Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade!

The file photo in OP’s post swill probably run in a documentary that is made in 25 years about America’s Weimar Republic of what happened right before…

They know what they're doing with that picture.

Where's my puke trough?

Dear God. Where is that original photo from? It's just begging for some nutcase to do something during the parade. Really stupidly done if there wasn't supposed to be a second meaning to it.

So the Macy's Parade will be cohosted by three former Bennetton models from 1995 ?

As a side note, it was reported this weekend that the NYPD has extra security this year (as they have since 2001) due to an increase in 'terrorist attacks' from abroad. Or did they say 'a broad' ?

What the fuck? Cole goes around like that these days? He didn't used to.

I'm so tired of Cynthia Erivo's nose ring, nails, 'shocking' clothes and Billy is dead to me - his over theatrics, his wearing of women's clothes and some makeup to get attention - ENOUGH ALREADY.

Gimmicks have to be done sparingly - you can't make it your whole personality - particularly when you just do the same shit over and over and over with nothing really new or different. At least Lady Gaga did it for awhile with an artistic flair and something different.

Now just show up with a nose ring and long painted nails - or a guy wearing a tuile skirt and some glittery eye-makeup, and we're all supposed to clap and applaud their bravery?

We just lost in 2028.

Why white and latino men are tuning out.

The parade is so commercial it’s painful to watch

Back in the day, they'd have maybe Joe Garagiola and Lee Meriwether.

Now we have this shit.

I cannot get over how ugly Cynthia is. I mean, she makes Billy Porter look good!

I would gladly watch it if they stopped talking incessantly and showed more than 10% of the parade.

I used to watch CBS, where they would show parades from Massachusetts to Hawaii. NBC’s coverage grew so bad, a cable network broadcast the Macy’s parade commercial free with no hosts. I miss that.

The OP’s photo looks like a “To Tell the Truth” lineup for ‘I Killed Angel Melendez’.

Playbill

Thank you R15, your comment made having to look at that picture worth it.

Cole, if you're going to go strapless then for fuck sake wax your chest!

Can someone tell me what 'look' Cynthia is going for with the bald head, the nose rings, multiple earrings, dark eyeshadow, etc?

It's like some punk throw-back done badly. It looks desperate - and that she wants to look tough and bold - but it fails and looks transparently put-on and fake.

She looks like she stole the look from lead singer from Skunk Anansie - from 25 years ago.

R19. She also looks emaciated in that collage.

R19 She wants to be 'brave and daring'.

I hope Cole will be on the Ice skating float with those Lovable Peanuts characters.

No thanks

Cynthia needs to gain back that weight. Billy's heavy eyeshadow makes him look OLD. As for Cole - just forget it.

[quote]I put it on every year.

With which earrings?

Is there anything Billy Porter isn’t in?

Will there be a Chrissy Metz balloon?

R27, it's too big to fit around the streetlamps.

[quote] Is there anything Billy Porter isn’t in?

Mensa

R21. Period goes INSIDE the quote!

Ed McMahon hosts the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. 1976

With McLean Stevenson, Della Reese, Barry Manilow, Martha Raye, Laverne & Shirley, Buffalo Bob & Howdy Doody.

The America I fondly remember.

Those was the dayz.

It seems like the last few years the Macys Day Parade has essential become Pride in the November. I said what I said. This is why flyover hates msm.

I struggle to conjure up something more boring than a parade. I don't know why, but I've always felt this way.

Flyover should hate MACY'S, like the rest of the country.

MACYS is an historical institution. It's come to symbolize shopping culture for America.

[quote]It's come to symbolize shopping culture for America.

Are you posting from 1985?

Amazon has come to symbolize shopping culture for America

[quote] They know what they're doing with that picture.

…anti-eyebrow propaganda?

Somehow, the three people in OP's pic (and millions of other people) have gotten the idea that if you're a performing artist, you have to look the part, which means being "alternative" and "different" and "queer" and lord knows what else to attract attention. Why?

Did Billie Holliday do this? No. Did Robert de Niro do this? No. Did Barbra Streisand do this? No. Why do we now get stuck with these attention whores?

Are they trying to get viewership to zero?

Do they think they look GOOD?

THEY DON'T!

R38 Streisand DID do this. Read her book. She developed her own look to look 'different' , be the 'alternative' and to attract attention. She never felt like she fit in with other people of her generation. Little did she know her 'kooky' look in the early 60s would actually take off and inspire a whole new look.

