MIN:SEC “NOH'S WAY: BE AN HONEST CRITIC” PODCAST
INTERVIEW WITH DAVID NOH
INTERVIEWER: MARILYN SOKOL
PRODUCER: LEHMAN COLLEGE MEDIA RELATIONS
OFFICE
DURATION: 21 MINUTES 4 SECONDS
00:00 [MUSIC]
VINCE BRACY:
This is Vince Bracy, a student at Lehman
College. David Noh was born and raised in
Hawaii and attended Punahou Academy, the
same school as President Obama—although at a
different time. Noh fulfilled his dream of
coming to New York, trying his hand at
acting and ultimately finding his calling in
writing.
Today, he is a critic and covers the arts
and entertainment scene for several
publications, as well as his own blog. In
this segment, he is interviewed by award-
winning actress Marilyn Sokol. She's a
professor in Lehman's Department of 2
Journalism, Communication and Theatre.
00:39 MARILYN SOKOL:
Hi, everybody. I'm Marilyn Sokol, the host
of The Working Professional, and our student
body is here today to meet and greet our
guest, Mr. David Noh, noted journalist,
showbiz journalist. (APPLAUSE)
DAVID NOH:
Thank you.
MARILYN SOKOL:
So, David, you have a blog (CHUCKLE),
www.nohway.wordpress.com, yes?
DAVID NOH:
Excellent, yeah.
MARILYN SOKOL:
And what do you do on that blog?
DAVID NOH:
The way the journalism profession is going,
print is drying up, as you probably all
know. And broadcasts can be limited. And
of course, the blog permits you to write
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about what you wanna write and say what you
wanna say-- with no interference. And in
that way, it's wonderful, I think.
01:32 MARILYN SOKOL:
I wanna talk about your being from Hawaii,
your being Korean, how you felt growing up
in Hawaii because we have people here from
different countries.
DAVID NOH:
Sure. I was born and raised in Hawaii. I
went to the same school as Barack Obama,
actually. It was--
MARILYN SOKOL:
Pretty exciting--
DAVID NOH:
--private school called Punahou that was
started by missionaries. And like him, if
you read his autobiography, I felt like a
fish out of water. The Hawaiian kids and
the white kids were very cool. But if you
were Asian or not a jock or that usual
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thing, or artsy or whatever, you know,
you're out in the cold with the cliques.
02:09 You can imagine what it was like for Barack
Obama, being the only black kid there,
where, like, already that was, scarce in
Hawaii to begin with. And I was one of
those weird kids that dreamed about coming
to New York. Everyone else is outside
surfing and playing. And I'm reading, like,
Variety (CHUCKLE), "Wow, what did Hair make
this week?" You know? (CHUCKLE) In the box
office, you know?
MARILYN SOKOL:
So at that time, you wanted to be an actor.
DAVID NOH:
I really wanted to be a writer, actually--
MARILYN SOKOL:
Oh, really?
DAVID NOH:
--more-- yeah, I always wanted to do what I
ended up doing, but I had to go a long way
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around.
02:37 MARILYN SOKOL:
So you had to act--
DAVID NOH:
And I dreamed of coming to New York. And
when-- I was a teenager, my parents said,
"Okay, we're gonna go to New York and you
get to go. And since you know about the
theater, you get to pick five shows for
every night we're there.”
MARILYN SOKOL:
Yeah.
DAVID NOH:
“And you get to see.” And it was a time
where Broadway was, like, at its last kinda
great peak. So I got to see Hair, like the
original production of Hair. I got to see--
Follies, famous-- Stephen Sondheim show, No,
No, Nanette-- A Funny Thing Happened on the
Way to the Forum.
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MARILYN SOKOL:
Oh, golly.
DAVID NOH:
And I went by myself 'cause they weren't
interested to see a show called The Beggar's
Opera. But in this--
03:13 MARILYN SOKOL:
--who you saw.
DAVID NOH:
--in this cast, was Marilyn Sokol. (LAUGH)
Can you believe it? This hot, young,
Marilyn Sokol. (WHISTLES) (LAUGH) And it
was this-- it was the sexiest production I
had ever seen.
