“One judge, Piers Morgan, confirmed that she had become so ‘distraught’ at negative media headlines this week that she almost quit the ITV show.”
Tag: 05.29.09
Tony Kushner Begs Off Reviews For New Play; Guthrie Theatre Caught In Middle
“The perception that the Guthrie may have mishandled the rollout of a show by one of America’s foremost playwrights has irked some of the nation’s most-important critics, whom the theater had encouraged to travel to Minneapolis in June to see Kushner’s latest effort.”
Lars Von Trier Explains His Bad Self
“There is no denying that von Trier is a provocateur. He describes the device as ‘a tool’. Saying he’s the best director, making challenging films, creating a furore has been his way of getting what are essentially small-budget films from Denmark noticed.” Of his alleged misogyny, he says, “I think I’ve always been the female characters in all my films, you know, the men tend to just be stupid.”
Britain’s Most Fearsome Composer On Turning 75
“‘It doesn’t mean anything,’ he says, in the flat Lancashire burr that is variously used to kill off a timorous suggestion stone dead or to give a grudging answer. ‘I still feel like I’m the same thing. I started life with an idea in my head about music and I still feel I’m in that position.'”
Taking The Kids To See Hair
“Perhaps I shouldn’t draw sweeping conclusions about my kids’ cultural tastes based on the fact that they seemed distinctly more captivated by Shrek and Fiona’s brazen flatulence face-off in Shrek than by Tony and Maria’s clandestine fire-escape clutch in West Side Story.” Robin Pogrebin and her two preteens go on a seven-show Broadway bender. (Yes, they saw Hair.)