Posted on 04/23/2012 12:51:29 PM PDT by TSgt
A man learned the hard way that you don’t take a cell phone call when Princess Leia is preforming.
Carrie Fisher, who portrayed Princess Leia in the “Star Wars” movies, had her one-woman performance of “Wishful Drinking” interrupted twice (you read right, twice) Saturday at the Victoria Theatre by a cell phone user.
A man near the front row apparently couldn’t resist the urge to answer two calls.
Fisher laughed it off when the man answered the phone in the show’s first act, asking if his wife was in labor or something, Diane Schoeffler-Warren, a spokeswoman for the Victoria Association, said.
She was not in a laughing mood when he answered it again in the second act, Warren said.
The man left the theater with Fisher and her sharp tongue on his heels.
“She told him how rude he was,” Warren said. “She handled it with humor, but at the same time, she called him out.”
To Fisher’s apparent surprise, the man later returned to his seat, another audience member told me.
After the show, Fisher said that was the most disrespectful thing she’d ever experienced at a performance, Warren said.
Warren found the whole thing puzzling.
“It is so obnoxious that someone thinks they are so important that they have to answer their cell phone at a show that other people paid to see and that they paid to see. And to do it twice, ” Warren said. ” I don’t know any one that important.”
This isn’t the first time noise at a performance has caused controversy in recent months.
Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Neal Gittleman bounced a wailing baby from a performance in January.
A crying baby is one thing. A jerk on a cell phone is quite another.
I’m no fan of Carrie Fisher, but I certainly can’t blame her for chiding the guy for taking two cell phone calls. If it absolutely can’t wait, take it outside.
Cell phones = Public nuisance. And, yes, I do have one. Just another tool of the rude.
a guy had one go off at the Met and he was quite publicly humiliated. Even written up in the paper.
So I guess taboos are effective checks on social behavior.
But don't tell that to all the leftists whom it benefits.
Not Guilty.
Eh. Phones aren’t public nuisances ... people are public nuisances.
SnakeDoc
She has access to a blow torch.
“I find your lack of ‘vibrate’ disturbing.”
Then. Now...?
A friend asked me out to lunch.
He kept answering his cell phone. It was text messages.
I walked out and waited in the car.
If someone can’t spend 20 minutes without a cell phone, they better marry it.
“Princess Lay-a”
Wishful Drinking is a hilarious one-woman show/stand-up. But it is an almost intimate setting with her talking about the most intimate details of her troubled (and funny) life.
I would want that man's name found out - to have his name pilloried - and any season passes revoked - and never allowed in any venue where civilized people gather again.
“A friend asked me out to lunch.
He kept answering his cell phone. It was text messages.
I walked out and waited in the car.”
Amazing to watch people in eating establishments anymore. Three or four at a table eating and no conversations between any of them because they are on their phones. Talk about becoming insulated. Was in an airport bar recently and was sitting at the bar along with thirty or so others. Not one single person was talking to another customer. Every single one except me was on their phones. Never been to a bar that was dead queit except for the piped in music.
She didn't sign on to be 25 year old hot for the rest of her life! And good on her for not trying and looking like the Joker aka Callista Gingrich - or Dolly Parton.
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And the one who brings a baby to a public event is the biggest jerk of them all. |
I hear she will be staring in the next installment of Star Wars - as Princess the Hut.
Not to excuse rude people that answer cell phones but if she did that to me I might say...”Hey carrie it’s Chris Dodd on the line...” LOL....
Hollywood types are so important, no dare interrupt their play acting.
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