100 percent off topic, but someone said E-Cigarettes were not deadly if not misused. False. While they drastically reduce health risks for regular smokers they also are responsible for turning millions of kids into lifelong nicotine addicts and at some point those kids will simplify things by switching to regular cigarettes.
It's a worthwhile idea and may very well become widespread. Although the easiest way to get around it - and I'm sure it's being done now - is to simply have two phones (everyone has an old one) and hand that one over to be locked. There's also unknown problems that may crop up in the future. For example who ever thought electronic cigarettes would turn deadly?
I never liked the fact that the show changed the story concept from a nationwide live soap opera to a theatrical production. So when Dorothy did her big reveal at the end it was just to a few hundred people. So my question to anyone who saw it on stage is this: In the film when the producer asks the cameraman "How far can you pull back to make her look good?" and the cameraman replied "How about Philadelphia?" how was it translated on stage or was it thrown out completely?
I assume it was flash because the scene was darkly lit. There is no way to monetize such a photo because any publication that used it would be doubly sued. Just someone's sadistic pleasure is all I can think.
I'd never have seen this in any case. Now The West Side Waltz with other characters on stage - that is, an actual play - might have been very interesting.
I'm fairly certain that in a few years time Spielberg's redo of West Side Story will be thought of in the same way as Glenn Close in South Pacific and Mathew Broderick in The Music Man.
The music and lyrics seem excellent (from small sample here) If it needs a new book might be worthwhile. Legs Diamond was a 30's gangster who was famous for continuously getting shot but never dying. (True) And Hugh Jackman would seem to be a perfect fit for him.
I was once on line with Sylvia Miles at Emigrant Savings Bank. Her cowboy boots got my attention. I remember saying something complimentary about the column she wrote in one of the local newspapers. But if I hadn't thought of that I would have kept my mouth shut. I don't know what anyone could shout of merit at a celeb running the gauntlet at a stage door except I'm sorry you have to go through this.
I think at this point there is no answer, or at least not one at would work in the real world. Talking about "offenders" many of them are just people - many of them the elderly - who just don't understand the difference between turning off your phone and POWERING OFF your phone. As for the truly bad folks today you can fit a camera lens inside your top shirt button. And tomorrow, who knows? No answer.
To those (very many) who will attempt to enter the theatre while concealing their phones I assume the male ushers will be frisking the male patrons and the female ushers will be frisking the female patrons.
Whenever I hear of a movie being adapted as a musical for Broadway, like every week, and the movie rings a bell I will retrieve it on the internet, watch it and that will be the end of it for me. (Unless I hear Cole Porter will be doing the Broadway score)
As I mentioned before I wonder how many tickets must be sold on a daily basis to pay for the cars and limos the producers must provide for the actors to get them away from the theater unharassed.
