Criticising the theatre critics, 1991
The 'Butcher of Broadway' and others get a taste of their own acerbic medicine The custard pie is the traditional slapstick method of pricking the pomposity of the powerful, and for the cover of the Observer Magazine of 10 February 1991, it was thrown at Frank Rich, the theatre critic of the New York Times ('Tyrants of taste'). But was he really that influential? 'The eyes of critics,' sneered Walter Savage Landor, '…