Looks like Cindy Adams is a regular reader of this board
Looks like Cindy Adams is a regular reader of this board
AnnieBlack
Leading Actor Joined: 4/3/14
#1Looks like Cindy Adams is a regular reader of this board
Posted: 5/16/16 at 9:03pm
In tomorrow's column, she has a bunch of (mostly known) Broadway scoop, but goes into the fight at Fiddler!
Come on Cindy, show yourself!
http://pagesix.com/2016/05/16/london-makes-its-way-to-broadway/
#3Looks like Cindy Adams is a regular reader of this board
Posted: 5/16/16 at 9:46pm
...this is the most bizarrely-written thing I've ever seen.
willep
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/08
#4Looks like Cindy Adams is a regular reader of this board
Posted: 5/16/16 at 10:00pm
Right? I could hardly read it.
#5Looks like Cindy Adams is a regular reader of this board
Posted: 5/16/16 at 10:29pm
Was this put through Google translate several times before print?
10086sunset
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/16
#6Looks like Cindy Adams is a regular reader of this board
Posted: 5/16/16 at 10:41pm
She's been on a real Broadway kick lately.
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#7Looks like Cindy Adams is a regular reader of this board
Posted: 5/16/16 at 10:49pm
Yeah that was tough to read. Don't think I'll be an avid reader.
One man show about the Amazon? Hard pass.'
#8Looks like Cindy Adams is a regular reader of this board
Posted: 5/16/16 at 10:53pm
We could test this theory by posting "Audra Soils Herself During Tap Number" and see if Cundy prints it.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#9Looks like Cindy Adams is a regular reader of this board
Posted: 5/17/16 at 12:30am
willep said: "Right? I could hardly read it.
"Btw, she is 84
"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new."
Sunday in the Park with George
#10Looks like Cindy Adams is a regular reader of this board
Posted: 5/17/16 at 12:54am
literally, did no one look at that before it was posted? that was painful to read.
"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."
willep
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/08
#12Looks like Cindy Adams is a regular reader of this board
Posted: 5/17/16 at 7:54am
Robbie2 said: "willep said: "Right? I could hardly read it.
"Btw, she is 84"
Ok...Your point? There are plenty of people older than that who can write cohesively.
#13Looks like Cindy Adams is a regular reader of this board
Posted: 5/17/16 at 7:59am
Am I missing something? The article seems fine to me, and I read it without any confusion.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#14Looks like Cindy Adams is a regular reader of this board
Posted: 5/17/16 at 8:15am
That has always been Cindy Adams style of writing. If you think that was difficult to read you should have been around when Walt Winchell was writing.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#15Looks like Cindy Adams is a regular reader of this board
Posted: 5/17/16 at 8:16am
Just a sampling...
Kagan’s Internet blast delivered $2 mil in sales.
What is she referring to, though? A massive internet campaign for Natasha Pierre? As if other shows don't do that?
And Steve Martin, who co-created “Bright Star,” now itches to be another thittir bright star.
Why did she spell "theatre" that way? To affect an accent?
Yahoo without Katie Couric? It’ll attract only yo-yos. With her, it’s hoo-hahs.
Nothing wrong here; it's just dumb.
has front cover quotes from the Denzel Washingtons, whom he’s counseled.
What? The quotes are from Denzel and his wife.
So it's not that it's exactly a total mess, but her writing is stilted, affects a slang that seems to live only in her head, and chops off a lot of a/an/the articles.
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
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Posted: 5/17/16 at 8:19am
Cindy writes in that old-school "ticker tape" "telegram" style of fast-headline reporting. It's even before her time, when Walter Winchell, Louella Parsons, and Hedda Hopper were churning out "news flashes" in that economical way of leaving out verbs, etc.
It's antiquated. Not funny or clever.
Just odd.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#17Looks like Cindy Adams is a regular reader of this board
Posted: 5/17/16 at 8:23am
If someone on this beat feels the need to be retro, can't they write like Woodward and Bernstein instead?
