BOYCOTT Kristin Chenoweth--she appears on The 700 Club?
BOYCOTT Kristin Chenoweth--she appears on The 700 Club?
#185Kristin Chenoweth
Posted: 4/5/05 at 10:14amMidtown, please forgive me for this, but what is the real source of your anger? Surely, it is not because someone appeared on a show with which you disapprove. This seems a little excessive.
"I am open, and I am willing,
For to be hopeless would seem so strange.
It dishonors those who go before us,
So lift me up to the light of change."
Holly Near
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#224Kristin Chenoweth
Posted: 4/5/05 at 5:35pm
I actually liked the interview. I'm really unreligious and I tend to get nervous when people start saying 'Jesus' to me(mainly because they usually are trying to convince me they're right and I'm wrong). I must admit I cringed when i heard Kristin was doing the 700 Club because I KNOW she is a very tolerant person and doesn't share Robertson's views and I thought it wasn't a smart move on her part to promote her CD on this show.
However, i thought she did pretty well with the interview, and her reaction to the 'so you're on the West Wing' question (like 'so you're playing in Satan's show') made me rethink her motivations for going on that show...
Maybe just MAYBE she felt that as a Christian she had a right to reach out to other Christians thru a HUGE TV show no matter how 'uncool' that would look to both 'sides' and she didn't want to hide under a rock like so many Christians do nowadays, therefore giving up the high grounds to hatemongers like Robertson!
As for her upcoming projects, I'm pretty sure her agent PRAYED somewhere that she wouldn't be asked about them and wouldn't mention playing a 'Catholic schoolgirl with issues' in Asphalt Beach (a movie she descbribed as Saved The musical meets Hairspray) or playing Anette Benning's lesbian lover (an adulterous minister's wife!) in Running With Scissors!
I'm pretty sure she didn't mean to offend anyone by being on that show (and since the issue of her supporting gay causes wasn't part of the interview, I'm sure she MEANT not to talk about it) and I'm also pretty sure she won't be invited to that show again after Running With Scissors is released!
You are giving her business motivations by coldly calculating the advantages of 'dropping' her gay fans to gain more Christian fans but you forget that by releasing a Christian CD NOW she also will attract glares and scowls later on from those very people you say she is courting right now!
In fact... I saw the exact same reaction as yours but in opposite direction I guess on the imdb.com board for Running With Scissors... Someone said 'How can she be so hypocritical?!! She says she is a Christian and plays on Women of Faith conferences and THEN she's playing a lesbian minister's wife?!!' Apparently that person was angry at Kristin for 'condoning this lifestyle' by playing that character... It actually made me laugh out loud just like the original post on this thread did... I guess we can never learn from others mistakes...
So if anything, she was honest and unafraid to EXPOSE herself both as a Christian and a gay supporter, therefore risking to lose both audiences! Talk about a businesswoman ,uh?!
just my 2 cents
"What book of rules says that theatre exists only within some ugly buildings crowded into one square-mile of New York City? Wherever there's magic and make-believe and an audience, there's theatre..."
#230Sorry--but...
Posted: 4/5/05 at 7:29pm
So, Midtown, are you saying that you as a "fan" feel slapped in the face? Because a true fan would know how to spell her name and would buy her album regardless of not being Christian.
So, if you are not a fan, why do you care?
"I am open, and I am willing,
For to be hopeless would seem so strange.
It dishonors those who go before us,
So lift me up to the light of change."
Holly Near
