Madama Butterworth.

In a fiesty, crabby profile that appears in today's issue of The New York Sun, aggrieved stage director Jonathan Miller says of the Anthony Minghella Madama Butterfly currently onstage at the Metropolitan Opera, "It was like receiving a maple syrup enema."

That's not the worst Dr. Miller has to say in the piece, but it's probably the most lip-smacking sound bite.

Update: Oooooh, snap! Relating to the above, Parterre Box offers the following observation:

"La Cieca predicts that Miller's next career move will be a return to his chosen field of neuropsychology, where he will make history as the first ever self-diagnosed case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder."

Comments

[Maury D'Annato]

I loved it, of course, but that is just riotously funny.

[Lisa Hirsch]

I'll have to read that. I took on some stupid pronouncement of Miller's back in the first six months of my blog. Suffice it to say, I do not take him and his bitterness too seriously.