This is from today's New York Times piece about the Harry Potter-Equus thing--which, I know, is old news:To make it clear what audiences are in for, at least in part, photographs of Mr. Radcliffe’s buff torso, stripped almost to the groin, have been used to advertise the production. It is as jarring as if, say, Anne Hathaway suddenly announced that instead of playing sweet-natured princesses and fashion-world ingénues, she wanted to appear onstage as a nude, murderous prostitute.
Umm no. That wouldn't be jarring at all, dumbass, as any of the bajillion people who saw Brokeback knows. In that film and in another one as well she goes topless. Bill Keller needs to get Sewell Chan to start writing for Arts & Leisure because that joint is falling apart. That, or make sure the fact-checkers' blow isn't being cut with Arm & Hammer.
