{"id":495,"date":"2009-07-22T13:58:25","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T20:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.colliertech.org\/cj\/?p=495"},"modified":"2009-07-30T15:36:57","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T22:36:57","slug":"matthew-broderick-broke-the-music-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Broderick broke The Music Man."},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reading Lefty’s recent blog post<\/a> and was reminded (by way of a certain scene<\/a>) of being pissed off by Broderick’s s\/egg\/globe\/ in the 2003 production<\/a> of The Music Man. I was going to put the following in the comments, but I decided not to in order to keep the conversation on topic :)<\/p>\n

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\nWhich reminds me of a tangential blather. Did any of you see the recent re-make of Music Man with Matthew Broderick? Do you recall how he changed the script to refer to Columbus and the *globe* instead of Columbus and the *egg*?<\/p>\n

That really irritated me. You can’t see it in the above picture, but while I was in the pit and waiting for our cues, I was coincidently reading Larry Wall’s Camel book. I was so confused about Harold Hill’s reference to “Columbus’ conception of the egg” until I read the following:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/docstore.mik.ua\/orelly\/perl3\/cookbook\/prf2_01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

Anyway…\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

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