"So you spend a lot of time again responding to things I haven't said or suggested. I love musicals, I love SNL musical monologues (unless it is terrible), and the more they push the envelope the happier I am." Ah, thanks for the clarity and I beg your pardon for presuming. It was my attempt to reconcile my…

Yes, frustrating when you take the time to respond and glitches beyond your control scrub it, isn't it? Not sure what you mean by straw man, though, because I thought we're discussing the artistic legitimacy of recreations. But even aside from that, it seems we feel very differently in particular about this…

Joseph Gordon-Levitt brought fantastic energy, spirit and physicality to a live performance in one take. Donald O'Connor's own amazing performance was completed over several takes, followed by three days' bed rest for O'Connor to recover. Both are acts of genuine skill. (And the bit with Bobby Moynihan was very…