| re: Variety reporter booted off MJ Red Carpet for asking "inappropriate" questions |
| Posted by: ryhog 06:59 pm EST 02/04/22 |
| In reply to: re: Variety reporter booted off MJ Red Carpet for asking "inappropriate" questions - Zelgo 05:33 pm EST 02/04/22 |
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You are correct that the production's creatives cleverly concocted a slight of hand to, in their mind, avoid the issue they were prohibited from dramatizing. But the conduct was not before the time on which the show focuses. The production can tell any story it wants to tell, but there is no intellectually valid basis for saying that others are not free to question (and in this case expose) what they did. Even if I accept the idea that "adding the allegations would make little sense" for sake of argument, adding the conduct would make sense and I assume you would agree that if the show had been produced independently rather than as a burnishing and branding effort no reasonable writer - starting with Nottage - would excise the fact (not allegation) that Jackson was sleeping in the same bed with children to whom he was not related would have been unfathomable.
As you may be aware I am not a fan of the jukebox musical, but kindly name a single one that has not been called out on the inexplicability of its narrative, its general insipidity, or some other basis. Reviews of these lazy-ass shows routinely evaluate them based on a higher standard than you seem to be applying here.
Your last point betrays a degree of cynicism that I don't share. |
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