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Dave, be sure to let us know how Zelda went! :laugh:

[old man voice]When I was born, Adam, on 3-9-59...it was during that small window when there were 49 states in the union! That's how OLD I am! :laugh: [/old man voice]

I was kinda hoping for the classic Patrick Sun letter grade for the movie... :D

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This issue of race as it pertains to film casting is one that has been discussed many times over on this forum. I fall on the side of not being able to justify the arguments that it's a positive thing to cast actors of other races in certain roles in some instances...while it is simultaneously...

Nope. Not sure how it'll be much safer in 2021 than later this year,

Forgive me if this has been posted before in this thread (but I haven't seen them)...but still images of some of the shooting locales in Harlem have been making it into the NYC papers:

Done.

To me, Adam, it is very much an apples-to-apples comparison and what you and others are engaging in is rationalization. What's good for the goose needs to also be good for the gander. If society wants to right prior wrongs, society needs to treat all equally. You can't change a poor...

Pretty much...

People are too hung up on such things as race and ethnicity in terms of casting. And too many people try to have it both ways lending a clear cast of hypocrisy on what they find acceptable and what they find offensive.

Is that all that matters? That she looks like she belongs in the role? Or, is it essential that she actually be Hispanic? Or does she need to be of Puerto Rican descent? My head swims trying to keep up with what's "appropriate." I was told earlier in this thread that it would be improper...

I still disagree that not casting Puerto Rican actors in this film will somehow thwart "progress" of one sort or another. It's just show business. It's hard for me to believe that it's okay for a Puerto Rican to be cast in a role originally written for a white American but not okay to do the...

But she might just be one of the hottest young actresses in Hollywood right now...

So he is obviously over-qualified to play Maria. Slam dunk! ;) :D

My guess for Maria is Lin-Manuel Miranda. Very talented fellow. (I can hear the rap version of I Feel Pretty in my head as I type this...) :laugh:

Amen. I think I remember that Bernstein hand-picked those two as his leading vocalists (along with Marilyn Horne and others)? No idea why he (or anyone else) would have thought that was a smart bit of casting.

You'd be hard-pressed to know WSS wasn't an opera if all you knew was the Bernstein-conducted recording with Te Kanawa and Carreras.

That's what I always say about Lea Salonga! :D

Didn't work for me.

I'm afraid we need to wind down this off-topic sidebar, Jake. But I don't see how if I'm hired by someone to do a job that gives me standing to start telling my boss what-to-do and how to run his business--especially after I decide to quit. She is nothing but hired-help who has a grand...

As far as the Disney version of Beauty and the Beast goes...I'm not sure it makes any sense to "go there." Gaston lives in the same French village as Belle. During the song Belle (in the 2017 version), Gaston tells his sidekick LeFou that "she's the only girl that gives me that sense of..."...

Sure. Cast a white actor to play MLK...if that's what the show's producers/directors want to do. Maybe they'd have some artistic reason for wanting to do so (maybe to make some kind of point that we really need to be colorblind on the subject of race). Such a decision might be the WORST...

No. It doesn't. I understand that she went through some deep soul-searching and came to this realization that she should not perform in this particular production for some personal belief. Her words: I just can't see how her stepping away from this performance accomplishes anything of...

Personally, I don't see that the above statement (and action) by Sierra Boggess proves anything...except that she changed her mind about performing in the production. Boggess singing the score doesn't "deny Latina singers the opportunity to sing this score"...much like a remake of West Side...

I'm not Josh, but I believe that smiley face is an indication that he was joking...

I HATE that Jim Henson dared to remake West Side Story. Now the original is compromised. Too soon? :blush: