Wednesday, October 28, 2009

TODAY'S HOMELESS HERO


GO.  NOW.  READ THE TIMES’S EMPLOYMENT HORROR STORY/HEARTWARMING TEAR-JERKER ABOUT TERRI WHITE, A TONY AWARD NOMINEE AND CABARET PERFORMER, WHO SPENT NEARLY THREE MONTHS SLEEPING IN WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK WHEN SHE COULDN’T BOOK ENOUGH GIGS TO PAY RENT.  THE MAIN CULPRIT: “Heartfelt if campy renditions of American songbook classics were out. Spoofy if campy versions of ’80s pop were in.”  OH, GAGA, LOOK WHAT YOU’VE DONE!

LONG STORY SHORT: SHE’S BACK ON STAGE, SO IT’S ALL (KINDA/SORTA) BETTER NOW.  AND THE BEST PART IS THAT IN THE MIDST OF IT ALL, TERRI FOUND A LADY.  “In Florida, she met Donna Barnett, a stately 62-year-old jewelry designer — and, like Ms. White, a cigarette fiend, a fan of road trips and musicals and Maker’s Mark. The two fell in love, and moved in together.”

AN ELEGANT, PROTECTIVE SOUTHERN WOMAN WITH A FLARE FOR THE DRAMATIC AND A RIGHTFUL PLACE ON LIFETIME TELEVISION.  SOUNDS FAMILIAR…





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