Re: RAT troy's good fortune

[Troy Hollar <thollar@cohnwellspartners.com>]

Your bitter sarcasm overwhelms me.


>i think it's wonderful that you've had so many fantastic experiences with
>people laying money on you, my goodness, and just think, all these friends
>in a single lifetime, such a miracle.  But it never happened to me that
>way, and i was just trying to warn others that mainstream funds can be (can
>absolutely be) destructive.  And usually are.  And no ifs ands or buts
>about it.  I spend three years at the Guthrie theatre on Ford and
>Rockefeller money, as a so-called playwright in residence, and the whole
>time all i did was carry spears in various well-dressed productions.  The
>grant people maybe didn't make things that hideous, but the more important
>question, I think, is Why didn't they help?  Go get it though, Troy, and
>more power to you.  But I don't think in my statements here you will find
>any attack on audiences, whoever they might be and whatever their makeup
>statistically.  I love them all.  jim lineberger