Talk:Gerome Ragni

Queston about sources - help, please!
Hello out there! Does anyone know the sources for this entry? Would love to incorporate some of it into the main Hair site but "need back-up" as they say in fact checking land -- Mblaxill 22:00, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Advocate
One correction: Gerome Ragni spelled his shortened name Jerry with a J. I just talked to Jim Rado a few minutes ago to clarify that very point, before the profile I just did on him for the Advocate's website goes up. It should be on their website some time later this week. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.83.219.112 (talk) 21:34, 11 August 2008 (UTC)


 * New info has come to light. In an Aug 2008 Advocate.com article Jim Rado speaks about Jerry as "a love of his life" and comes out as "omnisexual." http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid59252.asp - I dont know how to cite articles properly so leave it up to whoever does. Jerry should be added to additional categories: American bisexual actors and American bisexual playwrights (or American bisexual musical writers?) American bisexual songwriters. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.83.219.112 (talk) 15:17, 15 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks! When i get a chance I'll add this - if you want feel free to put it in yourself .. i can put in the citations if you don't know how. PEACE - Mblaxill (talk) 16:33, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Clean up
This arctile is in desperate need of a clean up & major re-write, indeed it's one of the worse articles I have ever read on Wikipedia. Just a small number of examples:
 * 'That belief made him tireless.'
 * 'They associated with a group of kids in the East Village who were dropping out and dodging the draft and talked to characters in the streets and people they knew and read lots of articles in the press and media about hippies and about kids being kicked out of school for growing their hair long.'
 * 'His response to the songs was, "Where's the music?"'
 * 'Butler was immediately interested and wanted to move it to Broadway, so he bought the rights from Papp for $50,000 and got ready to stage a whole new grander production, with Tom O'Horgan, who Ragni knew from off-Broadway, directing.'
 * 'However, he was soon itching for something new.'

It was rather difficult to select examples of bad writing as the whole article is shockingly bad - it reads more like a stream of consciousness than an encyclopedia article. If the author does have some useful information perhaps they could ask someone else, a literate individual, to write the article for them - or better still return to school for english lessons. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.224.43.24 (talk) 12:17, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

The opening paragraph (drawing on walls, "tireless") is lifted directly from a 1972 New York Times article, reprinted here: http://www.orlok.com/hair/holding/articles/DudeArticles/D-NYT10-22-72disaster.html 64.81.49.227 (talk) 17:53, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Name in lead, naming convention
He changed the spelling of his name from Jerome to Gerome; I updated the lead format by copying similar such as Bill Clinton. I didn't see an exact example of changed spelling of first names and where to put the middle name in Naming conventions (people) although an exact answer might be in one of the 13 archives of talk. Fishlandia (talk) 16:04, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Will add source later Fishlandia (talk) 16:06, 8 January 2016 (UTC)