This is floating around the theatre boards. I thought I’d give Dopers a chance to weigh in on it.
Which Springfield is that?
And doing 7 men at the same time. What does the Bible say about that?
I know-“Be fruitful and multiply!”
I don’t know anyone on the face of the Earth who cares what Carol Channing thinks or if Carol Channing thinks.
And check this out:
Clearly the ole gal is behind the times. And not just in regards to her homophobia.
I’m not surprised with the interview. She’s an old lady. Old people have never been politically correct. It’s kind of like condemning Charlton Heston for being racist in that Bowling for Columbine documentary. What he said was chilling, but it’s not like beating him over the head is going to change anything. Either pity them or ignore them, I say.
It is somewhat surprising that she’s spent about a 1000 years in live theater and hasn’t realized that the Bible’s prohibitions against homosexuality are a bunch of hooey. I always thought that airhead thing was part of her act…guess I was wrong.
Ba-nanner oil. My mother is the same age as Carol Channing, and is one of the most gay-friendly people you could find.
I’m not saying all old people are homophobic…or racist…or anything. But I don’t see what’s the usefulness in pointing out all the homophobic old people. It’s like pointing out their lack of fashion sense or their blue hair or the fact they have whiskers growing out of their noses. Yeah, it’s ugly but is it earth-shattering?
I suppose if one had to live with Carol Channing (shiver), it would be a different thing. I probably WOULD beat her over the head. But when this crusty broad dies in a few years, no one is going to remember her off-color remarks about the gays, or the fact that she showed pride in her black roots by keeping it secret until she had long reached the pinnacle of her career.
So. Carol Channing is like 90% of her generation, judgemental towards and non-sympathetic to gay folks. What’s new?
I had to read that sentence about 4 times before I finally realized what she meant.
I don’t particularly know who Carol Channing is (though she looks familiarish), but my impression from the interview is less that she is “old”, and more that she is possibly senile. I wouldn’t be surprised if she was more tolerant a few years ago, but now is falling back on her younger superstitions and such.
Certainly, I doubt that most healthy people are going to not figure out that the Gay People’s Chronicle is a gay magazine, nor are they going to blather out that they slept with seven people at the same time just a few minutes into an interview.
Ahah. Strike that bit off my last post.
Seven “impersonators” doing a Carol Channing…
It might make a difference to her fans, monstro. If you were a big fan of someone and you found out that they had a bunch of interesting opinions about you and your people, wouldn’t you want to know? I think I would.
I still didn’t realize it until I read your post.
And I’ve seen Rich Little “do” her with my own eyes.
:smack:
She was married to a gay man for 42 years. She’s probably just pissed off.
Ask me sometime about my run-in with the two of them.
Jeez, remind me to stay clear of Miami, if 90% of the old people there are hairy, badly dressed, racist homophobes! Here in New York they tend to be more chic and forward-thinking.
Carol Channing is a Broadway–nay, a show-business–legend, up there with Ethel Merman and Bernadette Peters. So hearing that she is a right-wing religious nut is a bit dispiriting. I always knew she was ditzy, but I’d thought she was agreeably ditzy.
What about your run-in with the two of them?
When I was a teenager, Carol Channing and Eddie Bracken were in town with a touring company of Hello, Dolly! My friend Jenny, an autograph hound, asked me, who could drive, if I could take her to the local TV station for Carol’s autograph. We caught Carol and her fussy husband Charles Lowe coming out of the studio, and Jenny got her autograph before Charles shooed Carol off into her limousine for rehearsal at the performing arts center. When Jenny heard that, she asked me to drive her there, too. We found the theater doors unlocked, and rather naively plopped ourselves down in the middle of the orchestra seats. Soon Carol began rehearsing a number with the cast. But during the next break, she asked someone to tell “those children” that this wasn’t an open rehearsal. She was wearing her cordless mic at the time, so this request went around the auditorium at full volume.
We politely left, and watched the rest of the rehearsal crouching down in the balcony.
I would have thought that all those decades i musical theatre would have changed–or a least softened–her beliefs regarding gay people. I guess some people never learn.
Maybe she was irritated that the competition was taking away gigs that should have been hers.