And more hilarious cruelty about
Phantom of the Opera
from Salon:
Now it can be told: Although the press has connivingly led us to believe otherwise, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Joel Schumacher are really pseudonyms for two 11-year-old girls from Allentown, Pa., who, disgruntled because their parents wouldn't buy them canopy beds, decided to sit down and write themselves a musical, darn it. And they'd make a movie out of it, too, just you wait and see. "The Phantom of the Opera" is the long-awaited result.
I so totally had a pink canopy bed from the time I was 3 until I was 16 and it was totally old and falling apart, and you couldn't plop down on it with any sort of force or the box spring would fall through the frame and you'd crash to the floor. I can completely understand being bitter about not getting one, because it is the most awesome thing ever. So that would actually explain the awful punishment that is Phantom.
Lord Lloyd Webber's music
I wouldn't be this pedantic if it wasn't the New York Times and if I wasn't weirdly obsessed with correctness in such things, but it's "Lord Lloyd-Webber" with a hyphen. (Yes, even though "Andrew Lloyd Webber" doesn't have one.) Don't ask me how I know this.
I wouldn't be this pedantic if it wasn't the New York Times and if I wasn't weirdly obsessed with correctness in such things, but it's "Lord Lloyd-Webber" with a hyphen. (Yes, even though "Andrew Lloyd Webber" doesn't have one.) Don't ask me how I know this.
Yes. But wouldn't that be showing actual, you know, respect for Andrew Lloyd Webber?
And how did he get to be a Lord? And can Sir Elton John defeat him in a fight?
And can Sir Elton John defeat him in a fight?
I'd think that's a foregone conclusion. Particularly if the weapon of choice is musical composition.
Oh dear Loward. Flashback to SCTV and the Liberace vs. Elton John showdown as acted by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas.
Oh yeah. Loved Dave and Rick.
