Clintons and Albright exhibit more rudeness in London

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It is SO bad-mannered for a celebrity to come in after the curtain rises. They should come in before so that the audience can get THEIR bad manners out of the way before the play starts. I hate to say it, but it must have been American liberals in the audience who started the applause. Gawd, I HOPE it wasn't Brits! And the fact that the Clinton party upstaged two Dames (equivalent of male knights, as in "Sir"), makes it even worse. Dench and Smith are two of the most highly respected actresses in British theatre. What ill-mannered louts they all are!]

CINDY ADAMS

December 3, 2002 -- Bill & Hill upstage Haymarket's Dames

THERE is nothing like two Dames - Judi Dench and Maggie Smith - to attract the titled. In London, catching "A Breath of Life" Thanksgiving weekend, were future President Hillary, forever President Clinton, previous first kid Chelsea, onetime U.N. Ambassador Albright. It was musical boxes at the Haymarket. Minutes before curtain, Albright plopped into a box. Alone. Seconds before curtain she got hustled to a different box. The house went dark and in came Hillary. The curtain went up and in came Bill and Chel. Come intermission they got a standing ovation - the Clintons not the Dames - then the Box Trot began again. Chelsea and a girlfriend in one box, across the aisle Bill, Hill and Madeleine in another. Theatergoers were so busy watching America's royals they could barely watch Dames Judi and Maggie.

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2002

Answers

Note the professionalism of the two actresses that they didn't walk off stage.

or, are they Clinton supporters, too?

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2002


LOL! No. They would have been off their performance because they would have caught immediately that people were shuffling about in the boxes and taking attention away from the stage. They would have been pissed at the bad manners.

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2002

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