“Even the Tony show’s host, married Australian actor Hugh Jackman, has a gay connection. He’ll debut on Broadway this fall in “The Boy From Oz,” a musical based on the life of the late bisexual Australian songwriter and performer Peter Allen. The entire show seemed to announce that the powers that be in the theater community are steering the industry from mass culture to subculture. Broadway is no longer a stage. It’s a sewer.” – Brent Bozell, horrified that Broadway’s homosexuals no longer pretend to be straight in public. Here’s a simple question: is it still kosher in conservative circles to describe an entire group of people as representing a “sewer”?
IS THE NYT BETTER ALREADY? I have to say I agree with Mickey that reading the New York Times since Captain Queeg departed is much more pleasant. Yes, there are still liberal bromides, but they’re presented in the old NYT style of gentle uplift and furrowed brows, rather than Howell’s tone of shrieking paranoia and vendetta-mongering. The Op-Ed page is vastly improved under Shipley; and even MoDo has returned to blather about gender pop-culture. Here in Ptown, I don’t have the option of the Washington Post on dead tree and the Boston Globe is unreadable. So the NYT is all I got. But increasingly, it feels like its old self again.
THE LYNCH STORY: More complicated than we all thought. But no dramatization either.
The Dish 