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Sunday
Dec242017

The Greatest Show Tweet 

It's time for another roundup of amusing or provocative or pleasant brevities via twitter. Let's just jump in shall we with Bette Midler telling a funny truth as she winds down her Hello Dolly Broadway run (in mid January Bernadette Peters replaces her) 

More after the jump including The Greatest Showman, The Lost Boys, Lady Bird, Anne Bancroft and more... 

LADY BIRD

RANDOMNESS

 SUPER NEW YORK SPECIFIC BUT TRUE

 

 AND I THINK THESE GREATEST SHOWMAN TWEETS ARE INSTRUCTIVE BECAUSE LOOK HOW CONTRADICTORY THEY ARE. MUSICALS ARE ALWAYS A ROSCHARCH TEST

 

 

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Reader Comments (19)

Ehrlich, that idiot, having the audacity to use the gif I made.....

December 24, 2017 | Unregistered Commentersati

GASP. I made it to one of your tweet roundups. And for a LADY BIRD tweet! Honored.

Also GREATEST SHOWMAN is so interesting. I'm also VERY excited for it, but critics and general audiences seem to be lukewarm. Apparently people who DID see it this weekend have loved it, but then again those who would watch this moving on opening weekend are probably who the movie is made for. Anyways, my roomie is out of town and I have to wait for her to return next week until I get to see Hugh Jackman and Zac Efron sing and fall in love. Don't tell me I'm wrong.

December 24, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterRyan T.

You know why most film makers are liberal?
Yes, because they failed Basic Economics. All else is self-serving bias.
Merry Xmas, Y'all!

December 24, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterCarmen Sandiego

sati -- but gifs of movie scenes once they're online are everyone's (the studio being the owner actually). all you have to do is search giphy if you're looking for something and nobody ever has a clue who made the gif.

ryan -- i really enjoyed GREATEST SHOWMAN fwiw. The people who hate it seem to have a very strange concept of what it's supposed to be (like a truthful biopic for starters - musicals rarely if ever care about historical accuracy. it's not their purpose)

December 24, 2017 | Registered CommenterNATHANIEL R

Nathaniel - I think we have similar feelings about The Greatest Showman. I don't think some people understand what musicals are. So many complaints about lack of subtlety, historical inaccuracies, and it being too overstuffed with songs. We are talking about a musical. They are usually about as subtle as a car crash. As for the "too many songs" I was like "have you sat through a Broadway musical?"

December 24, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterBrian

Seriously people complain about too many songs in a musical?

December 24, 2017 | Unregistered Commenterjaragon

Glad to see some positivity about The Greatest Showman. I thought it was kind of a mess, but I had such a blast and some of the musical numbers were very well staged.

December 24, 2017 | Unregistered Commenterchasm301

The Langella book is full of bitchy comments about Anne.

December 24, 2017 | Unregistered Commentermarkgordonuk

Methinks Bancroft spurned Langella at some point.

December 24, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterMareko

A bit miffed about Bette's tweet. I love her, but there are plenty of problems out there and the sag award statuette is not one of them.

December 24, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterNnnnvg

Most film makers think they are liberal, not are liberal. There's a difference between one and the other. Less hypocrisy and arrogance next time. If *most* were liberal as they say or think, things would be easier for those who fight daily against all kind of prejudice in the film industry.

December 24, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterMelchiades

Nnnnvg: Midler's tweet was a JOKE, and a funny one. You're right that there are plenty of problems out there. It would be hard facing them if we lost our sense of humor.

December 24, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterDan H

Filmmakers are liberal -- neoliberal. Where my radicals at.

December 24, 2017 | Unregistered Commenterbeyaccount

About movies being too long: I re-watched "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" and I thought it was a "super-quick" movie... then I realised I'm not used to movies who are 90 minutes long anymore

December 24, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterEd

Bettle Midler is a savage

December 25, 2017 | Unregistered Commenterkris

Film makers, liberals - Oh, yeah! Sure! Everywhere. Except in Hollywood.

December 25, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterMelchiades

I love how sweeping generalizations are OK now when men are in question. Hypocrisy of the higher magnitude.
If only it was actually funny.

December 25, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterKokolo

Movies are definitely way too long, and I'm not saying that just because I'm about to watch THE SQUARE, which is two and a half hours long. What the hell?

Bette's tweet was a joke and a funny one. Kudos for using Paulson as the imagery. Never forget.

December 26, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterGlenn Dunks

Skipping it this year. Can’t stand the ‘cluelessness’ of everyone present...

December 27, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterTOM
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