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2004-08-25 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Super Hose 2004-08-25 01:20|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Culture Wars, methinks.

Posted by .com 2004-08-25 3:04:31 AM|| 2004-08-25 3:04:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 .com, could be but I just couldn't take the isue of 8 naked guys singing to GOP conventioneers seriously. I'm glad no pictures were included as the innuendo was bad enough.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-08-25 3:08:21 AM|| 2004-08-25 3:08:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Agreed - without reservation! I am amazed by the segment of society that believes themselves avant garde and daring. Something of a "If it feels wrong, do it!" mentality. Must make them feel all tingly and special. Lol!

Posted by .com 2004-08-25 3:18:48 AM|| 2004-08-25 3:18:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 well said, .com.

Posted by B 2004-08-25 4:59:37 AM|| 2004-08-25 4:59:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Aw, come on. I could just see the "Yatta!" guys entertaining the delegates. That is, if that J-pop group is still around... think Village People as a half-dozen overcaffeinated Japanese guys in fig-leaf shorts.

Posted by Mitch H. 2004-08-25 7:35:19 AM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2004-08-25 7:35:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 "A review in the New York Times, posted on the show's website, noted that 'Naked Boys Singing' isn't for everybody . . . symbolic re-creations of masturbation and crude terms for it . . ." " . . . full frontally outrageous."

Maybe that sort of thing just doesn't sit well with the goals of the GOP Convention. Free country, right? Can't the convention organizers decide what they will, and will not, list as their recommended tourist attractions? Hate to break it to the managers of that show, but NY was chosen for the convention as a way to support the city, post 9/11--not to support the fringe. If people want to find the weird stuff, no one's stopping them, but the convention planners were right not to officially support it as a regular part of the convention experience.

Posted by ex-lib 2004-08-25 10:14:24 AM|| 2004-08-25 10:14:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 "Naked Boys Singing is the official Broadway musical of the New Jersey governor's mansion."

Posted by Mike 2004-08-25 11:19:56 AM|| 2004-08-25 11:19:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Sounds terribly dull...I haven't yet seen male exotic dancers who could actually dance, and anything less is a turn-off rather than otherwise. But then, I'm female. Maybe the men here feel differently ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2004-08-25 11:20:43 AM|| 2004-08-25 11:20:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Funny. My fiancee used to live adjacent to the Boys Town neighborhood in Chicago where this show played for a long while. (Perhaps it still does.)
Seeing their headshots posted in the theater window led me to believe you couldn't find a more effeminate bunch of males anywhere.

Ah well... repetition evidently breeds tolerance. Or at least *quiet* eye-rolling.

Posted by eLarson 2004-08-25 11:53:42 AM|| [http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2004-08-25 11:53:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 But a few days ago, the show was dropped from the list of discounted theatrical offerings.

Any bets Andrew Sullivan is gonna bitch about having to pay full price?

Posted by Pappy 2004-08-25 11:55:58 AM|| 2004-08-25 11:55:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 And of course the tired old cry of "censorship" rings out. The play's supporters also mention discrimination, now that might be a more accurate term. The Republicans are excersizing their right to use discrimnating TASTE for their conventioneers.

Posted by Craig 2004-08-25 1:58:07 PM|| 2004-08-25 1:58:07 PM|| Front Page Top

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