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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He just said what most people are thinking.[/quote]

You can have an opinion that is dismissive of ballet, if you want. Though I'd bet most people holding that opinion have never been to one outside The Nutcracker.

You do not have to say it as glibly and conclusively as he did (or at all). There's a difference between it not being your thing and it having no value. He expressed the former in a way that was so totally obnoxious. Esp from a guy who was promoting a movie about ping pong and who is dating a Bratz Doll.

Chalamet is not my cup of tea and never has been. I don't find him attractive or as great an actor as he thinks he is. So I def rolled my eyes when he said that.[/quote]

He said that no one cares about it. That doesn't mean that it doesn't have a value. It means that the people who should be making other people care about it are failing at their job.

Hollywood is full of people with tons of money. Why aren't school kids given free tickets to the ballet and opera every year? Why have artists allowed public schools to have so much testing that they can't take kids to ballet/opera shows on a regular basis? What is going on?[/quote]

Well, you’re asking these questions on a DC- centered site — just as our beloved and very community oriented Kennedy Center for the Arts is being closed for at least 2 years and possibly destroyed for good.  What is “going on” is the ways in which the people currently in power are expressing their values — for the Arts as well as for education.  Between DOGE and EOs , a lot of what was available when I was a kid going to the KC for free and low cost performances is being underfunded, devalued, and even destroyed.  If these experiences are happening in places like DC, I’m guessing that opportunities to “take kids to ballet/opera shows on a regular basis” are even less available in many other areas of the country. [/quote]

So why isn’t Hollywood, and the greater arts community, agitating about this? Why am I not seeing “a million artists march” on Washington? Why am I not hearing congressional candidates running on platforms supporting the arts? These people put their energy towards calling Chalamet an idiot, but where is the energy towards reversing what’s going on in the arts??[/quote]

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