Ezra Edelman

It's part of how we go through the world and improve as humans.

It's like, what are we talking about here?

Woody Allen, Picasso, Michael Jackson, all of these people.

R. Kelly, I think it's up to everyone's personal code about how they choose to be affected by the understanding of who that person was and their ability to still revel in and enjoy said person's art.

For me, and I'm just, I'm not even gonna go deep with this, but I think it would be a little weird if when you know what R. Kelly was doing,

and what he's singing about, it's a little like, I can't do this.

It's just like, it's like right in front of me.

That's a little different for me than Michael Jackson, which I'm not like, again, I'm not, I'm not talking on any way on a moral level, but like I can listen to Michael Jackson's music and have an under certain understanding about, and yet I could also go to

The Michael Jackson Broadway show.

And by the way, the estate's working on a Broadway show about Purple Rain.

And like everyone's seen Purple Rain.

And this is a movie that while Prince didn't officially get a screenplay credit and write it, it's a fictionalized but sort of veiled fictionalized story of Prince's life.

And in it, Morris Day throws a woman into a dumpster and he slaps Apollonia.

Who Prince is in that movie, you know, in some ways is revealed, though it was always couched as fiction.

And now they're doing this adaptation of Purple Rain for Broadway.

And from my understanding, it's like they're changing Prince's character.

to make it more palatable or to at least tidy up the gender politics.

And I think that's literally a phrase I read in the New Yorker piece about the playwright, about who the character is, to ostensibly make it more palatable for an audience in 2025.

This is exactly my issue.

The guy made a movie that's about himself and...