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Studio 54 Memories
00:05:25
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| Something before I forget. | |
| Just one of those things. | |
| Before we let the evening go, this is that one I saw. | |
| A very, very, very troubling play. | |
| What did you say? | |
| It's troubling? | |
| Troubling. | |
| It's a play that was called Call Me Izzy. | |
| And it was, wasn't that something? | |
| Wasn't it? | |
| It's not a feel-good. | |
| It's not a feel-good. | |
| It's not that, but it's Elizabeth's, uh, Jean Smart, rather. | |
| From Designing Women and... | |
| What's that one called? | |
| Hacks. | |
| What? | |
| Hacks, yes. | |
| At the Studio 54 Theater. | |
| It's Studio 54. The Studio 54. The famous drug den in Emporium. | |
| And it was... | |
| Hugh Jackman. | |
| Come on, Hugh. | |
| Live from New York with Love. | |
| Radio City Music Hall. | |
| Hugh, come on. | |
| Come on, Hugh. | |
| Come on. | |
| It's okay. | |
| But this was about 90-100 minutes. | |
| Gene Smart. | |
| One woman act. | |
| Absolutely incredible. | |
| Incredible. | |
| Incredible. | |
| That's all I wanted to say. | |
| So make it a point, at some particular time, to celebrate this thing called theater. | |
| I'm not sure how it's done in your town. | |
| If you ever come to New York and you ever get the chance to see something, there is nothing like it. | |
| This is one of the best. | |
| She's like 76 years old. | |
| And it's one of the, she is just absolutely incredible. | |
| And it's something which I want to explain. | |
| If we lose our... | |
| If we lose our theater, if we lose our arts, we lose everything. | |
| Everything. | |
| It's the only thing that separates us from the animals. | |
| We are spending our time wasting so much time talking about stuff. | |
| I mean, it's interesting. | |
| Somebody asked a question about the Diddy Trial. | |
| Do you really care about the Diddy Trial? | |
| Do you really care? | |
| Seriously. | |
| Let me say you do. | |
| Do you really? | |
| Say, do you care about tariffs? | |
| No, I don't care about tariffs. | |
| This is a different story. | |
| This is something which is so important. | |
| The thing that separates us from the animals is theater, the ability to express ourselves, how much money we put into the arts, not from the government, just us individually. | |
| STEAM, science, technology, education, arts and math. | |
| That's what we need to do. | |
| Have you ever seen a broad We saw Vanessa Redgrave one time in a one-woman act just sitting in a chair. | |
| That was it. | |
| It was unbelievable. | |
| You've got to experience a Broadway act. | |
| But Studio 54. The Studio 54. To see this, it was there in 1927. | |
| It was called the Gallo Opera Hall. | |
| Then in 1942, it became a studio for CBS. | |
| And to see the, you can almost feel the, what went on there. | |
| That was the epicenter. | |
| To walk in and to think that there were people, thousands of people dying, trying to get in with Rubelle working the door. | |
| And you're walking right in there. | |
| It was just, just incredible. | |
| If you get a chance, Do something to support the arts. | |
| I know this sounds corny. | |
| I don't think anybody cares. | |
| I don't think we really care about this. | |
| We're losing theater. | |
| We're losing film. | |
| It's going to be AI. | |
| I don't know if anybody even cares about that. | |
| I hope, for the love of all of us, for the love of God, I hope that we recognize the fact that this is serious business. | |
| I mean, we really absolutely We need it. | |
| That's all I want to say. | |
| There's nothing really, really deep about this. | |
| Because I think we are so, we're losing our sense of, we're not writing, we're not creating, we're not into poetry and the arts in museums, and all of those things which a society just understood. | |
| There was a time when Greek and Roman society put all of their money into architecture and buildings. | |
| Not because they wanted to build some governmental... | |
| But because of the artistry, the architecture was an art. | |
| We're losing this. | |
| We are losing it so much. | |
| And it is so difficult. | |
| I happened to look up. | |
| I was in the studio and I looked up and I saw this. | |
| See this typhoid, this big hyperglanular guy with a hat on backwards covered in tattoos. | |
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Never Forget This!
00:01:43
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| And this is the wit. | |
| This is our Mark Twain. | |
| That gut bucket is our Mark Twain. | |
| So sad. | |
| And I know nobody cares about this. | |
| And I realize this. | |
| And I know that I'm kind of wasting my time. | |
| But that's okay. | |
| That's okay. | |
| Just because I'm wasting my time doesn't mean it's not true. | |
| I mean, we as a society must understand something. | |
| We are not kidding around here. | |
| We can't lose this. | |
| Because once you lose it, it's gone. | |
| And there are people who are going to say, some people have never been to a play. | |
| Never been to a musical. | |
| Never. | |
| Sometimes you go maybe to a bad high school version of it, but at least somebody was trying to do something. | |
| That's all. | |
| That's all. | |
| I did a piece today, I hope you read it, on why Indian Americans and Indians are such great spellers, why they have destroyed and owned the art of the spelling bee. | |
| That pissed off a lot of people, which is great. | |
| It's one of those things which is absolutely critical. | |
| So in any event, dear and great friends, have a wonderful evening. | |
| Remember what I'm saying. | |
| Remember, because nobody's talking about this. | |
| We're talking about Epstein, and you know, that's important, and Diddy, and yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| But this is critical. | |
| If you lose the art, you lose everything, okay? | |
| Art is for the soul. | |
| Have a great day, my friends. | |
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| Don't forget Mrs. L. Follow her at Lin's Warriors. | |
| And don't forget, the monkey's dead. | |
| The show's over. | |
| Sue ya. | |