TERRENCE MCNALLY DEAD

No news reports yet but Chris Jones is a leading theater critic at the Chicago Tribune....a legit source.

Broadway dot com

Damn!

He wrote The Ritz after seeing Rita Moreno doing "Everything's Coming Up Roses" as Googie at a party.

SHIT

Shit just gets realer and realer.

I’m devastated

One of the great American playwrights. RIP

So sorry to hear this. True loss for the theatre. RIP.

Are we sure it wasn’t because of Tyne Daly’s Maria Callas?

He gave us great plays and great male nudity.

This is because the republican administration decided to tell everyone all is well while they boarded supplies and dropped their stock.

Everyone who dies should get justice.

His book for Ragtime was a masterpiece. Love his plays so much. A very kind man. He will be missed.

RIP. He was so talented.

Another big loss to the world of arts and entertainment. Rest In Peace, sir.

I enjoyed his plays. He was very talented. So sorry to hear this

Sad! Let's not let the cure be worse than the disease. America will be open for business next Monday.

R18 Wrong time.

He could have written more plays that generated revenue for Broadway! Now he's dead, asshole Trump!

This is very sad. He was a national treasure. And, despite his health issues he was still writing plays.

This is why it is infuriating when people are so cavalier about the virus, or going out to socialize, or “it’s just going to kill some boomers.”

Real disease. Real people. Real consequences. Condolences for his husband .

NYT (yes I know paywall)

And McNally wasn't a boomer. He was the generation prior to that.

WaPo

Every Act Of Life.

Well, that sucks.

Does this make him the most famous or highest profile person to have died so far?

R26 I believe so

Heather Headley speaks

So young and no underlying conditions. RIP dude.

no paywall, bitchez

Very sad, but not surprising. NYC is a Corona hotspot, and McNally was a super-high-risk case: 81 years old, lung cancer survivor (so probably decades-long smoker) and with COPD. Honestly, the flu or a common cold could easily have done him in.

My God. I fear he'll be the first of many - and there were no rumors or announcements about him either.

Along those lines......where is Giuliani?

Nothing from Rita yet. What about Chita?

He died in Sarasota Florida, you freaking dumbass.

[quote] And McNally wasn't a boomer. He was the generation prior to that.

True, though I didn’t say he was. I was referencing the supposedly “clever,” but really stupid and inaccurate little memes that it is only boomers (as a shorthand for “old people”) who are going to die from the virus.

He also had a bit part in "9 to 5" playing a policeman. I remembered thinking he was quite handsome in it.

poor thing, hadn't realized he was ill

Oh, this is so terribly sad. A wonderful playwright who was equally at home in plays as he was in musicals.

Don’t worry - he’s gonna have the best ever re-erection - he’ll be up and at ‘em by Easter!

R31: He died in sarasota where he spends the winter.

Mona Foot, Lucia Bose, Terrence McNally.

That's the 3 (showbiz celebs) for today.

r31, most people who get lung cancer are nit smokers. In fact, the rates of lung cancer have risen even as the numbers of smokers have plummeted. Smokers tend to, in general, engage in more risk-taking behaviours than non-smokers, which leads to higher rates of mouth and throat infections from oral sex.

R43, that is a load of horse shit:

“In the United States, cigarette smoking is linked to about 80% to 90% of lung cancer deaths. ... People who smoke cigarettes are 15 to 30 times more likely to get lung cancer or die from lung cancer than people who do not smoke. Even smoking a few cigarettes a day or smoking occasionally increases the risk of lung cancer.”

There will be a Crisco Oil party tonight in his honor. Room 419. Pass it on. Bring Joey. Don't bring Chuck.

[quote] He died in Sarasota Florida, you freaking dumbass.

Yes, but he and his husband just went there about a week ago or so, so it's likely McNally contracted it before he left for Florida or while traveling. What does it matter, anyway? The man is dead and Trump and McConnell still draw breath

The Bernie Bros/MAGAts/Olegs have gotten their new talking points: kill the elderly.

The 2018 documentary, [bold]Terrence McNally: Every Act of Life[/bold], can be streamed on Amazon Prime. It's well worth watching.

RIP

r48 Check out R25

My favorite Texan! RIP!

This pose is funny.

I didn't know young TM was such a lissome lad.

Trump: "Hate, Cowardice, Sociopathy."

My sister-in-law has never smoked a day in her life. Neither did her husband, so there was no second-hand smoke. But she is dying from lung cancer, so it happens.

R53, that's an anecdote. It's not science or statistics.

I predicted anyone with HIV or AIDS would not survive the more serious strain on the virus ("S"?).

