I’m sorry, but who thought the Princess Diana Musical was a good idea? [Dlisted]
Tampa cops are still kneeling on the necks of Black people. [Towleroad]
What’s Jeannine Pirro’s drunk ass up to this week? [Pajiba]
Netflix gave Sarah Cooper a comedy special!! [JustJared]
Betsy DeVos’ Title IX changes are upheld in court. [Jezebel]
The Defense of Ellen DeGeneres is rolling along. [LaineyGossip]
If Angela Bassett’s buttony jumpsuit was a dress, Duchess Kate would already own it. (Seriously though, Angela looks awesome.) [Tom & Lorenzo]
Remembering Cate Blanchett’s wacky AF sleeves. [GFY]
Kamala Harris respected the hell out of the late Beau Biden, which is basically why Joe Biden now loves Kamala so much. [Buzzfeed]
Reese Witherspoon was such a cute kid! [Seriously OMG]
‘Diana,’ the new Broadway musical about the life of Princess Diana, will be filmed with no audience and will premiere on Netflix in early 2021.
The musical had just started performances just as the COVID-19 shutdown began.
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A what? LOL!
RE: Biden’s speech. It’s been a long time since I heard a U.S. President sound like a U.S. President. Can’t tell you the many times I’ve muted my TV when Trump’s spray tan filled the screen.
RE: Betsy DeVos. If we need to be stuck with the clown car that is Trump’s administration, can we at the VERY LEAST fire her ass? This goober is incompetent and has no experience to qualify her in ANY role in education. The conservative media has the audacity to question Kamala Harris’ credentials and background to be VP, but HEY let’s give a hard pass to the rich bored white lady who’s doing a great job dismantling the public education sector and students rights. Honestly, what lies do I need to put on my resume to get a job like that??!!!!!
Heard on MSNBC that her security has costs the government over $25 million since she took office as she likes to work out of Michigan home and her vacation house.
To get a job from Trump like DeVos, you have to have tons of money and a brother who is a mercenary that helps Trump and lies repeatedly to Congress without a single qualm.
Her brother Eric Prince is the one to really watch. He has fingers in a lot of pies beneficial to Trump et al. and he knows Trump will protect him no matter what he says or does. He didn’t even try to be consistent in his Congressional testimony and obviously had zero respect for the process. He was/is very much involved in the tangled tale of Trump’s collusion with Russia in the 2016 election and beyond.
Prince’s sister is just the side dish. She wanted the job because she has financial interests in alternatives to public schools, not much else to do, and this seemed like a fun way to benefit her business interests at the expense of the public school system. Just like the guy now ruining the post office for Trump so his competing delivery services can make more money. They are all dabblers with a mission to make profit for themselves and Trump.
For any project or person hired or fired by the Trump Administration, always follow the money. It all ultimately benefits the Mob Boss-in-Chief, one way or another. He admires Putin, who didn’t make his billions in the KGB. Putin cheated to become the Russian President and the kickbacks kept rolling in. Trump didn’t really want to be President initially (he was looking for leverage to get another tv show), but since Putin got him elected – Trump
wants to follow Putin’s model.
The Diana musical just sounds very disrespectful and strange.
Omg. Beauty! Let’s just take a moment to appreciate… Anyway, the world needs to let her rest in peace.
I have never thought much of Joe Biden (obviously I will vote for him!), but hearing an intelligent woman like Kamala Harris talk about her respect for Beau Biden and how he credited his father for his ideals makes me like Joe a lot better. Or at least gives me more faith that he will be a more representative president for women and minorities than I expected from his appearances as Obama’s VP.
Sad to hear a judge hold up Devos changes to Title IX. I’m so sick of Amway peddlers (Devos), pig farmers (Lukashenko), reality show actors (Trump), oil field technicians (Koch), supply chain grunts (DeJoy) and the like destroying civil society around the world–these wicked drones have no business being anywhere near government.
Hmm. Maybe the shutdown was a sign for this particular poorly thought-out musical, that perhaps it wasn’t meant to be…
Everyone thought Lin Manuel Miranda was a little crazy when he originally was writing Hamilton but I doubt the Diana musical is the next Hamilton.
Honestly, Princess Di’s life is basically the Waiting to Exhale soundtrack so I can see it.
The comments on the linked BF article are disgusting. I stopped when I got to “Heels up Harris”. There’s no way a women could ever get to the top unless she’s a criminal or sleeps her way there I guess…?
Actually saw the Diana musical in tryouts and enjoyed it! It is no Hamilton certainly but it was pleasant enough and I’m excited to see what they’ve kept or changed for the final.
I am sure that they are going into the Diana musical with Evita-size saucer eyes. It’s a tragic story, for sure.
I have professional acquaintances who worked on the development of the Diana musical, and I know they’re super excited to see their work reach a wider audience, particularly at a time when a lot in the industry are struggling because of 1) ineffective government response that keeps theaters closed and 2) reticence on the part of theatergoers to return to the theater anytime soon because they won’t feel safe because of the lackluster goverment response. But it just feels incredibly tone deaf on the part of Broadway. Unsurprisingly, BIPOC artists (playwrights, book writers, directors, actors, other creatives) aren’t sufficiently represented on Broadway, which is still considered the pinnacle of success in the theater industry in the US. So for the few shows that have announced plans for returning that aren’t the long-running shows to be so heavily white is disheartening because it makes folks think that all of these discussions that BIPOC artists, producers, administrators, etc. have been pushing for for years and which have been so prominent in our industry in the last few months have been falling on deaf ears of the people holding the purse strings.