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November 16, 2008

Theater Review: Billy Elliot

Actually, I can't review Billy Elliot because I have better things to do with my time than sit through musicals about ballet-dancing coal miners scored by the ostentatiously homosexual moonbat Elton John. So I'll hand this over to Terry Teachout at WSJ:

The setting of "Billy Elliot" is the British miners' strike of 1984-85, about which the average American playgoer knows absolutely nothing. This makes it possible for Lee Hall, who wrote the book and lyrics, to dish up a version that is — to put it very, very, very mildly —a trifle one-sided. In one of the fanciest numbers, a chorus of winsome miners' children sings a festive holiday carol whose refrain goes like this: Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher/We all celebrate today/Cause it's one day closer to your death.
Against this black-and-white backdrop of class warfare, we meet young Billy, a motherless 11-year-old who falls in love with dance, struggles to persuade his homophobic family to send him to the Royal Ballet School and … but you can guess the rest, right? Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd have to be pretty slow on the uptake not to see the happy ending lumbering down the pike, complete with a kick line of miners in tutus who've evidently gotten in touch with their inner Busby Berkeleys.
…I can remember — barely — when Elton John was still a good songwriter, or at least capable of writing good songs. That, alas, was then and "Billy Elliot" is now, and Sir Elton has long since turned into a pusher of faceless pop slop. As for Mr. Hall, his contribution to the show consists in the main of treacly doggerel (And you must promise me this, Billy/In everything you do/Always be yourself, Billy/And you always will be true) heavily sprinkled with four-letter words. That's "Billy Elliot" in a nutshell: It purports to show us a band of stalwart strikers who are fighting to the last to save their jobs, but turns almost immediately into sequin-spangled feel-good socialist kitsch.

The same degenerate liberal elite that gives us Billy Elliot as culture also treated us to Barack Obama as a president elect. Everything it touches rots into moonbattery.

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Sir Elton, British knight, purveyor of high culture.

On a tip from Varla.

Posted by Van Helsing at November 16, 2008 11:32 AM

Comments

not seeing an Open Thread, here's a link to a somewhat dense but very interesting article about the global warming farce and how they faked last month's data to show warming when it fact it was friekin' cold all over the world.

Posted by: mega at November 16, 2008 11:53 AM

NAMBLA gives 'Billy Eliot' two thumbs up... Way WAY up... At least I hope those are thumbs,

Posted by: V the K at November 16, 2008 11:58 AM

Every day, in every way we are now going to have our faces rubbed in gay-socialist-enviro-politically correct-tolerant-progressive-inclusive CRAP.

The gay catch-phrase is now "in your face", esp. here in California where (once again) the voters in the bluest of blue states said "NO" to gay marriage.

For the next four years, those of us left who don't agree with this experiment in social engineering better stand up and be counted. I for one don't want these people "in my face" or, quite frankly, in any OTHER part of my anatomy.

Posted by: matt at November 16, 2008 2:15 PM

I second Matt's comment above.

The Gay (and all the other cross-freaks') agenda forgot that there is a difference between:

- Tolerance

- Acceptance

They use either term interchangeably to "get in your face" but expect nothing but submission from anyone who is only "tolerant". The majority of CA people are "tolerant".

Now they "demand total acceptance" though they have not earned that level of respect from other CA people.

Much like the NEA, the CEA's top agenda item to promote is Gay Acceptance. As seen by the over $1 million that they donated to No on 8, and their continued agenda to teach gay "acceptance" to our children at the earliest grade, it is only a matter of time until they get their way.

Posted by: Oiao at November 16, 2008 3:56 PM

Elton, you old catamite!

Posted by: hana1234 at November 16, 2008 5:21 PM

"the voters in the bluest of blue states said "NO" to gay marriage."

I think that points to one of the biggest problems with the country right now: you have a voting populace who knows what they want, but has no idea what the people they elect really stand for. The media tells them that Bush and McCain are the bad guys, and they buy it hook, line, and sinker. You ask them if they want higher taxes, and they tell you "no." You ask them if they approve of gay marriage and they tell you "no."

Then they go vote for Obama because "the news says he's going to change things."

Posted by: nobody at November 16, 2008 5:29 PM

I like Elton John, although he hasn't been relevant for at least 20 years. Sounds like his new stunt is just a cry for attention. Just sing 'I'm Still Standing' and take a bow, Elton.

Posted by: Smoke TNT at November 16, 2008 6:11 PM

Oiao and nobody are right on the money. I know for a fact (as in gay acquaintances that admit and even brage about it) that the gay agenda (part of which is to break down society as we know it as well as destroying the churches) is what this is all about. Marriage? They could give a rat's ass about marriage. It's just a tool to further political and social aims.

