{"id":2305,"date":"2016-10-24T00:17:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T07:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2305"},"modified":"2016-10-24T00:17:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T07:17:58","slug":"rocky-crashes-and-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/10\/24\/rocky-crashes-and-burns\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocky Crashes and Burns"},"content":{"rendered":"

I find it staggering that technology can make enormous strides forward while, at the same time, art can take just as many steps backward.\u00a0 In the golden age of movie musicals (the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s), songs were lip-synched – in many cases, to a different person’s voice!\u00a0 And yet, the end result was often not only convincing but award-winning.\u00a0 This ability seems to be lost – much like the mystery of the pyramids or Pia Zadora<\/strong>‘s career.\u00a0 FOX<\/em>, the network that revolutionized live musicals on TV with Grease: Live!<\/em><\/strong>, all but killed the genre with a misguided and pointless remake of The Rocky Horror Show<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 While there is enough blame to go around, the sound designers and producers should be charged with crimes against humanity at The Hague.\u00a0 Nobody seems to care about matching the ambient sound in a recording studio to that on a soundstage.\u00a0 Likewise, the performers don’t realize that a great studio recording is far different than one which is realistic for acting and movement.<\/p>\n

But the biggest mistake was the casting of Laverne Cox<\/strong>.\u00a0 Strike that – the biggest mistake was Laverne Cox accepting the role.\u00a0 With this one decision, she undid whatever good she’s done for the transgender movement.\u00a0 She’s playing a role confusingly referred to in the revised script as both “she” and “he” (usually “he” is used).\u00a0 And, when the character sings “I’m not much of a man”, we’re seeing these ginormous titties bursting out.\u00a0 After Rocky has sex with Frank-N-Furter, why is he so intrigued by Janet?\u00a0 In the original, it’s because he’s never touched breasts.\u00a0 Maybe in this case, it’s because her breasts were so small…and less tanned!\u00a0 Cox never seemed to have a clear grasp on who this character was.\u00a0 And, what was that accent?\u00a0 It was like a cross between Tim Curry <\/strong>and Dame Joan Collins<\/strong>.\u00a0 In fact, it was as if Dame Joan were doing a Curry impersonation!\u00a0 For someone who has fought hard to be accepted as a woman, Cox gave a performance which seemed like an audition for RuPaul’s Drag Race<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 So much for progress.\u00a0 BTW, I am not alone in my opinion – the bulk of the reviews were middle-of-the-road to abysmal.\u00a0 As to ratings, half the number of people who tuned in for Grease: Live<\/em> even bothered to check this out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I find it staggering that technology can make enormous strides forward while, at the same time, art can take just as many steps backward.\u00a0 In the golden age of movie musicals (the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s), songs were lip-synched – in many cases, to a different person’s voice!\u00a0 And yet, the end result was often<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2310,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions\/2310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}