Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 05:04:39 EST

From: Bapopik Bapopik[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM

Subject: Glass Curtain



What hath "the glass ceiling" wrought?

This is from the New York Post, 21 December 1997, pg. 53:



Hitting theater's "glass curtain"

Why women behind the scenes can't make it on Broadway

By Amy Worthen

(...) She (Susana Tolbert) says she ran up against theater's "glass

curtain," a barrier that female directors, producers and playwrights say has

kept them from the reaching the (sic) top ranks of American theater.



A computer check shows a recent book by Carlo Gebler called THE GLASS

CURTAIN: INSIDE AN ULSTER COMMUNITY. The first "glass curtain" (which

appears to play off Winston Churchill's "iron curtain") is a 1965 symposium

book edited by Raghavan Narasimhan Iyer, THE GLASS CURTAIN BETWEEN ASIA AND

EUROPE.

Why do women have all this "glass" everywhere? What's next?

PHILIP GLASS: Beats me. It's driving me crazy.

POPIK: Philip Glass! Last week's Village Voice cover!

PHILIP GLASS: I don't live in a glass house. It doesn't have a glass curtain

and it doesn't have a glass ceiling. I don't even have a glass-bottom boat!

POPIK: Have a heart.

PHILIP GLASS: I DON'T HAVE A "HEART OF GLASS," EITHER!!

POPIK: Women can see right through you.

PHILIP GLASS: IT'S A PANE IN THE GLASS!!!!

POPIK: Do you have any glass slippers? Would you say you live in a Glass

Menagerie?

PHILIP GLASS: No! It doesn't have a Glass Key, or a Glass Wall, or a Glass

Sphinx, or a Glass Tomb, or a Glass Cage, or a Glass Web, or a Glass Tower, or

a Glass Mountain!!!!

POPIK: You left out GLASS ALIBI (1946), directed by Lee Wilder.

PHILIP GLASS: I'M SHATTERED!!