Tricia Walsh-Smith made a YouTube video accusing her husband, Phil, of a variety of awful things and watching her strange and discomforting “divorce” video renders down the likability of the entire human race a few notches.


For the record, I tangentially know Phil Smith.  He’s a Big Cog in the Shubert Organization on Broadway. 

Phil has always struck me as a fair and kind person and he paid his dues with the Shuberts for a long time before he stepped in to fill the void Bernie Jacobs left behind when he died.

The Shuberts are a careful organization.  They don’t pick losers to lead them. 

To see Phil’s soon-to-be ex-wife harping on him in an Internet video and then revealing private and personal intimacies — that belong only between husband and wife — is not only distasteful, it’s rude and obnoxious and damaging.

I suppose if the law and the righteousness of the human spirit are not on your side, the desperate and the forlorn will lower their will and aesthetic to kick a low-blow — or make a YouTube video that embarrasses them more than their obsessed-upon victim.

If Tricia Walsh-Smith had a shred of human decency left — or even a clinging tendril of self-esteem remaining — she would remove her video, apologize to Phil, and run back under the rock from whence she came.

6 Comments

  1. Kathakali Chatterjee – Hyderabad, India – Professionally, I have an interesting concoction of experience -- from entertainment industry to retailing to executive education -- the journey is still on. When I don't work, I love to travel, read, listen to music and watch movies.
    Katha says:

    That is the last thing we want, public display of private emotions…
    Why can’t people be a little graceful?

  2. Hi Katha! You’re certainly right about that — I guess desperate people who are unkind and who do not have grace on their side have to turn dirty to play.

  4. David Boles – New York City – David Boles was born in Nebraska and holds an MFA from the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is an author, dramatist, editor, publisher, and teacher who writes across the live stage, print, radio, television, film, and the web. With more than 50 books in print, David continues to write 2MM words a year and has authored over 25K articles. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Authors Guild, and PEN America, and founded The United Stage advocacy platform on the principle that playwrights have a duty to direct their own work. Read the Prairie Voice Archive at Boles.com | Buy his books at David Boles Books Writing & Publishing at BolesBooks.com | Study with Script Professor at ScriptProfessor.com | Touch American Sign Language mastery at Hardcore ASL at HardcoreASL.com | Explore the Human Meme podcast at HumanMeme.com | Train with Boles Bells at BolesBells.com.
    David W. Boles says:

    The questions becomes: “Do we solve it or leave it?”

  5. Kathakali Chatterjee – Hyderabad, India – Professionally, I have an interesting concoction of experience -- from entertainment industry to retailing to executive education -- the journey is still on. When I don't work, I love to travel, read, listen to music and watch movies.
    Kathakali Chatterjee says:

    Hi David,
    Do you think it is the “generations”?
    I think the immoral and unethical people were there before…may be it was not that widespread.
    “Do we have a choice to solve it or leave it?”…unless it’s happening in our own life?
    Then the choice also depends on us!

  6. David Boles – New York City – David Boles was born in Nebraska and holds an MFA from the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is an author, dramatist, editor, publisher, and teacher who writes across the live stage, print, radio, television, film, and the web. With more than 50 books in print, David continues to write 2MM words a year and has authored over 25K articles. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Authors Guild, and PEN America, and founded The United Stage advocacy platform on the principle that playwrights have a duty to direct their own work. Read the Prairie Voice Archive at Boles.com | Buy his books at David Boles Books Writing & Publishing at BolesBooks.com | Study with Script Professor at ScriptProfessor.com | Touch American Sign Language mastery at Hardcore ASL at HardcoreASL.com | Explore the Human Meme podcast at HumanMeme.com | Train with Boles Bells at BolesBells.com.
    David W. Boles says:

    Great questions, Katha! The problem may very well be generational. Some believe they are owed a life while others toil in order to earn, not just their lives, but the lives of others in their life. That dyad needs to have effervescent benefits to both parties in order for the relationship to survive. Parasitic relationships are doomed because there is no equal exchange of energies.

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