... to let the yawn that was this year's Kennedy Center Honors (except for Dolly) pass without comment, until Slate magazine, via Rob Kendt at The Wicked Stage, brought this huge honking laugh to his attention:
"The Dec. 4 New York Times contains the single stupidest sentence to appear in that newspaper since I began reading it more than three decades ago. It's in a news story by Holli Chmela about the Kennedy Center Honors, an annual ceremony recognizing lifetime achievement in the performing arts. One of this year's winners was Andrew Lloyd Webber. Here is the sentence:
"Mr. Lloyd Webber is often referred to as the Shakespeare of his time with musicals like Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats, and The Phantom of the Opera."
Now, Tboy knows one or two of the people who cover theater at the NYT, and for the sake of his self-respect and his respect for them, he thinks he'll just be content to believe that they were all at home on Sunday, when that article was being edited.
Never mind the nonsense of the assertion (for details on which read Tim Noah's original item); it doesn't even parse well.
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