MARILYN SOKOL:
Well, the costumes, you know, cause
cleavage, you know.
DAVID NOH:
It was completely raunchy. And all you guys
did was grab each other's crotches for three
hours.
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MARILYN SOKOL:
Really?
DAVID NOH:
You don't remember that at all?
03:37 MARILYN SOKOL:
I didn't do that, no.
DAVID NOH:
You did it. (LAUGH) I remember, like, my
eyes were bugging out, you know?
MARILYN SOKOL:
By the way, I have to tell you something
that occurred while we were doing the
Beggar's Opera. You know on days when you
only had an evening performance, the costume
people would come in and either clean the
costumes or refresh them. So, one of the
stage managers came in one day. And on the
stage was a costume person, you know, in my
dress, going (MAKES SINGING NOISES). He was
fired. (LAUGH)
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DAVID NOH:
Oh, he-- he (CHUCKLE) was fired.
MARILYN SOKOL:
Yeah, he-- yes. (LAUGH)
DAVID NOH:
So, nothing's changed, basically in
(CHUCKLE) all these years.
04:23 MARILYN SOKOL:
No, for some reason, I thought everyone
understood, you know, that it was a he.
Okay, so then you went--
DAVID NOH:
Back to Hawaii and I just schemed and
dreamed any way I could get back to New
York. And of course that was school, right?
So, 18, I graduate. And I was off that
rock. I spent a year or two in California
and said, "No, this ain't happening, you
know? I should've just come to New York
directly." And I came here. I enrolled at
The New School 'cause I had, like, no,
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preparation at all. I just knew I wanted to
be here desperately.
And my first week I was applying for the
registration. This guy taking the
information said, "Are you an actor?" And I
said, "Well, I could be." And he said,
"Well, I have a show that I'm desperate to
find an Asian actor." Now, this was 20 or
more years ago. And there were not that
many Asian people. If you're an Asian
actor, you got cast whether you had
experience or anything because they were so
desperate, and I got--
MARILYN SOKOL:
Yeah.
DAVID NOH:
--cast in my first Off-Broadway show like
that.
05:16 MARILYN SOKOL:
And what-- do you recall the title?
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DAVID NOH:
It was called A Mass Murder in the Balcony
of the Old Ritz Rialto.
MARILYN SOKOL:
Oh. (LAUGH) Editing was not the strong
suit.
DAVID NOH:
It was a musical set in this broken-down old
sleazy movie house that they used to have on
42nd Street before they cleaned it up--
MARILYN SOKOL:
Yeah, they were porno, actually. (CHUCKLE)
DAVID NOH:
Kinda porno, right? Homeless people would
be there and prostitutes would take their
tricks there. And these guys had this idea
to do this show about the people who hung
out in that theater. (CHUCKLE) And they had
a role for a young Asian drama student.
05:51 MARILYN SOKOL:
And want-- yes.
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DAVID NOH:
Which is (CHUCKLE) what I was. So it was
really weird. But I realized early on that
I would get a lot of shows. I would
audition really well. And also there
weren't that many actors around. But I
would hate being in the shows. I would
really dread it. I would have stage fright.
Like, even today, once you get on, you're
fine. So, it took me a long time to realize
that my first love was watching acting,
observing it, analyzing, you know, taking
the joy from other people who really loved
what they were doing.
MARILYN SOKOL:
Very important to find that which propels
you. You know? That which makes you wanna
get up in the morning and do what you do,
right?
DAVID NOH:
Yeah.
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MARILYN SOKOL:
So then you studied, though, at Stella
Adler.
DAVID NOH:
Yeah. Yeah, I studied her scene class. And
she would walk in about 15 to half an hour
late to the (CHUCKLE) class, like a queen,
right?
06:43 MARILYN SOKOL:
Dressed very flamboyantly.
DAVID NOH:
Always dressed to the hilt.
MARILYN SOKOL:
Yes.
DAVID NOH:
Would sit in this big straw-- you know those
straw chairs that look like a throne, you
know, you get at, like Pier 1, you know?
(CHUCKLE) That was her chair.
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MARILYN SOKOL:
Yeah, wicker, wicker.