Every (and I mean EVERY) gay guy that I know also admits that things like gay men being Scout Masters is simply a way to get next to young boys in a way that would otherwise be impossible. Yep, for "that" reason. Anyone that says different is a liar. (If this seems anti-gay, then tell me why there are no men working as girl's phys-ed coaches in high schools? Are all straight men predators? Oh...it's not "appropriate"! Why not? Because men might get sexually aroused looking at nude girls in the showers? Well then, what do you think will happen with GAY men looking at nude BOYS in the showers?)

So all of this "in your face" stuff, along with teaching gay acceptance in grade school is just part of the insane "re-engineering" of society. For reference, check out Rome and Caligula. That should about sum it up.

Posted by: matt at November 16, 2008 7:10 PM

"heavily sprinkled with four-letter words. That's "Billy Elliot" in a nutshell: It purports to show us a band of stalwart strikers who are fighting to the last to save their jobs, but turns almost immediately into sequin-spangled feel-good socialist kitsch."


Just another peak into the childish mind (if you call it that) of the left scattered with Gay dementia and agenda. Between DRUGS and the side effect of the "Illness" they are ALL destined to, they cannot think past groupthink.

Posted by: TED at November 16, 2008 7:14 PM

Matt,

O so true on the opening line from all of my gay friends and co-workers. (yes, gay friends)

They open with 'I personally don't want to get married, however, why are we being denied our "Civil Rights"?'

I point out to them that no one is denying them the Civil Rights to live their lives openly and as they see fit, that everyone is now "tolerant" of their chosen lifesyle and if they personally don't want to get married, why do they care anyway.

Hell, look at the MILLIONS or possibly BILLIONS of dollars in extorted domestic partnership benefits that are thrown at them every year (private sector and tax payer funded), and driving most small and moderate sized businesses into the red for having to carry that un-needed burden on their books.

I also point out that every company wants to be PC and ensure their access to these benefits, or they know that the Gay community will piss and moan until the bottom line gets hurt = extortion payout.

And the clinker is when they ask me how I voted. I tell them that I voted Yes on 8 and they loose their minds for a while.

Then I explain to them that my vote had nothing to do with marriage issue at all, but had everything to do with shoving it back into the faces of the Clinton/Dem appointed Judges in San Francisco that took it on themselves to overturn the priorly and properly vote of the will of the people of CA. This issue was already decided.

As it is, they will just get the same judges to overturn this vote anyway.

A couple of them are still talking to me. The rest can go do whatever it is they do. No great loss.


Posted by: Oiao at November 16, 2008 10:26 PM

Elton John has impressed me exactly one time throughout his entire career - his cover of Show Must Go On for Freddy Mercury's tribute album. The guy can sing fit to bust a lung when he wants to. Unfortunately, well, most of the time he doesn't want to because he's too busy writing cheesy pop songs and musicals about gay coal miners. Oh well.

Posted by: mandible claw at November 16, 2008 11:05 PM

Hold me closer Tony Danza.

Posted by: Smoke TNT at November 17, 2008 12:42 AM

The only reason gays want to "marry" is to make the traditional meaning of the word meaningless. Heterosexuals have helped do that to a great degree already, as evidenced by the high divorce rate, but the homosexuals just want to add fuel to the fire. Their short term objective, along with all socialists/marxists/communists is to destroy the traditional family unit in favor of a population that looks to the State as Father and the State as Mother. The long term objective is a variation of the hippie days of the late 60s and early 70s. Imagine all of America being one big commune with being the population stoned on drugs and no government at all in a post industrial civilization.

Posted by: Anonymous at November 17, 2008 6:17 AM

Annonymous,

We want to get married because we love the person we are with the same way you love your wife or husband, and we want to be afforded the same rights. That's it. To say this is some giant conspiracy to wreck marriage...that's the most absurd thing I've ever heard! We're not trying to "wreck marriage" only participate in it!

But you will never believe us, because to you us gays are all evil demons who are out to ruin your life. The hatred for homosexuals on the right is truly terrifying. I moved out of Kansas and to NYC when I was 17 because I feared for my personal safety after 4 years of getting spit on and shoved into lockers and pushed down the hall by people like you. I didn't want to see what you were capable of all grown up.

Posted by: Sam at November 17, 2008 7:27 AM

You guys ADMIT that Obama is preparing a dictatorial take over of the United States, yet you still put up posts on ridiculously trivial subjects likes some stupid gay musical when you should be forming a resistance like the Aryan Strike Force or the Minutemen? What the hell is wrong with you? ALL you should be doing is arming yourselves and spreading the word.

Good to know you have your priorities in order.

Posted by: Maximus at November 17, 2008 7:42 AM

I have never seen the show "Billy Elliott" but I saw the movie years ago. I loved the movie. I bought it on DVD because I liked it so much. There was a homosexual friend in the movie, but the portrayal was not "over-the-top, in-your-face" type of character. I liked the movie. I thought Billy was an adorable, likeable kid.

Posted by: Andrea at November 17, 2008 8:03 AM