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[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 6/9/10 at 12:25pm

Hello Message Board World!

Has this thread been on CNN yet?

[tazber]

Posted: 6/9/10 at 12:28pm

I'm going to make a bold statement here:

This thread has just surpassed the "deer thread" on the top 10 list of all time BWW craziness.

[Elphaba3]

Posted: 6/9/10 at 12:28pm

Oy gevalt, this is too confusing. If isntitromantic is telling the truth, I'd be interested in reading that interview with Alice.

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 6/9/10 at 12:29pm

Taz, it's Sweeps Week. We had to raise the bar.

[Calvin]

Posted: 6/9/10 at 12:30pm

BTW Jason, it's unfazed. I mention it only because you said earlier that you are a perfectionist.

Honestly, does this even have anything to do with Alice Ripley anymore? Especially considering, in one of the silliest plot twists I've ever seen -- and I saw "The Village"! -- that the whole protest was a ruse in the first place, and not one person was actually ever going to attend it? Even the people who read it on Towleroad yesterday probably have already forgotten about it. My interjection of Tempestt Bledsoe was not as random as it seemed, in my usual obtusely cryptic style.

The discussion of what sort of grievances we will overlook in people we respect/admire/obsess over, however...it's an interesting one.

(eta, btw jordan, i loved your talk show! it was just a bad year to start one) Updated On: 6/9/10 at 12:30 PM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 6/9/10 at 12:31pm

The discussion of what sort of grievances we will overlook in people we respect/admire/obsess over, however...it's an interesting one.

Ding ding ding.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 6/9/10 at 12:35pm

I am sure Alice was thrilled about hearing the plot twist! Why it must have made it all better! If the claim of the plot twist is true, it shows real scumbaggery in MHO. Kind of like screaming FIRE in a movie theatre.


eta: Feel free to quote me isntitromantic.

Updated On: 6/9/10 at 12:35 PM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 6/9/10 at 12:36pm

I expect her to talk about it on Facebook.

[MotorTink]

Posted: 6/9/10 at 12:36pm

SNAFU - I totally agree with you.

[Tom1071]

Posted: 6/9/10 at 12:36pm

"I'm going to make a bold statement here:

This thread has just surpassed the "deer thread" on the top 10 list of all time BWW craziness."

Even the RUSH DRAMA thread of 2008?



RUSH DRAMA Updated On: 6/9/10 at 12:36 PM

[tazber]

Posted: 6/9/10 at 12:38pm

I don't think anyone was going to attend it had it been real anyway Calvin.


Of course Jason will assume that there would have been masses there as this is nothing more than a witch hunt.

[Calvin]

Posted: 6/9/10 at 12:39pm

Lol -- the strike threads, as a whole, had to make the top 10.

[MotorTink]

Posted: 6/9/10 at 12:40pm

but it could never surpass the bra thread

[tazber]

Posted: 6/9/10 at 12:41pm

Oh yea, the strike threads are certianly classic, and The Rush Thread, and the smoking outside the theater in costume thread.

But none of those got picked up by EW!

Updated On: 6/9/10 at 12:41 PM

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 6/9/10 at 12:41pm

I love you, Taz.

No. Nothing beats deer. Ever. There's deer...and then there's everything else. Close second, though!!

Queerty, the blog I go to often just to get pissed off, posted about it today seemed to think this was a serious call to arms to picket. Even IF the original post was intended that way, it would only take about four posts to realize that simply wasn't going to happen. That didn't stop Queerty from chastising us about the protest that would never happen. Whatever. They reported Zachary Quinto was to play Belize in the ANGELS revival.

I will, however, picket to get Ms. Ripley to show her tits again on stage. Did I mention I loved her in ROCKY HORROR?

[chellie]

Posted: 6/9/10 at 12:42pm

Because Jason keeps talking about a witch hunt, I just want to clarify a few things.

Very few people, if anyone were classifying Ripley as a homophobe. The anger was over the use of an hurtful word in an inappropriate circumstance by someone in the public eye. She apologized. Many, if not all, got over it after she (rightfully) apologized. Show me those who created a "witch hunt" because I have only seen anger over the use of a term.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 6/9/10 at 12:43pm

I liked her in Side Show, too. And I her albums she made with Emily Skinner. I also have her solo album.

[Tom1071]

Posted: 6/9/10 at 12:44pm

taz-

Can you link deer thread here? I missed that one.
Updated On: 6/9/10 at 12:44 PM

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 6/9/10 at 12:46pm

Wait...Alice Ripley is a broadway legend now?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/9/10 at 12:46pm

they are afraid of being attacked by the tiny group of loons who lurk boards like these

"Look! Look! Oh, look! I've spotted a LOON! The LOONS! The LOONS! They're so lovely!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWCZ2mqGfIE

[JustAGuy]

Posted: 6/9/10 at 12:51pm

Now that she's apologized, I totally forgive Alice for her use of the word FAG. But,I'm not so sure I can forgive her for (inadvertently) bringing us Jason Bennett.

Updated On: 6/9/10 at 12:51 PM

[Calvin]

Posted: 6/9/10 at 12:52pm

I wanna be Shirley!

[tazber]

Posted: 6/9/10 at 12:53pm

Oh Tom, that was deleted a log time ago. I can't even begin to describe the insanity.

In a nutshell, a poster's bf hit a deer with his car. So, said poster comes on here and starts freaking out. Bear in mind the bf was fine, the car a little damaged, and the deer killed.

So on it goes, "my poor bf....blah blah blah" and finally someone says, "um, I'm glad you're bf is fine, but don't you feel bad about the deer?"

That's the set up. What transpired consisted of enough crazy to fill Bellvue seven times over. There were obscene PMs shared in public, rants, tirades, general madness.

Then the dead deer's bf (a poster known as AngryDeer - lol!) shows up and everything gets kicked up another level.

It got so bad, and I mean this literally, that all posters were actually banned from posting the word "deer". As if it was an explicative. Really.

We had to develop a code word if we ever wanted to mention anything that had to do with the animal, even in a completely different context.

Truly one for the books.

In fact, I'm not even sure if this post of mine will be deleted or not all these years later.

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 6/9/10 at 12:53pm

"Now that she's apologized, I totally forgive Alice for her use of the word FAG. But,I'm not so sure I can forgive her for (inadvertently)bringing us Jason Bennett."

[Jason Bennett]

Posted: 6/9/10 at 1:00pm

Erik, for the record, I was not referring to Alice Ripley as a Broadway Legend. And I'll not explain to whom I was referring, because I'm not interested in them being attacked any more. In fact, it's pretty clear at this point that anyone I care about, know, or respect should not be subjected to the kinds of reactions some people on here have to professional performers or others in the entertainment world.