The AP’s television writer Frazier Moore has picked up the story of "Farnsworth’s" postponed Broadway debut, as reported in the inventor’s home town paper, the Fort Wayne (IN) Journal Gazette. Another lousy break for Philo Farnsworth. Farnsworth is the chap who invented television 80 years ago, then was cheated out of his due credit, fame […]
The Asbury Park Press offers this story about actor Michael Mulheren and how he is handling the strike: "It’s just insane," Mulheren said as he was on his way to pick up his two children from a pre-school in the Red Bank area. "This could be a long one because the stagehands union has never
While the opening of The Farnsworth Invention remains in limbo due to the stagehands strike on Broadway, the New York Times offers a profile of Alexandra Wilson, the actress who landed the role of Pem Farnsworth: “She’s great,” Ms. Wilson said of her character. “I’m totally in love with her. Not to sound like a
The opening of The Farnsworth Invention on Broadway has been postponed until the stagehands settle their strike with producers. But the PR machine was cranked up to fulll volume last week, making the cast and crew available to whatever media outlets were ready to soft-peddle the play’s "even handed" treatment of the subject matter. Nevertheless,
And Once again, the false premise justifies the false conclusion: Blogger: Adventures in and out of Mainstream Media The play was rather revisionist about the life of David Sarnoff, humanizing him, and making him almost sympathetic, or at least comprehensible. He wasn’t so bad really, it was just that the Cossacks burned down his house
Here’s a blog post from Naiomi’s acting journal that somehow manages to capture all the upsides and downsides to Aaron Sorkin’s Broadway play. I hope the author will forgive me for quoting it almost in its entirety, with comments: So yesterday my acting class went and saw “The Farnsworth Invention.” I loved it! It was
I suspect we’re going to be seeing more assessments of The Farnsworth Invention like this one, as more people come away from the play wondering how much of it has any connection to anything that really happened: In addition, I felt a little cheated to learn that a key scene in the play is a
Link: TheStar.com Sorkin pens Broadway play. Before Sorkin gave us Sports Night and then The West Wing, he became obsessed with Philo Farnsworth, the alcoholic loser and electronics genius.
The dramatic focus of Aaron Sorkin’s play The Farnsworth Invention revolves around the idea that Farnsworth had a "light problem." His television camera requires too much light, he anguishes over the solution that must be "right under our noses," and then pretty much gives up when Zworykin comes up with the solution. This woefully simplistic
The official "opening" of The Farnsworth Invention on Broadway is still ten days away, so there won’t be any full-scale reviews of the play until next week, but that hasn’t stopped the New York Times from running a lengthy profile of the playwright: The two men never met but clashed in courtrooms over rights and
