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Theater Critics Lack Job Skills To Survive Depression
New York, 8:18 PM
Sun Dec 6
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11/02/08
11/02/08
Watch the staged critics' roundtables during the recent documentary Show Business; he's the only one who has nothing constructive or illuminating to say. He doesn't want to be Addison DeWitt: he wants to be some bastard combination of Walter Winchell and Matt Drudge. And he fails in both directions.
11/01/08
11/01/08
You know what, fuck that shit. I was a reporter for 10 years in New Jersey and had to do a lot more unpleasant things than talk to striking actors. Has the dude ever had to do "cop checks" or go to fucking municipal budget meetings? What about working election night calling 105 year old vote counters in weird counties? Or talk to the family members of murder victims or write obituaries on Christmas day
What a dick this dude is.
"Misled" my ass.
11/01/08
11/01/08
I have no fucking sympathy for a dude who got a theater reviewing job at one of the highest paying newspapers on the East Coast and then bitches that he actually has to work - and seems to think that learning how to use new technology is beneath him.
11/01/08
11/01/08
11/01/08
11/01/08
The only times I don't find work hard and dull is when I'm writing "reviews" for really pretty escorts. And even describing imaginary sexual encounters with them gets old if I have to do it for more than about two days in a row.
But, Jesus Christ, how hard could a theater reviewing job be? Compared to all the other drudge work that journalists have to go through - it's a snap.
And these guys make a fortune because they are considered featured writers. I remember the day I found out that the highest paid writer on the Gannett New Jersey staff was the television writer.
This was after I'd spent three weeks working 12+ hour days covering a really long and involved and sad murder trial that sucked the soul out of me.
11/01/08
11/01/08
That said, there was a fairly high asshole quotient at the papers I was working for as well, so please don't take this as a dig against the Ledger per se....