Calling Lea Michele a Broadway Veteran is 'almost', >almost< as bad, as calling 'Paul Canaan' (Paul who?) a veteran of the Broadway stage, in "Legally Blonde The Musical: The search for Elle Woods"/
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
It was going to be, until I realized that I went to a lot of trouble last year with the Christmas cards and I got few in kind and even fewer acknowledgments of the one I sent (maybe I offended with my sacrilegious image).
I should send one out and again for the next three years so that I may call him a Christmas card veteran.
Yeah the art of the Christmas Card is a lost art. I used to get ions of cards, but nowadays I get a few charities begging and a couple photocards of people's kids. What once was a sumptuous feast...
There is a great free online service called Smilebox. I tossed a few pics of Dan & the cat into the program and got an e-mailable slide show with music & animation that made people think I'm really creative. I got way more response from that and it didn't cost me a penny.
I have never sent Christmas cards. You forget one name and there is HELL TO PAY. Screw that. I'll send an e-card to my closest friends and family and it is quite sufficient.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
I don't care if you hate the show, but at least be sensible about it. Plenty of deserving nominees are overlooked in favor of popular hits every year; immediately leaping to the Pia Zadora comparison is just absurd.
But the older, chubbier, queenier half of the gay couple on MF? Oh man. I cringe with embarrassment and recognition very time he swishes on. Don't they always try to make it seem like he's the butcher of the two? Like the episode when he shows up to the father's house in Ohio State facepaint for the game.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never
knowing how
TV still has a problem with trying to make femme vs butch characters, gay or lesbian. You know a lesbian is supposed to be butch on tv if she has short hair.