DAVID NOH:
And she had one class where she said, "I
want everyone to come up with a song that
they wanna sing for the first time." We'd
done all this Shakespeare and stuff. And
these kids came up and were singing, like,
the worst crap I ever heard. It was like
The Impossible Dream, really corny. So I
went up and I said, "I wanna sing this
Gershwin song called 'S Wonderful." Know
the song? (SINGING WITH MARILYN) 'S
wonderful, 's marvelous, exactly.
07:15 MARILYN SOKOL:
(STILL SINGING) You should care for me.
DAVID NOH:
And it's a sweet little song. And I went up
there. And I think she was so happy to hear
a decent song that she said, "I want you to
sing it again with me." And she must've
been about 75, 80. And she said, "I'm gonna
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sit with you. Sing it to me." And she
turned into a 16-year-old girl before my
eyes, like, being courted for the first
time, you know, by her boyfriend. And I
said, "Wow, that's really, really special."
MARILYN SOKOL:
But it still didn't infect you.
DAVID NOH:
It didn't infect me.
MARILYN SOKOL:
No, no. No. (CHUCKLE)
DAVID NOH:
Because in the office was this ad. And it
said, "Wanted: Actor, singer, dancer-types
to work in a new disco opening up." And I
thought, "Wow." This is the years where
disco was really big, like, late '70s. And
the disco was called Studio 54. (CHUCKLE)
And I don't know if you heard of that place.
08:06 MARILYN SOKOL:
Drug-infested.
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DAVID NOH:
You went there, right?
MARILYN SOKOL:
Once.
DAVID NOH:
Once. (LAUGH)
MARILYN SOKOL:
Twice. Twice.
DAVID NOH:
And that was a whole sidetrack. But it was
through Stella Adler that I got this job. I
just walked in. And all they were looking
for were cute kids. They didn't care if you
had never poured a drink or bussed table in
your whole life. And so I got the
experience of being at Studio 54 on the
opening night and seeing that whole world be
invented.
08:34 MARILYN SOKOL:
And you liked it? You found it exciting?
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DAVID NOH:
For one night.
MARILYN SOKOL:
Oh, one night?
DAVID NOH:
And then one more night after that.
MARILYN SOKOL:
Oh, I see. Oh, you're so clean-cut.
DAVID NOH:
No, no, you know, yeah, well, I had this
really uptight Asian upbringing in Hawaii
with this--
08:48 MARILYN SOKOL:
Oh, I'm so happy.
DAVID NOH:
No, I would be dead, now. Margaux
Hemingway.
MARILYN SOKOL:
Yes.
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DAVID NOH:
She was a top model of the day. She was,
like, had her own perfume and everything.
She's the most gorgeous girl. And she
showed up at the beginning of the night.
And nobody-- it was like high school.
Nobody wanted to dance. Everyone was
standing on the sidelines, waiting for the
first person. And she had evidently taken
hustle lessons with her husband who was this
hamburger king, Errol Wetson his name was.
(CHUCKLE) They had taken hustle lessons.
And the D.J. put on Marvin Gaye's Got to
Give it Up. I'll never forget that. And
they hit the dance floor. And they were so
hot together. And everyone said, "Okay,
it's cool. Now, we can all dance." And had
they not done it, it would probably have
been the biggest flop of all time. No one
would have been there. But I remember
seeing at the end of the night, she was so
fabulous in the beginning. But they carried
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her out, literally passed out of her mind.
09:33 MARILYN SOKOL:
From drugs and drinking.
DAVID NOH:
And she eventually O.D.'d.
MARILYN SOKOL:
She died.
DAVID NOH:
Maybe ten years later.
MARILYN SOKOL:
That's Ernest Hemingway's grandchild.
DAVID NOH:
And that said something to me, so then it--
it sent me back to what I had come for. And
I said, you know what?
09:46 MARILYN SOKOL:
To write.
DAVID NOH:
I need to write, and it was hard getting
started with that, 'cause of course, no one
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wants to hire you until you have your first
clip, until you have your first published
piece. It was so funny. It's so weird. I-
- I never wanted to rely on my parents. To
this day, my dad says, "I still don't know
what you're doing." (LAUGH) You know, I
mean. And it's been 25 years--
MARILYN SOKOL:
He's a critic, by the way.
