Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 03:39:05 -0400
Subject: Re: PUPT: Mamet, Blair Thomas and N Y Times stupidity
From: Christopher Hudert <heyhoot-AT-mindspring.com>


on 8/3/02 9:16 AM, John Bell at John_Bell-AT-emerson.edu wrote:

> Here's a
> tradition (Ta'ziyeh) which is profound, beautiful, and many centuries old,
> and whose intense, spiritual, martyr plays reflect basic human emotions.
> The fact that a writer for the Times can only connect the puppetry of this
> theater to American television puppetry of the late twentieth century is
> astoundingly lame.  We puppeteers all know that puppet traditions do not
> begin and end with the fine work of Jim Henson and his associates.

But then he wasn't writing for puppeteers, was he? Though I agree it is a
very shallow connection, how many of his readers have even less puppetry
intelect? Yes, he should have done better, but IMHO he was writing for an
audience that in general could not make much of a leap in regards to
puppetry. Just imagine how "wonderful" it could have been had his article
been written for the NY Post instead.

Christopher



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