File spoon-archives/puptcrit.archive/puptcrit_2003/puptcrit.0308, message 96


From: "Preston Foerder" <preston-AT-pfpuppetry.com>
Subject: PUPT: Re: Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:30:16 -0400
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 12:38:40 -0400


I really didn't want to get into this discusssion but....Oh my God!  You're
so right.  And I've been so wrong.  I've seen the light.

Let's do away with all off-broadway, fringe, and experimental theatre that
doesn't make any money.  Not to mention experimental films and
documentaries, they never make any money.  While we're at it, let's get rid
of opera, ballet, and orchestras.  None of them are surviving off ticket
sales.  And museums and zoos, the gate's not paying all of their costs,
either.  And that Van Gogh, what a hack!  Never sold a painting in his
lifetime.  Let's all cater to the lowest common denominator all the time in
order to make the most amount of money.  To heck with "art" and, god forbid,
"fun".

And while we're at it, I have a few recipes for serving up poor children as
entrees for the dinner table, to get rid of that problem as well.

Preston

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Youngdahl" <daveyoungdahl-AT-earthlink.net>
To: "puptcrit" <puptcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 11:55 AM
Subject: PUPT: Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:30:16 -0400


> >Bottom line is THE BOTTOM LINE: Does it
> >entertain, thrill, challenge,
> >educate or fulfill some other purpose? Does it
> >SELL and is it worthy of an
> >audience's time???? So regardless of what
> >you call it for marketing purposes, it
> >should be of highest quality that you can
> >provide...Jim Gamble
>
> THIS is why Jim Gamble makes money at this while so many of us make "art"
> or "fun"
>
> He THINKS right.
> if you live in a capitalistic society, then what you make HAS TO have a
> paying audience, or you haven't DONE anything at all...
>
> David Youngdahl
> daveyoungdahl-AT-earthlink.net
>
>
>
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