Re: max
DaGurl,
Actually, everyone here had a giggle at ShaeLynn's expense with her slippery sliding dress. And earlier in the thread, Tonya has taken heavy hits for everything she ever wore. This is a joke thread, and gives people a chance to be funny and vent a little.
Usually North Americans get more jabs for costuming here than non, because we get to see all their costumes, not just those at major events. For examples, refer to Fetal Attraction's joking thread about an interview with Sasha's fashion designer, a Miss Holly Would. There is also an entire thread devoted to Sasha's Nat's 2003 LP dress, which came in for a lot of criticism. In the Exhibitions thread under US Nationals, you will find Scott and Dulebohn catching it for the tasteless Pink Panther routine and costume. No one had anything good to say about Michelle's yellow outfit, and Fetal said that her LP looked like she had spilled oatmeal down her front (but he didn't care, because the skate was marvelous) So when it comes to costuming, we are equal opportunity goofers here.
So welcome to the thread and to Golden Skate.
But are you sure it was Brian Boitano's 88 LP costume that you didn't like? It was Brian Orser who had the red bellhop costume.
On the WTC, that's a tough question. You need to know that Sarah Hughes lived where she could see the WTC every day until it fell, and a large number of people from her community died, probably including people she actually knew. So for her to do an encore exhibition number that included laying a floral display on the graves of those people was wholly appropriate. And the way she did it was wonderful, but the people here in the media only broadcast this exhibition in the middle of the night (at least during the Olympics), and I wonder how many people here have actually seen it. It was not featured, possibly because the media wondered about its tastefulness.
Personally, I didn't think Belbin and Agosto's Sarajevo program was appropriate, although I have never before posted to criticize it here, and I always thought of it in my mind as the skating nebbish program. I felt they didn't have the emotional depth in that program to portray the right tone for so tragic a situation.
And as to L&A, no I don't think their WTC program worked, and done in Salt Lake, with the tragedies so raw in people's mind (only 5 months after), and the horrible images so clear, and what they recreated was people in rags running from the towers and the towers themselves coming down in their final pose, I felt it was in the worst of bad taste. To put this on neutral territory, it would be like Americans going to Tokyo and dancing to "On the Eve of Destruction", using costumes with mushroom shaped clouds on their fronts and recreating the Hiroshima atomic bomb explosion. And then announcing the name of the program is Time for Peace (which it was, because Japan was defeated. ) Just not done. It is not that the WTC is a forbidden subject to non Americans. There is just a way to do it and a way not to do it. And even more important, a time and place to do it. No one complains that Vica dances to Gone With the Wind, which is another American tragedy, the Civil War. It is long ago enough that no one minds although they kvetch that her costume is not in period is some way. The program is perfectly appropriate.
But this is an opinion thread, and please come early and often and post. We need people to stir up discussion!
Welcome,
dpp
