That's absolutely hilarious. I'm looking forward to hearing if he expects the city to give him veto power over all art that affects what he thinks is the perceived message of his piece, and what the radius of the no speech zone he wants to police is.

I mean it's been a place where trolls play earnest little girls and start shit for years. Nobody real will miss it.

Eh. It was a roach motel of bros cosplaying cartoon SJWs for years. It's just official now.

I was never a fan, so I'm probably not the right audience :)

If he were the only thing standing between the United States and Donald Trump, I would vote for him.

Eh. He's got a summit coming up with Susan Sarandon and Tulsi Gabbard. I think he's staked out his turf.

So she wants us all to work at will without a minimum wage, but she has specific legally-enforceable whims about what her employer has to pay her to do? Must be nice to be some people.

There was a big fuss at the time about the previous, connected, gentlemen friend Al Jolson got Ruby Keeler away from, so I assumed. Although I realize having Ruby Keeler played by a beautiful woman who was a great dancer is a stretch.

This is also true :)

I heard about it from someone who was involved in Catholic politics back in the day, but I thought the chapter of this I read squared pretty well with what I heard, and Molly Ivins gave this one a pretty good review in the Times. You can also download his extensive FBI file here.

Aw, I thought the ballet was an ironical comment on Busby Berkeley.

The sad thing is that you're not completely wrong. Except that it has a much longer legacy of terribleness.

Really? Compared to You Were Meant for Me? Either time?

I'd like to see a movie about the Archbishop of New Orleans excommunicating Leander Perez and the rest of the dixiecrats running Plaquemines Parish in the early sixties for resorting to violence to stop desegregation.

Her costumes are unfortunate, and she looks ill through a lot of it, but there are a few scenes (Mac the Black, the throwing scene someone mentioned above) which are great fun to watch. And the pirate ballet would be worth it if it was nothing but the scene at the end where Minelli's camera focused lovingly on Kelly's…

I did, actually. They assigned it to us in jschool :)

They kind of don't have a choice. CTW stopped getting government funding to produce their shows ages ago.

Yeah. Hefner started Playboy in the early fifties as an aspirational magazine for post-war strivers, and he bought the first Mansion in Chicago in 59. He didn't buy the current mansion until 71.

Guy who makes shit about his CV up seizes televised redemption through the deaths of others. It's like a theme.

If only its business model was whistle-blowers.