>Someone I was talking to, I mentioned her in an earlier post, volunteered to
>be a steward, and said that they only had a quarter of the people they
>needed, and the fact that the main organisers seemed to be trying to treat
>the guests as their own personal property.

Yeah, there was a lot of that, glomming onto people in an ingratiating kind of
way to engender personal loyalty. There was also, in my view, a deliberate
attempt to create a rift between the cast and the producers for control
reasons, and to create a buffer against any criticisms I or John or others
might bring.

jms

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