On entertainers

[Larry Kart]

An archaic piece of wisdom from the inimitable (and sometimes reprehensible) Westbrook Pegler:

"I claim that anyone professing to be an entertainer should be able and willing to walk out before a cold audience and go to work without the services of a missionary, and I renounce all interest in the private personalities, the business affairs and the marvelous capacity for friendship of those whom I pay to amuse me. In the vaudeville business and musical comedy they used to pretend that they were actors, persons of a make-believe world, and they kept their place and gave us an illusion and more or less fun, according to their abilities, without crawling all over us and breathing in our faces."

[johnblitweiler]

nevertheless I won't attend Gilad Atzmon concerts

[GA Russell]

Larry, do you know what year he wrote that?

I wonder who the personalities were that he was thinking of.

[Larry Kart]

Larry, do you know what year he wrote that?

I wonder who the personalities were that he was thinking of.

Probably late 1930s. If Pegler were around these days, his head might explode.

[JSngry]

... they kept their place and gave us an illusion and more or less fun, according to their abilities, without crawling all over us and breathing in our faces."

See, this is from before people got used to lap dances and shit.

[Scott Dolan]

Let us not dismiss the lap dance missionary, please.

[JSngry]

Aw man, people do anything in public these days and then complain about invasions of privacy and shit. Ya' think?

It's a fool that drinks all the water and then wonders where it all went.