{"id":140,"date":"2008-11-20T10:46:10","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T10:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=140"},"modified":"2008-11-20T10:46:10","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T10:46:10","slug":"how_not_to_handle_bad_reviewsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2008\/11\/how_not_to_handle_bad_reviewsh\/","title":{"rendered":"How not to handle bad reviews\/how to handle crazy people"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Playbill.com<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

\nPerhaps the most famous incident of his career was instigated by New
\nYork Shakespeare Festival impresario Joe Papp. In 1973, when Papp
\nlearned that Mr. [Clive] Barnes had given a poor review to David Rabe’s In the Boom Boom Room<\/i>
\n— Papp’s choice to open his reign as the new director of the Lincoln
\nCenter Theater program — Papp called the critic at home at 11:30 PM and
\ncursed him, yelling into the phone, “You think you’re going to get me?
\nWell, I am going to get you. I am going to get you.” That might have
\nbeen the end of the incident, except that Papp made the call in the
\npresence of a New York Times reporter who was writing a story about the
\nproducer.<\/p>\n

\nThe next day, a letter from Barnes was hand-delivered to Papp’s office.
\n“Our telephone conversation (or rather your monologue) last night
\ndisturbed me,” Mr. Barnes wrote. “Not merely because I am unaccustomed
\nto receiving obscene telephone calls, and certainly not because of your
\nviolently phrased defense of Rabe’s play — I would expect no less — but
\nbecause in your anger at our difference of opinion, you questioned my
\nintegrity. You told me that ‘You are out to get me.’ This is
\ntransparent nonsense. I admire you as one of the major forces in our
\ntheatre — and I imagine you have kept the press clippings to prove it.”\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Playbill.com: Perhaps the most famous incident of his career was instigated by New York Shakespeare Festival impresario Joe Papp. In 1973, when Papp learned that Mr. [Clive] Barnes had given a poor review to David Rabe’s In the Boom Boom Room — Papp’s choice to open his reign as the new director of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}