DAVID NOH:
Yeah. And-- but he is a big gambler.
(CHUCKLE) And he goes to Las Vegas (CHUCKLE)
every month, like a lot of Koreans do. And
he happened to be throwing craps next to a
guy who runs the Jerry Lewis--
MARILYN SOKOL:
Telethon?
DAVID NOH:
The telethon, yeah.
10:19 MARILYN SOKOL:
Yeah.
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DAVID NOH:
Who knew a guy who had a magazine.
MARILYN SOKOL:
Yeah.
DAVID NOH:
So he said, "Oh, my kid wants to be a film
critic." So it was really through my dad--
and it's all connections. You can be the
greatest actor. You can be the greatest
writer. But until you schmooze, as they
call it, and network--
MARILYN SOKOL:
It's network, yeah.
DAVID NOH:
--and make that connection, however you do
it, through your parents, through your
friends, through yourself, whatever, on the
street, and so one clip led slowly, slowly.
And now I write for a bunch of magazines and
have my blog and that's it.
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10:47 MARILYN SOKOL:
Let's talk about the trials and tribulations
associated with casting because you
experienced it. And also we were talking
about someone we both know and think the
world of, Jon Peterson.
DAVID NOH:
Right. He's a triple threat, sing, dance,
act like a dream. He's been cast--
MARILYN SOKOL:
Brilliant.
DAVID NOH:
--every big show.
MARILYN SOKOL:
English, English.
DAVID NOH:
In England and in New York for the last 30
years. And I interviewed him just
yesterday. And I said, "Why aren't you a
bigger star?" And he says, "I cannot get
cast. I cannot get work in this city." And
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I said, "That's a crime, because you have it
all." And he said, "Because it's a mafia."
There's about how many casting directors?
Would you say two, three?
11:26 MARILYN SOKOL:
Well, for musicals? Two, two, maybe. And
for the rest, three, yeah.
DAVID NOH:
He's given up.
MARILYN SOKOL:
They form their likes and dislikes based
upon Lord knows what.
DAVID NOH:
Yeah.
MARILYN SOKOL:
--these casting directors-- some of them
have their own classes. And so a lot of
fledgling actors take the class in hopes of
making some connection. So they take your
money-- in essence, it's bribery, right?
Go, yeah-- horrible.
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DAVID NOH:
There's also the element of homophobia, too,
that also goes on. 'Cause if you're a young
gay actor and you wanna get cast in a show
as not necessarily a gay character, as the
lead or whatever, a lot of the casting
directors are gay men, too, right?
Especially in film, also, in Hollywood. And
they're much, much more aware and conscious
of the so-called dangers of casting a gay
guy, no matter how good an actor.
12:20 They can cast a straight guy as a gay role.
That's cool. But there's a double standard
where you can't do that, with a gay actor.
And it's crazy because they're such slaves
to the system and also very self-hating
because for a gay guy to deny another gay
guy a job based on the fact that he's gay,
what's that about? You know, you're just a
company dog.
MARILYN SOKOL:
In the old days, in the '60s and the '70s,
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producers would have their own casting
people. And so you'd go into a Broadway
house or an Off-Broadway house and you would
be auditioning for the director, the
producer, and the casting director. And
therefore, you could bypass, if you got into
the audition, you could bypass the
prejudices of the casting director. But I
used to get-- I don't know if we've talked
about this. I used to get "too urban, too
New York." But, see, they can't do that
with people of color, because it's obvious,
right? You can't do it--
DAVID NOH:
But they have code words, you know?
MARILYN SOKOL:
They do?
13:27 DAVID NOH:
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
MARILYN SOKOL:
Well, do you know what they are?
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DAVID NOH:
Well, for Asian actors, if you go in, you
know, and you read for, say, waitress. And
you go, "I'll take your order." And they
go, "Could you be more passionate? Could
you be more real?" And they'll give you all
these adjectives. And finally it comes down
to, (WITH ACCENT) "I take your order,
please?" (CHUCKLE) You know, "You're
hired."
MARILYN SOKOL:
Oh, no. Oh my God.
