Posted on 04/23/2012 12:51:29 PM PDT by TSgt
A man learned the hard way that you don’t take a cell phone call when Princess Leia is preforming.
Carrie Fisher, who portrayed Princess Leia in the “Star Wars” movies, had her one-woman performance of “Wishful Drinking” interrupted twice (you read right, twice) Saturday at the Victoria Theatre by a cell phone user.
A man near the front row apparently couldn’t resist the urge to answer two calls.
Fisher laughed it off when the man answered the phone in the show’s first act, asking if his wife was in labor or something, Diane Schoeffler-Warren, a spokeswoman for the Victoria Association, said.
She was not in a laughing mood when he answered it again in the second act, Warren said.
The man left the theater with Fisher and her sharp tongue on his heels.
“She told him how rude he was,” Warren said. “She handled it with humor, but at the same time, she called him out.”
To Fisher’s apparent surprise, the man later returned to his seat, another audience member told me.
After the show, Fisher said that was the most disrespectful thing she’d ever experienced at a performance, Warren said.
Warren found the whole thing puzzling.
“It is so obnoxious that someone thinks they are so important that they have to answer their cell phone at a show that other people paid to see and that they paid to see. And to do it twice, ” Warren said. ” I don’t know any one that important.”
This isn’t the first time noise at a performance has caused controversy in recent months.
Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Neal Gittleman bounced a wailing baby from a performance in January.
A crying baby is one thing. A jerk on a cell phone is quite another.
Lets see, people drive down the highways at 75 miles per hour texting and dialing phone numbers causing mass death and injury but were supposed to get excited and or annoyed about someone interrupting a celebrity play acting?
Right.
good grief! she ate Jabba the Hut!
My cellphone and I broke up for about a week
But then we got back together -
And the makeup text was fantastic.
I agree.
That’s why I yell “WHY ARE YOU USING A CELL PHONE WHILE SITTING ON THE TOILET !!!”
I bet we could return to the system fairly easily - most doctors have a message service that would have the theatre number. Doctor's generally do not give their cell numbers to patients (well, mine does, but that's another story).
And the guys in the control room deliberately let it go out?
May have been a Bush43 press conference or the like.
Perfect! I was looking to see if anyone had posted that. If not, I was ready .....
Has anyone been to a public venue, from a high school play to a Broadway show, or a court room, that hasn’t been preceded by an announcement to turn off cell phones ?
No, neither belongs at a performance
An un-airbrushed, normal size human being. - We all get old; we all gonna die some day if the Lord tarries.
Only about 3% of the world’s population is genetically geared to be skinny. So, those of us who can’t afford all the bells and whistles to fight it are just who we are. Trying to live life as an airbrushed photograph of a 21 year old would be TIRESOME. - Many of the plastic women tend to finally begin looking like female impersonators with plastic saline bags stuck on their chests.
Told hubby that if he can catch any of those “perfect” old girlfriends between husbands, AND git ‘em; hop to it! I try to be fairly clean and neat, but phony glamor, forget it! Six months would do him with them, too, before he’d soon be disabusing them of thinking they’re hot.
Twinkie the Realistic
It's also a great ring tone.
LOL! That was funny.
“And the one who brings a baby to a public event is the biggest jerk of them all.”
Are you “that person” who gives the evil eye to parents on plane flights?
I myself work in IT and am call 24/7. My users often need help and I can usually fix their problem quickly. If I had to go cell phoneless, then I would just have to stay home.
Cell phones have opened up the world to those of us who are on call. I think that one person is not more important than anyone else. If a friend I took to lunch walked out on me because I took a call, well then that would be my last lunch with that friend.
I was at a wake when a Catholic Deacon was giving the funeral rites at the funeral home when two cell phones went off with the second call resulting in a conversation that you could practically hear over the Deacon. It was horrific.
It’s a good thing it wasn’t a family member of mine in the casket.
>>- We all get old; we all gonna die some day if the Lord tarries.<<
Oh man — you win the Word Of The Week with “tarries” used properly in a sentence!!!!
Of course the opposite is “in the bye and by” (my spelling) :)
>>I was at a wake when a Catholic Deacon was giving the funeral rites at the funeral home when two cell phones went off with the second call resulting in a conversation that you could practically hear over the Deacon. It was horrific.<<
I can’t help but think of if it was accidentally left in the deceased’s pocket.
Caller: HEY JOE, HOWZIT GOING!
(silence)
C: Yo dude, I know I owe you the hundred — I’ll pay it when I get my tax return!
(silence)
C: OK, I know it was wrong of me to sleep with your wife, but we were both drunk and she threw herself at me. You said it was all OK.
(silence)
C: Yeah, I know you are worried about that little mortgage scam we pulled. Not to worry, my lips are sealed.
(silence)
C: Oh yeah? You givin’ me the silent treatment? DROP DEAD!
(TV phone busy signal)
what about cell phones used to go on Freerepublic?
Or post video of politicians and unionistas behaving badly?
lol!
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