Posted on 12/04/2014 9:32:33 AM PST by C19fan
Another heretic statement. Just like the one that said he was married to Mary Magdalene.
The Tin Man makes Nathan Lane look like Clint Eastwood.
I’ve seen many an opera with a female cast in a “trouser role.” They’ve been doing it since Hector was a pup. No one’s getting in a tizzy about that...
Is that a rhetorical question?
His fascination with the Llewelyn Davies boys was certainly not healthy, even if nothing explicitly physical occured.
He was an interesting character - had a very difficult childhood and an awful marriage. I think it was more a case of arrested development than any improper interest in the boys. The boys themselves (when grown) were of the opinion that he was asexual - an “innocent” was how they described him (which perhaps not coincidentally is the Scots term for a childish person). I’ve known at least one person that fits that description.
"I'm Bart Simpson. Who the hell are you?"
Read about it today....a woman was originally played because of child labor laws. A boyof about that age, maybe 11 or 12 would have been underage for peforming in the theater.
As an aside I am finding much of this performance tonight to be either gay or sappier than I remember. I am a Pan fan, not Disney’s version. Shoul NOT have been rated G. Loved the book.
L. Frank Baum was married to Maud - a marriage that lasted his whole life.
And he was a deeply devoted father and husband.
Well, I’ve never seen “The Little Mermaid” and I’ve also never seen a golden dildo. I would venture a guess it would be rather cold and not very flexible, plus if it’s on a castle, it’s probably rather large.
Oh, I know about Barrie. Always interepreted him more through the lens of a Victorian type mindset, and (hoped) some of the things that seem squirrelly about him weren’t necessarily indicative of any kind of perversion. There was a wholly different worldview back then, which invariably might look suspect at times through the innately dark nature of modern culture. I observe it all the time in such vintage artifacts, and even recall it from my late grandparents and great-grandparents lives and attitudes.
I liked the 1924 silent film version of “Peter Pan” with Betty Bronson, but even better was the Barrie/Bronson follow-up, “A Kiss for Cinderella.”
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