And, intolerance.
We would have thanked this old woman instead for her obvious interest and input. What she wrote was probably also kind of interesting, at least historically…
There was absolutely nothing wrong with what this other older actress did.
This kind of attempted dialog actually used to be pretty common in the old theater and criticism/literary world — and this woman’s outraged reaction to it reminds us of how Pauline Kael was badmouthed after her death because as “a critic” she would often have the audacity to actually contact actors and directors directly and tell them about their work.
How offensive!
“I did do a play once. The last time I was on stage, I did a play called ‘Talley’s Folly’ at the Roundabout, and the actress — and I’m going to say this, and I’m not going to ask you to cut this out, because I don’t f—ing care — this actress came to the play. Her name is Trish Hawkins — Hi, Trish! Hi, Trisha!” Paulson said. “Trish Hawkins came to the play — am I going to get sued? I don’t care, because I think this is outrageous.”
She continued, “She came to the play, proceeded to say — she looked at me up and down and then she went, ‘Your dress is yellow. Mine was pink.’ And I thought, ‘What?’”
Hawkins originated the role of Sally Talley in “Talley’s Folly” both during its 1979 off-Broadway run and its Broadway debut in 1980. In 2013, Paulson played the same character in an off-Broadway revival of the Lanford Wilson play.
According to Paulson, her own mother had brought Hawkins with her to watch “Talley’s Folly” because they were “in some kind of writing group together.”
“Cut to two days later, I got an email that was six pages long of notes and a communication to me about what she had done when she had done the play, what she recommended I do,” Paulson added. “It was outrageous. It was really outrageous. Trish Hawkins, I have not forgotten it, and I hope to see you never.”
It’s not outrageous. You’re an asshole, and just once we’d like to see someone stand up to these public figures on these panels and TV shows and challenge their constant disdainfulness and self-righteous intolerance and smug silencing of everything they take personally or don’t happen to like.
This is one more reason to hate most younger people nowadays, especially those high profile. They are so completely full of themselves — and just so uncool.
They’re always annoyed or creeped out or “offended” by something or another and it’s getting to be tedious. And then they want to retaliate or destroy. Fuck them all, really — we’re getting to the point where we almost want Donald Trump to get reelected in November just to teach these arrogant scolds a lesson.
Give them something to really be resentful over and complain about. It’s also one more reason to hate most actors — with most of this crowd it’s a ridiculous craft they’re a part of, if you can even call it that. What they do is piffle.
This:
The podcast hosts — fellow actors Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett — seemed delighted by Paulson’s story. Arnett even told her they’re going to become fast friends because he loves her ability to hold grudges for more than a decade “so fucking much.”
Ha ha ha ha ha.
See why we go to Polish and European film schools for inspiration, and old books and music? These people who are around us now are all intellectual losers.
They just don’t have it. They just don’t get it, and they don’t care. There are so many toxic morons around now and it’s becoming difficult to get away from them. They’ve destroyed the old zeitgeist, that’s for sure.
But it is possible, and the solutions — aside from having to live like the Unabomber or a Tibetan Monk — are interesting to ponder. And then do.
It’s not personally hopeless, you kids of conscience and sensitivity. Those few of you that are still around!
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