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
Huss417
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#18Looks like Cindy Adams is a regular reader of this board
Posted: 5/17/16 at 8:57am
She also used to talk the way her column reads on Live at Five back in the day.
"I hope your Fanny is bigger than my Peter."
Mary Martin to Ezio Pinza opening night of Fanny.
John Adams
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/13
#19Looks like Cindy Adams is a regular reader of this board
Posted: 5/17/16 at 9:06am
LizzieCurry said: "Just a sampling...
Kagan’s Internet blast delivered $2 mil in sales.
What is she referring to, though? A massive internet campaign for Natasha Pierre? As if other shows don't do that?
Kagen's internet advertising was successful in yielding $2 million dollars in ticket sales
And Steve Martin, who co-created “Bright Star,” now itches to be another thittir bright star.
Why did she spell "theatre" that way? To affect an accent?
I think so.
Yahoo without Katie Couric? It’ll attract only yo-yos. With her, it’s hoo-hahs.
Nothing wrong here; it's just dumb.
has front cover quotes from the Denzel Washingtons, whom he’s counseled.
What? The quotes are from Denzel and his wife.
Pluralizing the name is a common way of expressing, "Mr. and Mrs. Denzel Washington". She could have also just written, "the Washingtons".
So it's not that it's exactly a total mess, but her writing is stilted, affects a slang that seems to live only in her head, and chops off a lot of a/an/the articles."
No argument there. best12bars explained it well.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#20Looks like Cindy Adams is a regular reader of this board
Posted: 5/17/16 at 10:00am
Can someone teach Cindy Adams how to write a sentence please?
Prisoner of 7th Ave
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#21Looks like Cindy Adams is a regular reader of this board
Posted: 5/17/16 at 10:20am
She had Glass Menagerie going into the Golden a couple of weeks ago. Now it's The Encounter. Maybe it'll be Come Fly with Me, the Sinatra/Tharp show she had to retract.
#22Looks like Cindy Adams is a regular reader of this board
Posted: 5/17/16 at 10:24am
It's a style choice. It's not "incorrect," and she doesn't need to be taught how to write a sentence. Whether or not you like this style is a different question. I think it's affected and weird for 2016, especially for something "hot of the press" today to be served up in a 1940s vernacular. I expect to hear the Benny Goodman Orchestra playing in the background as I read it.
I'm actually bored with most writers today. They're too heavily edited and come of sanitized, sounding all the same. I appreciate a stylized choice even if it "clunks" once in a while. At least it doesn't sound like the same person is writing everything published today.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#23Looks like Cindy Adams is a regular reader of this board
Posted: 5/17/16 at 11:06am
I had no trouble reading that as well. It's an antiquated style of writing. No one really writes that way anymore and that doesn't necessarily make it wrong.
#24Looks like Cindy Adams is a regular reader of this board
Posted: 5/17/16 at 11:39am
Does anyone really believe that Cindy Adams and Liz Smith still write their respective columns? They have underlings write them.
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Posted: 5/17/16 at 11:41am
RippedMan said: "One man show about the Amazon? Hard pass.'"
I agree about the terrible article but this show by Simon McBurney is actually supposed to be mind-blowing (audience members wear headphones and it involves binaural technology - 3D audio). Ben Brantley gave it a rave in London - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/27/theater/review-you-see-the-encounter-with-your-ears.html?_r=0
#26Looks like Cindy Adams is a regular reader of this board
Posted: 5/17/16 at 11:47am
GreenSharpie said: "RippedMan said: "One man show about the Amazon? Hard pass.'"
I agree about the terrible article but this show by Simon McBurney is actually supposed to be mind-blowing (audience members wear headphones and it involves binaural technology - 3D audio). Ben Brantley gave it a rave in London - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/27/theater/review-you-see-the-encounter-with-your-ears.html?_r=0 "
In fact, did she just break the news that it is coming to the Golden (where Eclipsed is right now)? I don't see any articles about this yet...
She wrote: "And, to join clogged 45th comes “The Encounter,” Simon McBurney’s one-man schlep up the Amazon, which sinks or swims at the Golden. At what venue did it premiere? Edinburgh Festival."
