This theater company cannot be serious Did John McEnroe soothe his post-CNBC bruised ego by writing a biting, tongue-in-cheek drama for the New York stage titled A Brilliant Play by John McEnroe? No. But I thought for a millisecond that he might have, when I saw an e-mail in my inbox with the subject line “A Brilliant Play by John McEnroe serves up a discount!!!” It turns out to be a comedy about John McEnroe, not by John McEnroe. False advertising. How they can get away with this is anyone’s guess. This borders on spam, in my opinion. Let’s hope it sucks as much as the talk show did.  —Posted by Tim Nudd

January 24, 2006 | Permalink

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Given the L.A. News outing of another phony memoir today, it appears all bets are off anyhow, re accuracy. At this rate, pretty soon somebody in DC will want to repeal freedom of speech...

Posted by: Rick in Duxbury | Jan 25, 2006 8:25:15 AM

I'm missing the scandal. Of course I realize that the title of the play is a somewhat opportunistic attempt at double entendre, but this is not uncommon- or particularly scandalous. "A brilliant play by John McEnroe" could just as easily be a line of dialogue from a play about Tennis- Just as "A brilliant by John McEnroe " could easily be lifted directly from a 1978 broadcast of the US Open.

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