Dear Jay - I thought you might be interested in the attached item from my 'blog, The Tripod War, relating to the proposed nude appearance of Daniel Radcliffe, the star of the 'Harry Potter' movies, on the British stage in Peter Shaffer's play Equus. With simulated sex acts to be performed by the 17 year old, this will be real family fare!Hmmm. Won't all the pre-adolescent girls be excited about this:
It is reported (in the New York Daily News, 23/10/2006), inter alia, that Dan Radcliffe (17), the star of the Harry Potter films, is to play the part of the disturbed adolescent, Alan Strang, in Peter Shaffer's drama Equus, at the Gielgud Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue, London, next February. Richard Griffiths, the Olivier and Tony Award winning star of Alan Bennett's The History Boys, and 'Uncle Vernon' to Dan's Harry, will be alongside him, playing the part of the psychiatrist treating Strang, Martin Dysart.But hey, if the makers of the latest in birth control can market their product to pre-adolescent girls during a prime-time network broadcast of a Harry Potter movie, then why can't Harry, himself, market his own goods to them?
In the play, Radcliffe will be expected to appear nude, and at one point required to sit astride a 'horse' simulating masturbation. The drama is based on the story of a real individual - a young groom who unaccountably started to abuse his horses in the cruellest imaginable fashion, and is a serious and profound piece of theatre. It is practically required reading and viewing for anyone at all interested in the mental health of young people.
But what is happening here is not serious drama, but crass exploitation. The only thing the Gielgud Theatre management are interested in is money, and the sound of tills going 'Ker-ching!' Morality is quite clearly not a consideration, and nor, it would seem, is the health and safety of their 'star'.
For consider the nature of the audience. Half of it will consist of screaming teenage girls, and the other half will consist of dirty old men. The management have even gone to the extent of providing sixty seats on stage so that some of these screaming teenage girls and DOM can get a close-up view of all Dan has to offer. (emphasis added)
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I can see it now - the headlines for the front page reviews in the London tabloids:
Yep classic Jay style blogging, as for the Lima pics, give me an honest answser Jay, who's picture has appeared more on your blog, Lima's, or Ted Kennedy's? Any good-will you have built up with the former is squandered by the later.
ReplyDeleteHaha, just teasing, keep up the good work!
As for Potter, this is just twisted, I was real skeptical about anything related to Harry Potter, then some friends convinced me to see the movies and I figured they were all right, but once again I am starting to think that they are the root of some evil.
I've heard everything now. Still, Her Britannic Majesty's Government hands out free condoms and birth-control pills to teenagers without their parents' knowledge or consent at tax-payers' expense, so I guess just advertising birth-control products to pre-teens during a 'Harry Potter' movie rates as a minor misdemeanour compared to that. HMG also insists on sex education for both pre-teens and teens that supplies kids with all that they need to know about the mechanics (not that they can't find that out in the play-yard!) but very little about things like fidelity, stability of relationships, monogamy, or the importance of marriage and family life.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, with its politically correct views about equality, the Blair Government is committed to doing everything in its power to undermine marriage. Hence, unmarried cohabitees have to be seen as 'equal' to married couples, and so, too, do 'gay partners'.
Then Blair wonders why we have rising rates of marital breakdown and juvenile delinquency!
strange, everything I have ever heard of his parents was positive. They have done all they can to keep their son out of media spotlight & do not allow any partying. They even made the production co. doing to Potter films change one location from some slavic country to another, because the town was supposed to film in is notorious for prositution & drug use.
ReplyDeleteI am very dissapointed to read this, but I will live bc Rupert Grint is my fav in the series anyway. :)
No really, this is disturbing to learn.