She can say what she wants.
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Updated On: 8/18/05 at 11:29 PM
Kringas
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#26re: Rue
Posted: 8/18/05 at 11:30pmA few years back, when Bea's show rolled into town, I noticed during it she mentioned all the Golden Girls but Betty White, so I just assumed that's where the tension was. Who knows? It's gonna be the first question I ask of the Lord when I make it through the pearly gates.
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JMVR
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#27re: Rue
Posted: 8/19/05 at 12:30am
I also felt that she looks down on musical theater in general. She is free to think what she wants, and as has been posted "work is work" but I just thought it was kind of stupid to have been in Nunsense and Nunsense II (even out on VHS and DVD) and now in Wicked and flat out come across as a desperate actress who takes whatever comes her way and doesn't even have the good taste to be discreet about her dislike for the genre which has been her meal ticket lately.
My perception was that she thinks of herself as a first-rate dramatic actress who deserves Albee, Mamet et al to write great plays for her an wouldn't you know it? She gets stuck in one of the biggest hits on Broadway today and has fans cheering for her every night. Bitter, bitter, bitter. I was so happy to have seen her a few weeks ago and love Golden Girls, but she's no Uta Hagen and she should get off her high horse.
I thought her comments on Bea also reek of bitterness. I don't recall Bea dissing her in her ill-fated show or saying bad things about her to the press.
COuld some one ellaborate on the feuds on the set of Golden Girls?
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#29re: Rue
Posted: 8/19/05 at 12:55amRue was basically saying she hates Wicked in that interview...it's hilarious.
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Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#32re: Rue
Posted: 8/19/05 at 1:18am
"Of course Tex Ritter [singing-cowboy movie star of "B" westerns in the '30s and '40s] was his dad, and he was always kind of disturbed by that. He wouldn't talk about that much."
This is the ONLY statment that caught my eye and makes me want to "google for more". And so I shall.
Rue just seemed to be ackowledging that Wicked is one of the more "fun" shows to be in and she prefers the drama of "straight drama". I wouldn't start thinking she hates musicals and singing and winged monkeys and all that.
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#36re: Rue
Posted: 8/19/05 at 2:54amARGH! i would hate to be that reporter! in all of her answers, she might as well just have said "I am Rue McClanahan." I mean come on, she should be fired from the job for saying all of that. See how much she appreciates broadway from the streets. Is that the reason she SPEAKS all of her singing parts? because she is protesting? pish. i dont like her.
#38re: Rue
Posted: 8/19/05 at 3:53am
"Is that the reason she SPEAKS all of her singing parts? because she is protesting? pish. i dont like her."
haha, love it.
As for the interview, there was kind of a hint of primadonna, snobbishness. The way she spoke just bothered me, like she knew she was hot sh!t, and everyone else should know she's hot sh!t. Sorry, but it's gonna take more than The Golden Girls to impress me, Ruey.
As for, "In those days, there were plays on Broadway. You know, drama. Plays without music. You know the old concept of "plays." Which is what I love. Cause a play allows you to explore the character. A musical is just very shallow and, you know, it's mostly there for the music. You don't really get to play characters and scenes, it's all sketches, little bits between songs."
Shove it Rue. I don't even think she knows what the hell she's talking about. There are too many points to make just from that one little paragraph o' ignorance.
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grizzabella
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/05
#39re: Rue
Posted: 8/19/05 at 10:47am
Rue's interview was - unusual - to say the least. Perhaps her condescending tone comes from the fact that her reviews in Wicked have been less than stellar. Regardless, she may have been caught on an off-day, or when she was preoccupied with something else,(and which of us hasn't complained about our jobs, though we don't do it in the press!) but her tone seems to demonstrate a distinct lack of manners to her colleagues, past and present.
You're probably right in your assessment, Schned28, work is work. I got that impression, too.
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Mo3
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#40re: Rue
Posted: 8/19/05 at 10:52am
Interesting discussion, this. As far as the Golden Girls feuding, I have no idea, but Rue and Bea go back many years. I don't imagine Bea Arthur is easy to work with so I would imagine there was occasional tension. I know I saw a photo of Bea and Rue together when Bea did her one-woman show. It's hard because you don't know how Rue said "she hasn't even acknowledged..." - she could have been kidding or getting a friendly jab at Bea for not having come to see her in the show. I also know that Betty White is the one that got Bea interested in animal rights projects. Regarding the horror stories from the reunion show, what could the horror stories have been since they never appeared together.
Regarding Rue's putting down musical theater, those statements seem unfortunate but I don't think they're unusual for people who usually do "straight" theater. She comes from straight theater originally and I think as an actress, it probably always looked to her and to her friends that there were always more opportunities for singers. I am basing that on many conversations I had with my own actor friends when I was in theater. I had one friend who had a great voice and did a lot of musicals, but she was a heavy duty actress and preferred plays.
#41re: Rue
Posted: 8/19/05 at 11:14amI think she was a little upset that Bea didn't do anything special for her being in WICKED, the only other thing that bothered me was the "I don't need advice." I saw her and enjoyed her, but she needed some advice. I saw her a week or so into her run, I hope she improved.
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FindingNamo
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#42re: Rue
Posted: 8/19/05 at 11:36am
Bea is obviously not at all well, if you saw her on the Pamela Anderson roast. She was a good sport, however, with all of the comics who said she was a man and that she has a penis.
And speaking of good sports, clearly the Wiclits who obsessively post here are not. They obviously can't face the fact that their show (the one that speaks to them as 14-20 year old gay boys who see the show with their moms and wish they could tell their moms that, like Elphie, they're "different" too) isn't very good and can't hold the interest of the actors who perform in it.
I notice nobody's saying Michelle should be fired for wishing she could gouge her own eyes out while performing that piece of crap.
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#43re: Rue
Posted: 8/19/05 at 11:58am
Seriously. The Wicklyns need to get over it.
Anyway - some of you need to read stories of a true bitchy LEGEND, read some Merman stories. Then come back here and read the Rue interview again. Rue is a great person, and with all the success she's had - she damn well can say what she wants about God (aka WICKED) and Broadway.
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Buscee
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#48re: Rue
Posted: 8/19/05 at 1:39pm
That was a strange interview, but I do recall reading somewhere that she was expecting her Golden Girl co-stars to come and see her in October. There all suppose to meet in NY To sign papers for the release of GOLDEN GIRLS DVD Season 3.
She did come across very snobbish. If she doesnt like it she should leave, but I have read in other acticles that she was enjoying it. GET OVER IT RUE
#49re: Rue
Posted: 8/19/05 at 1:52pm
I think all of you need to read this interview..
http://www.playbill.com/celebritybuzz/article/94143.html
She is such a sweet lady..
There is something about those Broadway.com interviews - HELL, I even thought Norbert had a bit of an attitude in his recent, but don't shoot me, I know some of you worship him.
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