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Karen
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5/3/2002 | posted: 6/18/2004 at 11:04:58 AM ET
In Riedel's column today he offers to take Bernadette to lunch at the restaurant of her choice (because he had jokingly promised he would if Tonya Pinkins didn't win the Tony). Doesn't sound like a very appetizing suggestion to me, but if she doesn't accept, he'll probably get all bitchy about that too. Seems like her choice is either an unpleasant meal, or further provoking his ire. No matter what, I'm sure Reidel will figure out a way to milk the situation for the utmost personal publicity. Ugh!
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 PA Fan
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11/6/2003 | posted: 6/18/2004 at 11:28:24 AM ET
Bernadette should pass on the lunch but ask him to donate the money to a charity of HER choice!
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 SingOutAnnie
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Bradenton/Sarasota, FLA | posted: 6/18/2004 at 11:35:22 AM ET
Good plan, PA Fan.
I'd like to have him for lunch myself -- tied to a spit.
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Anonymous
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68.9.252.x | posted: 6/18/2004 at 11:45:15 AM ET
sorry, but who is Riedel?
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PTM
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Took him long enough and only after being ridiculed about not fessing up. And the idiot can't even get his own quote straight. In his May 21 garbage column on Murphy he wrote, "If Tonya Pinkins doesn't win the Tony Award this year, I'll buy Bernadette Peters lunch." Now he's trying to take her to lunch which is what he's wanted to do all along. He's so dumb and low that in the NY Magazine profile, he basically admits that if people meet with him, he won't attack them.
If he was really serious, he could simply send her a gift certificate to a wonderful restaurant and she could auction it off
PTM
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Karen
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To Anon, Michael Riedel writes a gossip column covering the theatre scene for the Murdoch tabloid New York Post. He's quite vicious, politically far-right, and apparently has a pretty severe drinking problem. Needless to say, he absolutely loves the spotlight. For the past couple of years he's been strenuously attempting to publicly feud with Bernadette Peters. To his eternal chagrin, a feud has never materialized, because Bernadette has never given any indication she knows he exists.
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 Christine-NYC
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| posted: 6/18/2004 at 1:25:03 PM ET
Kind of reminds me of that Duplex show that was written about him and Bernadette. "Bernadette and the Butcher of Broadway." lol He abuses her in his columns, but in reality he might just be her biggest fan. hahaha
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 Sister Rose
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NYC | posted: 6/18/2004 at 2:24:21 PM ET
Christine - Was there really a show "Bernadette and the Butcher of Broadway"? Tell all!
"Anyone who stays home is DEAD!"
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 Mandy
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I don't think she should go with him either but then who knows what he will write if she declines his offer. Why would ANYBODY want to eat with some who has been nothing but rude and ignorant to them. I am sure that he would put some ridiculous spin on it to make himself look better.
The charity offer is a great idea.
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Christine-NYC
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| posted: 6/18/2004 at 3:03:19 PM ET
Indeed Sister Rose  It was an Off-Off Broadway Show last Summer:
Butcher of Broadway Discussion
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Sister Rose
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Thanks Christine - It sounds like it was really good.
I kind of hope that she does go to lunch with him just to show him that she is above his pettiness!
"Anyone who stays home is DEAD!"
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 leebee
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| posted: 6/18/2004 at 3:19:44 PM ET
You know, the first time I saw something written by that Reidel character, I seriously thought that it was some sort of parody. It never occurred to me that someone would seriously say those sort of things in a theater column. Boy was I naive.
Bernadette should tell him to skip the lunch and spend a couple of hours washing dogs for Broadway Barks.
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Christine-NYC
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| posted: 6/18/2004 at 3:53:45 PM ET
Well, I still look at anything written in the NY Post as a parody.
I consider it to be a Tabloid as opposed to a News Paper.
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Sister Rose
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Christine is right! It's practially the Inquirer!
"Anyone who stays home is DEAD!"
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leebee
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| posted: 6/18/2004 at 4:50:51 PM ET
It's funny - Bernadette was on Dave Letterman's show back in the 80's, and she brought along a copy of the Post. She read something out of it and then she and Dave had a big laugh sort of making fun of the Post in general. I've got that on tape somewhere....
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Christine-NYC
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| posted: 6/18/2004 at 5:04:27 PM ET
LOL Yeah, I saw that show.
Dave mentioned something he had read in the Post, and Bernadette quipped back in a sarcastic way with, "Oh, well if it was in the Post then it MUST be true." LOL Classic.
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