tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829734.post8190023092877572793..comments2024-03-28T00:18:42.009-04:00Comments on The Wicked Stage: Hanging SpectersRob Weinert-Kendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015688507553252146noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829734.post-63965168871114317302012-03-02T17:13:05.809-05:002012-03-02T17:13:05.809-05:00Ah, thanks for pointing out that you did not, in f...Ah, thanks for pointing out that you did not, in fact, call his review racist. That description came from elsewhere and that's what I was responding to above.Michael Dalehttp://www.broadwayworld.com/showtimenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829734.post-18769693473411598112012-03-02T15:55:05.553-05:002012-03-02T15:55:05.553-05:00e theseduaI haven't seen the play yet but I ju...e theseduaI haven't seen the play yet but I just read the entire review and all I see is a reviewer trying to communicate what he believes the playwright was trying to accomplish. Sometimes racism is a matter of interpretation and someone's completely innocent observation can be taken a different way. Did you consider discussing the review with Matthew before calling his review racist?Michael Dalehttp://www.broadwayworld.com/showtimenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829734.post-28921087254850121392012-03-02T14:46:55.656-05:002012-03-02T14:46:55.656-05:00"The words 'Castro Street' are never ..."The words 'Castro Street' are never uttered in 'Brokeback Mountain', but the San Francisco gay district hangs like a specter over Ang Lee's movie. The Wyoming hill that gives the work its title is, if anything, a satellite colony, where the inhabitants are united by romantic feelings the outside world simply cannot understand."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829734.post-313950388229729972012-03-01T10:44:55.611-05:002012-03-01T10:44:55.611-05:00"The word 'Clowntown' is uttered rare..."The word 'Clowntown' is uttered rarely, if ever, in Matthew Murray's critical output, but the storied burg of buffoonery hangs like a specter over his entire body of work, haunting every banal non-insight, every failure of comprehension; indeed, Murray's column can plausibly be interpreted as a series of signals to his ancestral home, alerting his fellow bozo-eoise to his presence, E.T.-like, and pledging his dedication to the cause of disseminating fatuity and anti-wisdom across every last corner of cyberspace."JoeDnoreply@blogger.com