20 years after Streisand came Madonna and Cyndi Lauper. They did whatever they could to their appearance to be different, and to be the alternative to others in the 80s. Anyhting to stand out and get attention from the media. (It worked).

So this idea has been around for a while, and it has proven successful.

What a freak show!

Cynthia E. Is in the #1 film out. Cole is in a smash Broadway play. Billy Porter…you have a point. There are many other performers I the parade not just these three.

Cole Escola is looking like ass himself. Nobody wins.

Cole turns 38 on Monday, November 25. Let's all wish him a Happy Birthday.

R41 - those are very poor analogies. Streisand's early 60s look was sophisticated and wasn't 'out there' - Madonna and Cyndi's looks were part of the new wave/new funk look of the time. They did not invent it - they just reveled in it and made it more popular. Many many other artists had been wearing clothes like that before 1984.

They're also singers - not actors - and rock stars are allowed a sense of eccentricity and to grab attention.

None of them shaved their heads, wore nose rings, multiple silver earrings, then dragon lady nails with spikes and different colors. It's not in fashion, it's not 'playful' - it's a full on visual assault and a "I dare you to criticize my outrageous outfit" stance.

R46 Maybe the problem is you not them. I’m just saying. It seems as though you are suggesting they are putting on airs purposefully trying to offend your more vanilla tastes.

R46 There were exceptions, Boy George comes to mind, but people like him really stood out and were doing something genuinely creative and new for the time.

This trio already seems like a tired cliché.

R32, it's why most people hate the MSM and why it is rapidly dying.

Like a collection of misfit toys.

R46 Sweetie, here's what 'poor analogy' Streisand had to say about her early days in an interview when her book came out:

"I guess I looked different, I dressed different. I never just went with the style of the day. I had other images in my head. I was inspired by period films, paintings in museums and those fabulous Mucha posters of Sarah Bernhardt that I first saw when I was a teenager. People should express themselves and wear whatever they feel on any given day," she explained.

For the longest time, her first boyfriend Barry Dennen took credit for giving Streisand her 'kooky look' to draw attention to her. Her clothes, her make-up, her hair - he didn't want her looking 'elegant' and 'sophisticated' like all the other female singers of her generation breaking out in the early 60s (Diahann Carroll was one of the others). He wanted Streisand to stand out, and grab the spotlight. She, however, gave herself all the credit in her memoir.

She may not have shaved her head or wore a nose ring (no one had that imagination back then), but what she did wear in the early 60s was 'strange' and 'different' from everyone else.

[quote]Macys Day Parade

Oh, dear.

[quote]Sweetie, here's what 'poor analogy' Streisand had to say about her early days in an interview when her book came out:

You're wrong.

And obviously you weren't around back then.

Go back and look at Striesand's earliest TV appearances. That how the US was introduced to Barbra. No matter what she claims today, her looks, clothing, makeup were within the norm. She had a signature style, but there was nothing outlandish about it.

Ed Sullivan introduces Barbra 1963

R47 - that's exactly what they are doing. It's not vanilla tastes - their gimmicky looks are embarrassing.

And Streisand knew she didn't have the typical starlet face - her 'looks' weren't THAT outre. It was more representative of new styles coming out already in London fashion.

Nobody is shaving their head and wearing door-knocker nose rings and multiple silver earrings. It's not a nod to anything popular or a new fashion trend - it's 'what's the most shocking shit I can wear?"

It's tired and off putting - there's nothing wrong with this look. AND I take offense that she calls this a 'queer' look - just like Billy Porter.

I do take offense at that - as if all gay men are running around in high heels and gay women are wearing doom-makeup. I'm tired of the blue and green haired people declaring their look to be queer or gay - no it isn't.

It annoys me that to ALL straight media "gay" = femme queens, cross dressers, trannies, and drag queens to the exclusion of non-side show gays.

Now that Macys' is circling the drain, who will step up as the sponsor for the parade?

CNN is broadcasting parades for the first time this year-really scrambling before becoming Fox-2

R53 Are you kidding ? I quoted Barbra about her style when she first started out and you say I'm / she's wrong ?

[quote]Go back and look at Striesand's earliest TV appearances. That how the US was introduced to Barbra.