DAVID NOH:
But they can't say that they want a cartoon,
you know?
MARILYN SOKOL:
See, they can't.
13:53 DAVID NOH:
And, you know, you've had Juilliard training
or great training here, or whatever. And
this is the last thing that you wanna go in
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and do. But, we just wanna make you guys
aware of the realities.
MARILYN SOKOL:
You have to find projects with characters
that your ethnicity has to fit. Because
that's the way it goes. Whereas here at
Lehman, we have all kinds of casting, multi-
racial, multi-cultural casting, as it should
be.
When I was in college at NYU uptown, which
is now Bronx Community College, I was the
lead in H.M.S. Pinafore, and I was the lead
in Finian's Rainbow. But when I got out
into the mainstream and I was auditioning, I
was not considered viable for those parts
because I was ethnic.
14:47 DAVID NOH:
I don't mean to paint a really negative
picture for you all because, there are,
shows that, are colorblind, as they say.
You know what--
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MARILYN SOKOL:
Yeah.
DAVID NOH:
--that word means, right? They cast
nontraditional, ethnic people in parts that
were originally played by white people. But
that's just one reality that I think you're
all gonna have to face on some level in
terms of what goes on.
MARILYN SOKOL:
Let’s move on to God of Carnage--
DAVID NOH:
God of Carnage.
15:09 MARILYN SOKOL:
--with James Gandolfini--
DAVID NOH:
Do you know that play? Have you guys heard
about it? Yeah.
MARILYN SOKOL:
--Jeff Daniels, Marcia Gay Harden, and Hope
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Davis.
DAVID NOH:
You can't get a ticket to this. Don't kill
yourself if you don't get a ticket because
(CHUCKLE) the play's not that great. It's
like a sitcom. And I mean, it has this one
actress, Hope Davis. And to get a laugh,
she barfs onstage, literally barfs.
MARILYN SOKOL:
Yeah.
DAVID NOH:
But not only that--
15:30 MARILYN SOKOL:
And this gets--
DAVID NOH:
--she-- she barfs again. (CHUCKLE) And
then-- and then they have her--
MARILYN SOKOL:
That's right.
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DAVID NOH:
--where she's feeling sick and she's holding
a plastic bowl. And it's like, "I'm gonna
throw up. I'm gonna throw up, now." You
watch this as a human being going, "If I was
in a room, someone's gonna throw up, they go
to the bathroom. They don't sit in the
middle of the living room in the middle of a
party going, 'I'm gonna bar--'" So right
there, it's fake to me. This would never
happen.
And I feel bad for the actress, 'cause she's
gotta make a fool of herself, and try and
engage the audience. And they're with her
because they've read that, "Oh, the New York
Times said this is brilliant." So you have
all these people who have paid $125. And
they're not gonna say, "I got ripped off."
They're gonna say, "Wow, (CLAP) this is the
best thing I ever saw." And this is what
happens. The actors are really good.
Gandolfini's incredible in it.
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16:10 MARILYN SOKOL:
So, yeah, he is great. He's real.
DAVID NOH:
The rest of them are acting, acting, acting.
And he plays like a basic blue-collar kind
of a thug guy who came into a lot of money,
kinda similar to what he plays on The
Sopranos, although he's not mafia. But he
has one moment where they're fighting,
fighting, fighting. They hate each other's
guts. And then this woman who he's totally,
like, been hating, comes over. And she's
all drunk. He's gotten her drunk.
And she comes over and she gives him a kiss
and walks off, which takes him by surprise.
And he's sitting there, like, hopeless. And
he's checking her out, right, with his eyes.
And there's so much intensity in that one
eye. And you go, "That's acting."
MARILYN SOKOL:
Yeah. Let's talk about Waiting for Godot.
I've seen two or three productions of it.
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It shouldn't be called Waiting for Godot.
It should be called Waiting for the Show to
End. (LAUGH)
DAVID NOH:
Yeah.
16:56 MARILYN SOKOL:
So, it's with-- what's his name? Nathan
Lane--
DAVID NOH:
Nathan Lane, John Goodman-- but the thing
that really made me crazy was--
MARILYN SOKOL:
John Glover and Bill Irwin.
