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By: suckerpants

suckerpants — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:55:32 +0000

listen, i disapprove of the stimulus waste just as much as the next guy, but hold up a second… this i disagree with. do you think the people who work at arts organization around our country, don't have houses and mortgages and kids who need braces? do you think they work less hard than you do? not all art is bad. think about church choir directors and people who preserve old recording and other valuabe not-for-profit organizations that are preserving the american way of life. i dont see how their job is any less important than any other job. but they deserve our support. if you donated some money to them, they wouldnt need the nea… but you dont… so they do.

By: funnyguy

funnyguy — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:32:09 +0000

…and a lot of them receive grant money from the NEA. Go figure.

By: funnyguy

funnyguy — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:30:22 +0000

Ummm… a lot of regional theatres tend to open up shop in some of the worst neighborhoods rather than the best. By establishing a presence in such an area, what was once a ruin becomes "bohemian" thus drawing a crowd and encouraging other (usually small) businesses to open. Its a slow transformation, but I have seen it happen many times.

By: ALLAMERICAN

ALLAMERICAN — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:55:03 +0000

This Dude looks like George Soros with a beard. I've got this terrible sinking feeling of more crosses set in jars of urine more portraits of the Madonna smeared with elephant feces and more plays with Judy Garland wannabes singing and mincing around in Nazi uniforms and more logic that defends this kind of… art. O.K. Fine! This is still America but not on the Taxpayer's Dime Please.

By: StageRight

StageRight — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:10:28 +0000

To those who ask: "Who is this guy?" Please follow the link provided on his name in the first sentence of the post. But, in short: Rocco is a Broadway theatre producer who has served as President of the Jujamcyn Theatre chain (owners of several Broadway Theatres) over the past twenty+ years. He is brash, outspoken and seems to always make headlines.

By: BevfromNYC

BevfromNYC — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:02:31 +0000

Obviously, Mr. Landesman, needs to take some of that NEA money and travel around to many of the fine smaller communities in this great country of ours and see what artists, actors, musicians, and general theatre folk are doing outside NY, Chicago, and LA. He will be amazed what small budgets and lots of creativity can produce. Anyone can create blockbusters with $10Million budgets, but it takes a great deal of actually creativity and talent to do the same for few thousand. And those small companies do it every season.

By: MarkinRuralOhio

MarkinRuralOhio — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:56:07 +0000

well,

'When you bring artists into a town, it changes the character, attracts economic development, makes it more attractive to live in and renews the economics of that town"

With all due respect,..

please,..

That's insulting on several levels, the common sense one worst of all.

We're losing our police and fire personel to cutbacks,. closing schools, but a statue,….. by God, a statue,

that'll return our industrial base.

I'm sorry, but my brother is being cut after 13 years, we're out of time and money.

By: FeFe

FeFe — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:46:22 +0000

I shall make another prediction. He will be front and center defending taxpayer dollars on an offensive something this fall. You don't expect him to go through the holiday season without being the hottest guest on the invite list do you?

By: Tchristemac

Tchristemac — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:30:04 +0000

The National Endowment for the Arts is one of the big stimulus winners. THANKS!!!!

By the way, I know I may have lived under a rock for 40 years or so… BUT WHO IS THIS MAN?????