That scene of the Kennedy Center showed that the hall was half empty. Did people have to have a security clearance or Republican Party membership card to get in?
This makes me really want a version with updated sets and costumes. Jean val jean will clearly be a Mexican immigrant. Javert an ICE agent. Marius a protestor on the streets of LA. Since the Thenadiers love to profit off of misery they can be dressed as fox news anchors.
"As has been discussed many times, Les Misérables is Donald Trump’s favorite...'
Of course it is. In its original Broadway run in the eighties, it was the biggest thing in town. Cats ran longer, but Les Miz was klassy, and NYC advertising was so pervasive that it was used as a running theme in American Psycho.
It ticks all Trump's boxes. 80:s, inescapably pervasive in its particular area of the arts, an aura of classiness, and full of messages that Trump can deliberately misinterpret as personal aggrandizement in order to stick his greasy thumb in everybody else's eye, which he lives for.
When a political organization appropriates a song, isn't that copyright infringement? Shouldn't they be sued by the song's owner? Why doesn't that happen?
"Shouldn't they be sued by the song's owner? Why doesn't that happen?"
Actually it does happen...The process of a suit has to begin with a cease and desist order, which are generally complied with, however the 'damage' has already been done so to speak and the association with song and campaign established
Yes, Republicans and conservatives lost the plot a long time ago. They think they are the good guys in the comic-book story running in their heads, but they don’t have enough self awareness to realize they talk, think and act like the villains. Or they believe the myths of their one dimensional ideology or cynically exploit them to accrue power for self enrichment. May they meet horrific and agonizing ends.
The pseudo-president will finally get so pissed at the crowd disapproval when he tries to go to a show at any of the Kennedy Center theaters that he'll either declare that there must be a performance of any shows he thinks he likes that closes off the theater to all except for him as his remoras, or a demand that the cast and crew move everything to the White House for a command performance there. I consider the Kennedy Center sort of sacred ground. We had season tickets for the National Symphony for years and saw numerous musicals, including "Mass" and "Sweeney Todd." President Turdblossom has fouled that ground.
Ta, Evan. I've never seen a production of Les Miz. I have, however, read the book, so I know far more about it than That Thing in the Offal Office or Thing 2 in the Naval Observatory. Or their wives, for that matter. And Ric Grenell can eat a fun size bag of salted rat dicks.
I've never seen one, either, but my oldest son did when his class (from teeny-tiny Crosby, MN) went on a trip to NYC—it was in May, 2001 so he has photos of the Twin Towers. They also went to see Les Miserables and my New Age Punk skateboarding teen absolutely LOVED it. He still talks about the experience to this day.
Victor Hugo was inspired to write Les Miserables after he witnessed some young wealthy men frolicking in the snow who decided it would be funny to throw snow down the back of a poor woman. When she fought back, she was arrested. In the novel the same thing happens to Fantine, the tragic mother of Cosette, who sold her front teeth to pay for her daughter's care.
Donald Trump was the kind of person that Victor Hugo despised.
Ancient and Unteachable, abide—abide the Trumpets!
Once again the Trumpets, for the shuddering ground-swell brings
Clamour over ocean of the harsh, pursuing Trumpets—
Trumpets of the Vanguard that have sworn no truce with Kings!
-Kipling, "The Old Issue"
I was thinking whether it would be a good idea to sing this on Saturday. Depends on if I can find a group of theater kids, I guess.
I did see a guy with a sign that said “do you hear the people sing?”. I asked him when he was going to start the sing-along.
That scene of the Kennedy Center showed that the hall was half empty. Did people have to have a security clearance or Republican Party membership card to get in?
This makes me really want a version with updated sets and costumes. Jean val jean will clearly be a Mexican immigrant. Javert an ICE agent. Marius a protestor on the streets of LA. Since the Thenadiers love to profit off of misery they can be dressed as fox news anchors.
"As has been discussed many times, Les Misérables is Donald Trump’s favorite...'
Of course it is. In its original Broadway run in the eighties, it was the biggest thing in town. Cats ran longer, but Les Miz was klassy, and NYC advertising was so pervasive that it was used as a running theme in American Psycho.
It ticks all Trump's boxes. 80:s, inescapably pervasive in its particular area of the arts, an aura of classiness, and full of messages that Trump can deliberately misinterpret as personal aggrandizement in order to stick his greasy thumb in everybody else's eye, which he lives for.
What a mortifying hillbilly Vance is! He’s never heard of the novel of the same name?
I guess they only read McGuffey’s Readers in his primitive school “holler.”
Chandler: I'm not gay. I'M NOT GAY!!!
Coworker: I didn't think you were gay. NOW I do!
When a political organization appropriates a song, isn't that copyright infringement? Shouldn't they be sued by the song's owner? Why doesn't that happen?
"Shouldn't they be sued by the song's owner? Why doesn't that happen?"
Actually it does happen...The process of a suit has to begin with a cease and desist order, which are generally complied with, however the 'damage' has already been done so to speak and the association with song and campaign established
Yes, Republicans and conservatives lost the plot a long time ago. They think they are the good guys in the comic-book story running in their heads, but they don’t have enough self awareness to realize they talk, think and act like the villains. Or they believe the myths of their one dimensional ideology or cynically exploit them to accrue power for self enrichment. May they meet horrific and agonizing ends.
I see it was a sell-out, too!
lolol
Probably because "angry (white) men" are his core support, so he thinks it's a good theme song for him.
Surprise twist: He only went to Les Miserables because he read as far as the first word and incorrectly assumed that it was girl on girl pron.
The pseudo-president will finally get so pissed at the crowd disapproval when he tries to go to a show at any of the Kennedy Center theaters that he'll either declare that there must be a performance of any shows he thinks he likes that closes off the theater to all except for him as his remoras, or a demand that the cast and crew move everything to the White House for a command performance there. I consider the Kennedy Center sort of sacred ground. We had season tickets for the National Symphony for years and saw numerous musicals, including "Mass" and "Sweeney Todd." President Turdblossom has fouled that ground.
Ta, Evan. I've never seen a production of Les Miz. I have, however, read the book, so I know far more about it than That Thing in the Offal Office or Thing 2 in the Naval Observatory. Or their wives, for that matter. And Ric Grenell can eat a fun size bag of salted rat dicks.
I've never seen one, either, but my oldest son did when his class (from teeny-tiny Crosby, MN) went on a trip to NYC—it was in May, 2001 so he has photos of the Twin Towers. They also went to see Les Miserables and my New Age Punk skateboarding teen absolutely LOVED it. He still talks about the experience to this day.
Does the PAFB haz “aptitude” for music?
Yes if you consider all the obnoxious sounds he constantly emits from his butt trumpet as “musics.”
Victor Hugo was inspired to write Les Miserables after he witnessed some young wealthy men frolicking in the snow who decided it would be funny to throw snow down the back of a poor woman. When she fought back, she was arrested. In the novel the same thing happens to Fantine, the tragic mother of Cosette, who sold her front teeth to pay for her daughter's care.
Donald Trump was the kind of person that Victor Hugo despised.