DAVID NOH:
--you know the character of Lucky? He's a
horse, right? John Glover, who is this old
British actor who I never liked to begin
with. I always find him, like, kind of a
turn off. He's so repulsive because he
thinks he has to play a broken-down nag.
And for the first act, he drools mucus from
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his nose and mouth onto the stage. And I'm
thinking, "How does he do that? It's gotta
be real."
MARILYN SOKOL:
K-Y Jelly.
DAVID NOH:
Is that-- oh, that's--
17:29 MARILYN SOKOL:
Yeah.
DAVID NOH:
--there you go. That's the actors.
MARILYN SOKOL:
That's it. (LAUGH)
DAVID NOH:
It is-- it is disgusting.
MARILYN SOKOL:
The actors' shtick.
DAVID NOH:
It is so disgusting. And I'm sitting here.
And I'd just been reading about swine flu
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all day long, right? (LAUGH) And I think
this whole audience is gonna go home and die
from this stupid actor on stage. I mean,
and that's his choice, right?
17:48 MARILYN SOKOL:
And Nathan Lane's spitting. You know, it's
like--
DAVID NOH:
Nathan Lane's-- well, you know, you--
MARILYN SOKOL:
--actors, how do you-- I can't stand it when
actors spit on me.
DAVID NOH:
Really? But it happens. John Goodman is
500 pounds and he's dripping sweat. So
there's so much body fluid going on (LAUGH)
in this thing. It's like swine flu alert.
Red alert. Did you read the reviews? Did
anyone mention this fact, that this actor
does something so disgusting, you know? I
mean--
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MARILYN SOKOL:
Well, they think it's real. It's gutsy.
The great thing is that David, in his
published pieces, gets to express his
feelings in this way. I mean, this is just
scratching the surface. I always love
talking to David about whatever film or show
we've seen, whether it was together or
separately.
18:34 I just wanted David to speak more pointedly
to the journalism students. How do you feel
about expressing your views, your responses,
in a public forum? That doesn't bother you?
You have the guts to do that? In other
words, rise or fall, these are my opinions.
DAVID NOH:
Yeah, yeah.
MARILYN SOKOL:
How is that?
DAVID NOH:
You gotta do it. You know, you have to do
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it, and I sometimes feel like I'm the
exception. I don't mean to blow my own
horn. But, I can't say I like something if
I didn't. All my other critic people,
friends and enemies, are saying they love
this, if it stinks, it stinks.
19:14 I really believe that there's not that much
good work. I believe that talent is talent
because it's rare. It's like, you have 100
actors. They're not gonna be 100 brilliant
actors. There's gonna be maybe, you hope,
ten.
But, I run into trouble because I even have
editors that go, "Whoa, you know, you didn't
like that movie? They took out a full-page
ad in the paper, you know, which is kinda
paying for your job." So, right? You know,
if there's no magazine, if there's no
advertising revenue, the magazine goes
under. You know?
But I said, "You know what? This is it.
This is how I feel." So they go--
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sometimes, "Well, can we give it to another
writer who liked the movie?" So I'm going,
“Whatever, but I don't respect you. 'cause
it's like, you want a honest opinion. And
you're kinda saying that my opinion is
invalid just 'cause I don't agree with
everybody.” And this happens a lot. This
happens a lot.
20:03 MARILYN SOKOL:
Yeah, so I'm glad we talked about that.
DAVID NOH:
I just want you guys to just see stuff on
your own, it's hard, because there's a lot
of stuff out there. And who has $125 or
even $50 or $25 or even $10 to spend on a
show. But try and do a little research on
the internet. It's good. You can find out
if there's an actor you like in it or if
it's a writer who you've studied. And you
wanna see the play done rather than just
read it. Go that way, rather than just say,
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"Wow, they raved about it."
MARILYN SOKOL:
Let us thank David for being here.
(APPLAUSE) Okay, thank you so much.
20:36 VINCE BRACY:
Visit David Noh's blog at
www.nohway.wordpress.com. That's www.n-o-h-
w-a-y.wordpress.com.
Visit us at www.lehman.edu. This is a
production of the Lehman College Media
Relations Office.
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