[Magdalen] Please! Clap your hands!

Grace Cangialosi gracecan at gmail.com
Sun Dec 7 03:29:23 UTC 2014


They're in the same camp, in my opinion.

On December 6, 2014, at 9:34 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

Don't like Justin Bieber? How 'bout Miley Cyrus?

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> I refuse to watch it. Grown women playing Peter....ICK! Indeed! Actually I
> was only half joking last year when someone asked me who I thought should
> play Peter Pan and I said Justin Bieber. Perfect example of type casting,
> to my eye.
>
> On Thursday, December 4, 2014, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Well, we did it again.  We watched the latest version of Peter Pan.
> >
> > Each generation repeats the same liturgy.  We laugh out loud with delight
> > as the children learn to fly.
> >
> > As Tinkerbelle is dying, we all clap our hands -- "Yes! We believe in
> > faeries!" -- and, yes maybe a trace of a tear, as we watch Tink's light
> > return.
> >
> > Wendy grows up and Peter returns to bring her back to Neverland for
> Spring
> > cleaning, but it's too late for her. She's grown up now.
> >
> > But her daughter will go with Peter.  And, some day, maybe her daughter,
> > and her daughter's daughter...
> >
> > I remember watching the incomparable Mary Martin play Peter -- just a few
> > moments ago.
> >
> > James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> > *“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things
> better
> > for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your
> time
> > on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente
> >
>


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