THE NEWS HACK'S CREED:
I know more than you.
I make lots more money than you.
I'm smarter than you.
I'm sexier than you.
I appear on TV all the time.
I work ten minutes a day.
I rule the universe.
I'm going to live forever.
You are an idiot.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2:
A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3:
I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity.
--JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4:
News isn't news when we don't report it.
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Eve Ensler, best known for her much-performed The Vagina Monologues, will make her Broadway debut this fall in The Good Body.
The new play, written and performed by Ensler, will begin previews Oct. 22 at the Booth Theatre with an official opening set for Nov. 15. The limited 12-week engagement will run through Jan. 16, 2005. Peter Askin directs.
In The Good Body, Ensler, according to production notes, "turns her unique eye to the rest of the female form. Whether undergoing Botox injections or living beneath burkhas, women of all cultures and backgrounds feel compelled to change the way they look in order to fit in, to be accepted, to be 'good.' Merging these cross-cultural explorations with her own personal journey to come to terms with her 'less-than-flat, post-40s stomach.'" Ensler's new work was presented at San Francisco's ACT earlier this summer.
This may be the first play to get raves from those PAPER OF RECORD fools Ben Brantley and THE GLIBERAL! Which raises the question: Which one is the REAL theater reviewer?
And here's a TANTRUM starting Saturday:
The Passion of George W. Bush follows "our hero from youth to adulthood, from drunkard to president, and watch as he tirelessly searches for how to be a 'good man,'" librettists John Herin and Adam B. Mathias told Playbill On-Line about their stagework. "It's a musical about honesty, humility, vigilance and the cost of virtue."
With characters from the current administration, the tale of one man spreading "his father's gospel across the land" was borne out of reaction to the depressing news of "war in Iraq, a lousy economy, terrorist threats," said the duo. "We decided we could either sit around and gripe about the state of the nation, or we could find some way to enter the political debate, add our opinion, and, at the same time, make people laugh."
TRANSLATION: You could sit around and gripe, or you can get the fatuous second-stringer Bruce "URINETOWN" Weber to praise your sitting around and griping! (Don't forget to call it FRINGE!)