| re: well Alan | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 09:10 pm EDT 08/23/24 | |
| In reply to: re: well Alan - Chromolume 08:21 pm EDT 08/23/24 | |
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| Hey, Chromolume. While you were typing, I was in the midst of making a couple of edits to my post, including adding this to end: "Sondheim did occasionally speak ill of the living, sometimes a bit cruelly. So evidently he didn't always act in accordance with his own stated beliefs." Brustein was on my mind. Also Elizabeth Taylor. I imagine if questioned about what he wrote about Brustein, Sondheim might have said that Brustein started it by writing nastily about him and Shevelove. But at one of the interviews with Frank Rich, he told a story about Taylor that I thought was cruel. And it was hearsay. Sondheim wasn't even there when the story happened. She was still alive, and I thought it was very nasty of him to tell the story. I suppose he probably felt that it was highly unlikely that Taylor would ever know he told the story, and I think he might have said that he thought Taylor herself would have laughed about it. But I'm not so sure. In 1980, I heard him call Merman "dumb" at a talk with NYU students. The talk was for a small group. It was open to people who weren't students (I wasn't an NYU student), but there was no publicity about it so not many people were there. I guess he would have said, if questioned, that there was no chance that Merman would hear about what he said. Still, it was cruel. Of course, there was what he said about Rodgers. But I have long wondered if he regretted saying it, and if it was after that statement appeared in Newsweek that he decided it was wrong to speak ill of the living. Still, he did do it from time to time (if pretty rarely, at least publicly) after that. |
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