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2006-02-28 Fifth Column
Rickman slams 'censorship' of play about St. Pancake
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Posted by Steve White 2006-02-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11138 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Yippie Ki Yay Mutherfucka! Get over it and yourself
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-02-28 00:11||   2006-02-28 00:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Hahaha...!!!

Yeah. Stage this production in New York City. The place would be picketed EVERY DAY!!! They'd get seatings of no more than 5 people a show. And the picketers would be handing out literature describing what REALLY happened. The anti-play factions would get more publicity -- and sympathy -- than the production itself.

Jews are not intimidated, or concerned about making waves in New York City. Rickman was able to put that play on in Britain because of the predominance of paleo sympathies there and because the Jewish community is so powerless and intimidated.

st pancake doesn't deserve to be glorified. she was a useful idiot and should be pitied. as should Rickman.
Posted by PlanetDan">PlanetDan  2006-02-28 00:20||   2006-02-28 00:20|| Front Page Top

#3 This would be something to cheer about if his play was anything other than a silly little piece of agit prop. But it's not so there's nothing to lose by letting them stage it for a few hundred people over a few months in a dingy off-broadway theater. It would flop bigger than Munich and no one's mind will be changed - the only people who will applaud it are the people already predisposed to believing their little Left wing fantasies about Israel and the Palestininas. The image of Corrie grows even more absurd and untenable against the backdrop of Hamas, Cartoon Jihad and an Iranian Leader clamouring for nukes to wipe Israel off the map. Even the Liberals are growing uncomfortable and only the hardest core of Lefties can still bring themselves to regurgitate the pro-Pali propaganda without coughing nervously.

Let them show the dang play and consign themselves further to the fringe of irrelevance and denial of the new reality. Don't let despicable Alan Rickman have the satisfaction and self-importance to cry censorship.
Posted by Monsieur Moonbat 2006-02-28 01:03||   2006-02-28 01:03|| Front Page Top

#4 If he really believed in that play, wouldn't he have ponied up his own cash to put it on?

(Crickets chirping)

I'm sure there would be some place it could be performed in the Noo Yawk area. Like maybe at a Presbyterian church in that supports divesting from Israel...or maybe one of the local mosques has a tool shed they're not using right now.
Posted by Desert Blondie 2006-02-28 06:54|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]  2006-02-28 06:54|| Front Page Top

#5 If they stage the play, the local IHOP will do landmark business.

"Yeah, give me two dozen to go. No syrup or butter; they fly better dry. Hurry, I got a play to catch."
Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2006-02-28 07:53|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-02-28 07:53|| Front Page Top

#6 We had the stage reinforced, the D9 Cat was ready for shipment and everything...&#&#&@!.
Posted by BacktoPeoria 2006-02-28 07:54||   2006-02-28 07:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Ah. Memories...

Nothing like waking up a week before finals and seeing a D9 parked outsite your dorm window -- in Peoria, even.

Thankfully, the D9 was just for show during the ground-breaking. When I woke up in the middle of finals to discover the dorm being rammed, it was by a lowly Bobcat. Apparently it was INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT for them to remove the window well from the laundry room.
Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2006-02-28 07:58|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-02-28 07:58|| Front Page Top

#8 "..all of us are the losers." Yep, Alan Rickman, St. Pancake = Losers. Maybe if they had renamed it Cats II...
Posted by Inspector Clueso 2006-02-28 09:01||   2006-02-28 09:01|| Front Page Top

#9 a decision the play's British director, Alan Rickman

Director, because he can't get lead roles anymore?
Posted by Raj 2006-02-28 09:37||   2006-02-28 09:37|| Front Page Top

#10 all of us are the losers.

We keep telling you, but you never listen to us.
Posted by BH 2006-02-28 09:59||   2006-02-28 09:59|| Front Page Top

#11 There must be a theater on the campus of Columbia University he can use. I'd stay away from Brooklyn College if I were him, however.
Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow  2006-02-28 10:20||   2006-02-28 10:20|| Front Page Top

#12 LOL RC and BTP.
Posted by 6 2006-02-28 11:59||   2006-02-28 11:59|| Front Page Top

#13 Why do I get the feeling that this is Rickman's version of "Springtime for Hitler."
Posted by DepotGuy 2006-02-28 13:03||   2006-02-28 13:03|| Front Page Top

#14 I was on a construction site last Spring and one of the bulldozers was named "Rachel". I asked th operator if he was making a political statement and he said, "Whadda ya mean? My wife's name is Rachel". LMAO. I'm sorry Rachel is dead but when you're stupid, you pay the consequences.
Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues  2006-02-28 14:42||   2006-02-28 14:42|| Front Page Top

#15 
Posted by .com 2006-02-28 15:48||   2006-02-28 15:48|| Front Page Top

#16 How does the play end anyway? With a cardboard cutout of the actress??
Posted by DonM 2006-02-28 17:08||   2006-02-28 17:08|| Front Page Top

#17 Bad Don.... Bad. Funny as hell tho.
Posted by 6 2006-02-28 17:50||   2006-02-28 17:50|| Front Page Top

#18 By grapthars hammer its sad to see Alan Rickman doesn't understand censorship comes from the government forbidding something, not from a New York Theatre company.

Take the play somewhere else and finance it yourself instead of bitching.
Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz  2006-02-28 20:01||   2006-02-28 20:01|| Front Page Top

#19 I'm having trouble resisting the temptation to make a matzah joke. However, knowing that a lot of people in the Middle East still believe in the blood libel keeps me from saying anything.
Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow  2006-02-28 21:28||   2006-02-28 21:28|| Front Page Top

#20 I created a play and I'm looking for sponsors where I stand on stage for an hour and say every single solitary swear word I know. Since I don't know an hours worth, I'll have to multiple make combinations of the ones I do.

No one is sponsoring me. It's censorship I tell you!! Censorship. I demand money now!!
Posted by 2b 2006-02-28 23:35||   2006-02-28 23:35|| Front Page Top

#21 Dang - and today's National Pancake Day.
Posted by Pappy 2006-02-28 23:46||   2006-02-28 23:46|| Front Page Top

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