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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Kate Baldwin and Graham Rowat, David Ogden Stiers (as the ex-general), Karen Morrow, Michael Gruber and Nadine Isenegger!!!!!
And here's even MORE EXCITING NEWS: this MAMMOTH POTENTIAL HIT's being done in THREE SEPARATE PRODUCTIONS! AND....
The acting company for the triple franchise, directed by tireless Walter Bobbie and choreographed by Randy Skinner, is punctuated with tap dancers (Skinner was the tap wizard behind 42nd Street), newcomers who are getting principal billing for the first time: potent singer-actresses (Anastasia Barzee is Betty in L.A., Shannon O'Bryan is Judy in San Francisco, Meredith Patterson is Judy in L.A.); nimble comic song and dance men (including L.A.'s Jeffry Denman, once of The Producers, and San Francisco's Mark Ledbetter, who appeared in the 2004 premiere of Irving Berlin's White Christmas); and Tony Award nominees — Brian D'Arcy James (Sweet Smell of Success) is Bob in Los Angeles, Terry Beaver (The Last Night of Ballyhoo) is Gen. Waverly in Boston, Stephen Bogardus (Love! Valour! Compassion!) is Bob in Boston.
All I can say is -- WOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!
By the way, the film version starred only, oh, Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen and Dean Jagger.
Still this has to be the most EXCITING casting since CHEYENNE JACKSON played, er, ELVIS in ALL SHOOK UP!
P. S. I have just stumbled across Amazon.com's page for the faux-Elvis cast album, and DEAF doesn't begin to describe its fans; they're a cross of people who LOVED CATS and people who LOVED MAMMA MIA! and have two cents worth of TASTE among them; they don't know musicals and know Elvis only through SONY BMG's redundant repackagings, barnacles accreting barnacles, or more likely through commercials. We can guess what the creators (which shamefully included R&HCORP) had in mind by putting a ™ next to nine of the song titles. And they didn't know beans either, though they expelled much gas: "Teddy Bear™" and "Hound Dog™" as a MEDLEY? "Follow That Dream" as a BALLAD? This is the CD tombstone of the musical - and of ROCK 'N' ROLL.