Glendale News Press: Fate, in the persons of one recently departed Jewish grandmother and a loopy delivery man, brings two lonely people together on Christmas Eve in the West Coast premiere of “Handle With Care,” a romantic comedy by Jason Odell Williams at the Colony Theatre in Burbank.
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This looks like a kind of cute show. I can see where people would think of it as heartwarming. But won't some of the more sensitive people in the community get offended that a non-retarded person is playing as a mentally retarded person? Some people get really sensitive and offended by that kind of thing. I can imagine that this show will get all kinds of complaints about the portrayal of the mentally handicapped. So much that they may not be able to do it again. There was a huge uproar with Forrest Gump. It is a fantastic movie, but some members of the audience thought that portraying a mentally disabled person was a bad thing to do. (Though in my opinion if they had cast an actualy mentally disabled person, it would have been worse. That would have been terrible type casting. "We only want you because you are retarded.")Once something has a negative viewpoint, it is really hard to go back to it. Like black face. Black face will forever have a bad reputation, even if some acts used it in a more positive light. I suspect this will be a once-and-done kind of show because of that.
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