from an article about "dreamgirls":
The target audience had been African-Americans, gays and upscale whites. But now the movie is playing bigger than expected with white audiences in general. Anecdotes are starting to come in of audiences cheering and clapping and crying, which had been happening nightly since December 15th when Dreamgirls opened in only Hollywood's Cinerama Dome, New York's Zeigfield, and San Francisco's Metreon.what exactly was the rationale here? that black people, gay people, and rich white people will skip christmas to see a film musical on opening night, and (moving on to the following sentence) wowee... looks like those non-rich white people are heathens too! that there is an assumption that rich white people have better taste than "white audiences in general"? that the only place "dreamgirls" was expected to be a hit was manhattan?
okay, never mind. i just thought it was funny.
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