He was a million fucking years old and had underlying issues. He would have died from a hang nail. I know him and his husband Tom very well and love them both. It's tough but don't let it run away with you.

R56, he wasn't THAT old. Olivia de Havilland is old enough to be his mom and she's still kicking

He was 81. He was old, but not as old as you make it seem.

Good grief, R56. Is that what you’re writing on your condolence notes?

GASP!

It's sad that Terrence died. It's much sadder that he has been so terribly ill with lung cancer and COPD. Long before coronavirus hit the Great White Way, Terrence's death had been foretold.

I'm having AIDS Crisis flash-backs and it's not good.

Interesting about those HIV+ being more susceptible....I never thought of it and that is chilling.

Great, you mean this virus might kill off the gays? That's just what I hoped for

Sorry, Mike, all those boys you’ve blown will probably survive.

So sad to hear. A San Francisco newscaster today referred to “Love! Valour! Compassion!” as “Love! Velour! Compassion!”

Why do you assume Terrence was HIV+?

Has anyone checked on Larry Kramer?

[quote] A San Francisco newscaster today referred to “Love! Valour! Compassion!” as “Love! Velour! Compassion!”

So did the ticket agent who sold me my ticket over the phone in 1995. She sounded just like Fran Fine, to boot.

Jesus Christ r56. Are you sure you “love them both”?

RIP. His sister, Rand, makes some terrific maps.

I ain't ever heard of him. Was he really well known?

When he accepted his Lifetime Achievement Award at last year's TONY Awards, he began with

"Lifetime Achievement - and not a moment too soon."

You can't entirely blame people for mispronouncing "Valour!"

McNally opted for the British spelling of the word for the title of his American play. The confusion starts squarely with Terrence McNally. The rest of us just had to deal with it.

Lard! Veloute! Consomme!

"Has anyone checked on Larry Kramer?"

No.

Somebody tried but he yelled at them to go away.

with the late Zoe Caldwell

He's dead but Trump still lives.....

Did he ever explain why he went for the Brit spelling of "Valour" instead of "valor" in his title? Is it because the characters are so pretentious?

I read that "valour" got a "u" because James and John were British. Kind of random if it's true.

R80, because that is the way it is spelled in the original poem from which the title is derived.

Has he checked in yet with Wendy Wasserstein in Hetero Heaven?

Is he the guy that invented maps?

We've already had that joke, r84, and the one who did it first did it funnier.

[quote]So sad to hear. A San Francisco newscaster today referred to “Love! Valour! Compassion!” as “Love! Velour! Compassion!”

I've posted this at various places over the years but back in the 1980s the woman in line ahead of me at the Times Square TKTS booth asked whether they had seats for Barefoot in the Park with George.

So was he selling out when he did Frankie and Johnny making them a straight couple? Has it ever been cast with same sex actors?

How would he be selling out?

I've rewatched, the 2018 documentary, "Terrence McNally: Every Act of Life". Damn you, COVID-19.

R53

Christopher Reeve's wife died from lung cancer, and she never smoked either.

Terrence was close to dead for the past year.

LOL R66

Sounds like something from The Simpsons

Will the rich lawyer husband get all the play royalties?

Just watched 'Terrence McNally: Every Act of Life' for the first time, don't really know much about him so I thought I'd start somewhere. They lauded him as being a great playwright and a very important figure to gay history. The theme throughout the doc was the importance of being out and proud. During the AIDS epidemic his famous ex-lover was dying but never made it public or wanted anyone to know that he was gay. McNally, supposedly being out at that time, took this opportunity to emphasize the importance of coming out and being proud of who you are the next minute we're hearing about him fucking his fag hag while his ex-lover and every other gay man around him was dying. Seriously WTF?? Put me off I didn't bother to finish the doc. Looked it up to see if it was actually true, yes for three years he went back into the closet (voluntarily, apparently) with that fat hideous creature, and his only concern about it was the fat frau didn't keep it a secret LOL. He chalked it up to as being "one of the surprises of life" he also shames gay men for staying closeted and said something like gay men staying closeted nowadays is their fault and not society's problem. (Eye roll) I just can't with this dumb dead bitch. I don't have the patience for it anymore. Sorry for rant.

I'm sorry he couldn't be the 110% gold star homosexual you needed him to be, #94.

I didn't watch any of his plays either. He seems like a lot of mediocre American writers, nobody really knows who he is so they probably wanted to sell on his sexuality to give the documentary a boost.

R95, not even the issue, and he's likely bi since he chose to fuck a fat cunt for 3 years, while his lover was dying and kept it all a secret.

R96, right. His plays aren't remotely interesting nor ground-breaking, guess they were relying on his same sex appeal to make it interesting.