Posted
5:09 PM
by Gene
ANOTHER word for the NEWS HACKS' DICTIONARY:
SUBVERSIVE. Especially in this third-rate-hack-named-DINITIA context:
But if the series has one major theme, it's that the Broadway musical has always been subversive, ahead of its time in form and subject matter. Think of the "Daily Show" with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central, where cultural norms and political foibles can be mercilessly mocked without the censure of the Hayes Committee, which came to rule Hollywood.
In short, Cohan, Berlin, Kern, Hammerstein, the Gershwins, Rodgers, Hart, Porter, Arlen, Schwartz, Dietz, Loesser, Lerner, Loewe et al were nothing more than glorified political stink-raising HACKS. Oh and paper of JAYSON and the DURANTY (and we don't mean
JIMMY, himself a great musical star with a greater nose), it was the
HAYS OFFICE, not the "Hayes Committee." Even IF it sounds better to PINCH.