Subject:
|
Re: What is a "review"?
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.general
|
Date:
|
Tue, 8 Jan 2002 21:11:59 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1973 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.general, Maggie Cambron writes:
>
> I know I'm jumping late, but this whole thing reminded me of an incident
> concerning an arts critic for one of the big two San Francisco papers a few
> years back. He wrote a review of the opening night performance of a play or
> ballet or something, and no one would ever have known he hadn't actually
> attended the performance except that, unfortunately for him, the lead got sick
> and there was a stand-in that night.
> BTW I will x-post this once to loc.sf just in case anyone knows about the
> critic and whether he got fired or just slunk away into the night, because
> I've always wondered what happened.
Hewell Tercuit, at the S.F. Ballet. They changed the entire second half of the
program due to an injury during the first half, but he left at intermission and
reviewed what had been printed in the program.
He was summarily fired. My wife was working on the show that night.
Maggie, when you gonna pick up your bucket? :-)
Paul Sinasohn
LUGNET #115
|
|
Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: What is a "review"?
|
| (...) Does this mean I have to fire myself? D'oh! To speak to Maggie's original posting. I do hope no one sees this site as anything close to real journalism. I'm not working for anyone, so I am in no sense a journalist. As well, as I've mentioned, (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: What is a "review"?
|
| (...) Yay, I knew someone would come through with what happened-- and funny, I thought it might be you Paul! (...) I figured Hop Frog would be in your neighborhood long before the next time I am down there, so I assumed he would pick it up. If he (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.general)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: What is a "review"?
|
| (...) I know I'm jumping late, but this whole thing reminded me of an incident concerning an arts critic for one of the big two San Francisco papers a few years back. He wrote a review of the opening night performance of a play or ballet or (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
|
63 Messages in This Thread:
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
