No Rock And Roll Fun

THE LAST TABOO: Readers of Pop Papers will know that Boy George's reaction to the absolutely scathing Broadway reviews for his ego-musical Taboo was to tell New Statesman readers that the ticket sales proved critics didn't know anything. Taboo is closing after three months. That's the trouble when you throw yourself on the mercy of the public - the public just aren't very nice at all.

The show's backer, Rosie O'Donnell, has spumed away ten million bucks on the effort, but she's philosophical: It has been "the most fulfilling experience of my career. Many lessons were learned, and so it goes. For this experience, I am profoundly grateful." Ten million seems a bit steep to learn a few lessons. You could go to an English University about three hundred times for that, even one of the good ones, even after Blair has forced through the new fees.