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Re: What is a "review"?
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 9 Jan 2002 04:14:48 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Paul Sinasohn writes:
> 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.
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> > 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.
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> 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.
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> He was summarily fired. My wife was working on the show that night.
Yay, I knew someone would come through with what happened-- and funny, I
thought it might be you Paul!
> Maggie, when you gonna pick up your bucket? :-)
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 never does, or if it is
getting in your way, LMK. Thanks BTW.
> Paul Sinasohn
> LUGNET #115
Maggie C.
LUGNET #136
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| (...) Unless Paul's place has changed a LOT since I was there a year ago, you're more in danger of it getting lost than in the way :-) :-) :-) :-) Frank (who was glad to see someone who had a similarly piled up place as I do, and who just saw (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Okay, okay! I'll pick it up. Geez... Anyway, back to the original topic of the thread... Y'know, at the same time that it is dishonest to call these set opinions "reviews" barring actually owning, opening, building, and bitching about the sets (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.general)
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