The US was introduced to Streisand when she opened for Phyllis DIller at the Bon Soir from September 9 - November 20, 1960 at 18 years old. She won rave reviews from Variety, NYT, and other news media. Marty Ehrlichman, the Bergmans, Clive Davis (talent scout for Columbia Records) all flocked to catch this new talent. She returned to the Bon Soir to headline her own sold-out engagement six months later, when she first turned 19, and Ehrlichman signs her up and becomes her manager. She makes her first TV appearance in late June, 1961 (at the end of her BS engagement) on Mike Wallace's 'PM East' talk show, where he talks about her 'kooky' sense of style and fashion sense (which she happily engages with him, telling him her mismatched clothing came from thrift shops, and takes credit for her own garish make-up).

In her memoir, she also says she still does her own make-up professionally, as she trusts no one else. That includes photography, movies, television, concert stage. She's been doing her own makeup since taking the stage in 1960.

‘’Oh Dear’’ even works on holidays.

So interesting-they were just showing the construction of new Trump float! Amazing-Macy*s employees piling shit on a flatbed truck.

r54 Cynthia should go back to that look.

Nobody asked for this.

And I am SO sick of seeing Cynthia's ugly mug everywhere. The Wicked press campaign is totally obnoxious.

Weather Channel says it’s to rain on Macy’s Parade and wind which could ground giant balloon characters.

CBS is not broadcasting the parade this year.

Why is Cole trying so hard to look like Mamie Eisenhower?

Is this the new Jaguar ad campaign?

Cole is a wonderful person, and I hate seeing him grouped with the other two.

[quote]The US was introduced to Streisand when she opened for Phyllis DIller at the Bon Soir from September 9 - November 20, 1960 at 18 years old.

No, the US was not introduced to Streisand when she opened for Phyllis DIller at the Bon Soir. That was a niche venue in NYC with a 100 or so seats. And those days, of course, were long before social media and all the rest.

Barbra was introduced to the US on the Jack Paar Show. The Ed Sullivan Show. And later The Gary Moore Show. That's how the country got to know who she was.

Barbra had a unique style, but she didn't look like a circus freak like Erivo and Porter.

[quote]Barbra was introduced to the US on the Jack Paar Show. The Ed Sullivan Show. And later The Gary Moore Show. That's how the country got to know who she was.

+1 for spelling "Paar" correctly.

-1 for misspelling "Garry."

And it gets worse, I was just about ready to write "Gary More"

Oops sorry, I wrote that post at R71

I’m stuck here in East Hampton.

Who the fuck in 2024 knows who Garry Moore was?

r74, I do.

r73, so spend it with Ina and Jeffrey.

r69 Indeed, Barbra looked like a normal human being.

And why are they pushing that anchor-nostriled person instead of Jonny Bailey? That's truly wicked.

[quote]Who the fuck in 2024 knows who Garry Moore was?

#MeToo

Off to a terrible start - Madame Billy Porter.

It’s miserable outside in NYC this morning! Not parade weather.

Woke lunacy is now out of fashion but nobody told NBC.

[quote]MACYS is an historical institution. It's come to symbolize shopping culture for America.

Macy's symbolizes American business at its worst: taking over iconic stores in other cities and immediately turning them into shit. Fuck Macy's and its tacky Thanksgiving Day commercial.

Macy's had a moment in the early '80s when its president, Ed Finkelstein, declared that shopping was entertainment. And for awhile it was, until...until what? Federated bought it? I don't remember exactly, but I recall department stores not seeming as well stocked as they had been, sometime in the mid-eighties. I was writing copy for Woodward & Lothrop in DC, and the men's department in the flagship store seemed so empty, so lacking in merchandise.

The corporations who bought the department stores did as much as they could to destroy at least the individuality of each store long before the internet was a player.

Did Billy Porter screech-sing in a stupid dress then glare haughtily at the parade-goers?

R84 he was wearing a top hat and tails getup. It was the color of ER scrubs.

I'd rather shop at Gimbel's.

Streisand is delusional. She looked as totally 1960s as Mary Quant did. She even married (or didn't marry, I forget because in the 70s it didn't matter) a hairdresser.

What she wore before she could afford new clothes hardly represents her fashion sense. It's like saying "I lived in a walk-up in the East Village because I was out-there", when the minute you made money you moved to Park Avenue.

You can have a parade with commercial floats and balloons and still have it be a good, entertaining time for the whole family, It used to be better.