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jarnon wrote:The Secret Service can question him and Johnny Depp together. Awesome selfie opportunity.

BackInTex wrote:

jarnon wrote:The Secret Service can question him and Johnny Depp together. Awesome selfie opportunity.

And Kathy Griffin, and the cast and producers of the NYC Shakespeare in the park production, and........

Self, but wrongly, righteous comments such as that made here by SSS is why the Dems are losing election after election. Keep it up.

eyégor wrote: But it is so much easier to bash the other side than it is to come up with any solution.

BackInTex wrote:

eyégor wrote: But it is so much easier to bash the other side than it is to come up with any solution.

Who's looking for a solution? Right now, given the election results, I'm all "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

BackInTex wrote:

eyégor wrote: But it is so much easier to bash the other side than it is to come up with any solution.

Who's looking for a solution. Right now, given the election results, I'm all "If it a'int broke, don't fix it."

littlebeast13 wrote:

BackInTex wrote:

eyégor wrote: But it is so much easier to bash the other side than it is to come up with any solution.

Who's looking for a solution? Right now, given the election results, I'm all "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

Fixed it for you....

lb13

BackInTex wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:

BackInTex wrote: Who's looking for a solution? Right now, given the election results, I'm all "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

Fixed it for you....

lb13

Thanks. Glad to see Ed has backup.

flockofseagulls104 wrote:You're not really serious about this, are you SSS? To suggest that the democrat party is somehow the paragon of civility? What world do you live in?

BackInTex wrote:

jarnon wrote: And Kathy Griffin, and the cast and producers of the NYC Shakespeare in the park production, and........

Bob Juch wrote:

flockofseagulls104 wrote:You're not really serious about this, are you SSS? To suggest that the democrat party is somehow the paragon of civility? What world do you live in?

Not yours, thank God.

silverscreenselect wrote:

BackInTex wrote:

jarnon wrote: And Kathy Griffin, and the cast and producers of the NYC Shakespeare in the park production, and........

Julius Caesar outrage appears to be selective:

http://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news ... -play.html

But a spokesperson for the Guthrie told BroadwayWorld that "Delta was a season sponsor of our mainstage season that year; the support didn't include productions in the Dowling Studio, which is where Julius Caesar was produced."

Charlotte, North Carolina-based Bank of America also pulled sponsorship from the Public Theatre as well (see tweet below). BofA doesn't provide financial support to the Guthrie.

And, because Caesar is cast as a tall, lanky black man, the Obama inference is a bit too obvious

BackInTex wrote:
There is a difference between "inference" and damn near look-alike.

"Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, the rule has been to create a recognizable political world within the production," Andrew Hartley, the Robinson Chair of Shakespeare Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, told CNN. "And often people in the title role itself look like or feel like somebody either in recent or current politics." According to Hartley, the modernization of "Caesar" began with the 1937 production by Orson Welles, who made his Caesar a "Hitler, Mussolini clone" and was focused on the rise of Fascism in Europe rather than the fall of the Roman Republic.

Shakespeare's Caesar has since been made to resemble a number of other political leaders, from Lousiana's Huey Long to British prime ministers Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair to President Barack Obama. "This is a pretty common trope," Hartley said. Before his take on the Trump era, [director of the NYC play Oskar] Eustis put together "Caesar" productions in Providence and Los Angeles in the early 1990s that placed the play in a modern American setting. The playwright Tony Kushner, who has collaborated on work with Eustis, noted in a 1991 letter to the Los Angeles Times that in Eustis' version of "Caesar" playing at the time the title character was "a deliberately composite demagogue, equal parts Huey Long, Lyndon Johnson, Kennedy." As he did in this version, Eustis also appears to have re-created an American First Lady in the form of Caesar's wife Calpurnia in those two earlier productions, which made reference to Jackie Kennedy.

Bob Juch wrote:The NYC Caesar looks like Conan O'Brian.

silverscreenselect wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:The NYC Caesar looks like Conan O'Brian.

It's Gregg Henry, who has a long career in TV and movies as a character actor and usually plays villains:



And if anyone actually remembers the play, Julius Caesar, the assassination of Caesar doesn't turn out well, either for Rome or the conspirators. They all wind up dead and the even more autocratic Marc Antony winds up in power.