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I'm really not trying to defend Bono or Edge or anyone and I think there has been some really bad stuff going down behind the scenes of Spiderman, but reading that article I can't help but think that Taymor was indeed very difficult to work with.
That doesn't sound like it was an easy collaboration or that Taymor was particularly understanding when it came to the difficulties of the musical and the ideas of the producers in order to improve it.
There's nothing mean about Bono's e-mail, he just raises concern about issues everyone should be alarmed about when in a collaboration with someone who's trying to prevent the others from developing and realising their ideas.
Sounds like a lot of frustration to me and I can understand both sides.
But what do I know? I only find it really sad that their friendship has suffered from all of this, and I think B and Edge still do love her very much and I absolutely don't think they wish any harm on her. It's unfortunate that things ended up this way.
Ms. Taymor developed the show over several years with its composers, Bono an the Edge of U2. In their filing on Tuesday, the producers included excerpts from several derisive e-mails about Ms. Taymor written by the other creators of the show, including Bono; the e-mails were included in a section of the lawsuit that sought to portray Ms. Taymor in breach of contract because of her difficulty as a collaborator on the show.
Bono, who worked with Ms. Taymor to develop “Spider-Man” for several years and had once called her “my close friend,” wrote an e-mail last Jan. 7 criticizing her for “shooting ideas down before taking time to understand them,” according to the producers’ lawsuit. (Bono wrote the score of the musical with his band mate the Edge.)
Glen Berger, a playwright Ms. Taymor had hired to help her write the “Spider-Man” script, wrote to a colleague on the show last Jan. 20 that Ms. Taymor had threatened to stop collaborating with him if he sided with the producers over ideas to change and possibly improve the musical.
Referring to the producers, Mr. Berger wrote: “If they want to know what my ideas are, damn straight I’m going to tell them my ideas — they have every right in the world to know. And yeah, Julie forbade me from telling them, and said she wouldn’t be able to work with me if I started telling other people my ideas, or if I even started bringing them up to her. That was wrong of her.”
That doesn't sound like it was an easy collaboration or that Taymor was particularly understanding when it came to the difficulties of the musical and the ideas of the producers in order to improve it.
There's nothing mean about Bono's e-mail, he just raises concern about issues everyone should be alarmed about when in a collaboration with someone who's trying to prevent the others from developing and realising their ideas.
Sounds like a lot of frustration to me and I can understand both sides.
But what do I know? I only find it really sad that their friendship has suffered from all of this, and I think B and Edge still do love her very much and I absolutely don't think they wish any harm on her. It's unfortunate that things ended up this way.