Posted 8:40 AM by Gene

We are sorry to hear that BABS won't win an Os-CAR® for being SUPERANGRY. Art offers alleged reasons for turning her down but the fact is he and HERR DOKTOR SONDHEIM are OSSIFIED. It's hard to think otherwise given their combined age of over 174 but their chronological age is tripled by being in a biz that is itself among the walking dead, and whose denizens read The Paper of Re-CORD so thoroughly they've assumed its cheap philosophizing too. That Art is so thoroughly opaque in his reasoning marks him as one of its charter subscribers. Whatever happened to "Let's do a show!"? We know what happened -- we see it on BRANSON EAST. Luckily for him Jule Styne died in 1994; otherwise the combined age of the creators would be 280.

Of course there could be a good reason, which Art scoured the Merriam-Webster Third New International to obscure: Not that Gypsy's a de facto gay musical (about a heterosexual female STRIPPER!), nor that it would thus be a de facto AHTHOUSE film; no, as Art admits, there's already been one bad movie version. A second with a sixty-eight-year-old lead who'd need makeup by Industrial Light and Magic would positively STINK. And maybe Art's simply much too savvy to let that one out.

(Via the usual AHTSJournal)