Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
We must comment on "The Chairman" because our favorite Branson East columnist does so. Reading between the lines it is obvious he wasn't a warm and fuzzy guy. You couldn't be running an organization with Shubert in its name. And the Shuberts weren't warm and fuzzy guys. Back when the play biz was producing O'Neills and Gerswhins it didn't matter; they ran the trains on time. Now their heirs are real-estate men, SUMNERS without so much goodwill, and they've gone from being terrors to mere anachronisms much as Branson East serves no purpose but to give people a weekend off. Bringing back tyrants will not bring show-biz back -- SLIME proves that notion. But something is missing. Maybe the tyrants knew something.
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