Friday, July 12, 2002
I tried to post this a couple weeks back but it wouldn't take. Let's try again...
Yesterday's IMDB "people news" carried the thoroughly uninteresting infonugget headlined Sir Anthony Hopkins Goes Public With New Love. But amongst the brief description of Hannibal's post-divorce amour was this sentence: The couple appeared together at a special dinner in Los Angeles, where Oscar-winner Sir Anthony, 64, handed over his honorary mayorship of Pacific Palisades to Police Academy actor Steve Guttenberg. Did y'all get that? Steve Guttenberg, the man who's career highlight to-date is being namedropped in a song on The Simpsons, has achieved some measure of political power. Okay, so it's only an honorary mayorship. Big deal. Yeah, but remember that Bush is only an honorary president, after all. I'm thinking this is the beginning of something frightening. Consider Reagan: dumb-as-toast, washed-up actor stumbles into politics and the next thing ya know we're living in fascist times. The Gute is an honorary mayor today; tomorrow he's governor (I'd lay him odds on favorite to beat Gray Davis in a head-to-head...wouldn't you?); the tomorrow after tomorrow he's frigging president and suddenly we have to pretend he was a great actor all along (just didn't get the breaks) and watch in horror as he delivers one wisecrack-filled speech after another. Of course he'll turn out to be a closet fascist (college exam question of the future: compare and contrast Hitler's failed artistic career with Guttenberg's) and you can bet he'll find some excuse to execute Tom Hanks for high treason (ok, maybe there is an upside). Meanwhile, folks like you and me will gather in our small, drafty apartments, huddled over primitive DVD technology to fortify our sagging spirits the only way we'll know how: endlessly replaying the glorious moment when Guttenberg gets gutted in Boys From Brazil.
Yesterday's IMDB "people news" carried the thoroughly uninteresting infonugget headlined Sir Anthony Hopkins Goes Public With New Love. But amongst the brief description of Hannibal's post-divorce amour was this sentence: The couple appeared together at a special dinner in Los Angeles, where Oscar-winner Sir Anthony, 64, handed over his honorary mayorship of Pacific Palisades to Police Academy actor Steve Guttenberg. Did y'all get that? Steve Guttenberg, the man who's career highlight to-date is being namedropped in a song on The Simpsons, has achieved some measure of political power. Okay, so it's only an honorary mayorship. Big deal. Yeah, but remember that Bush is only an honorary president, after all. I'm thinking this is the beginning of something frightening. Consider Reagan: dumb-as-toast, washed-up actor stumbles into politics and the next thing ya know we're living in fascist times. The Gute is an honorary mayor today; tomorrow he's governor (I'd lay him odds on favorite to beat Gray Davis in a head-to-head...wouldn't you?); the tomorrow after tomorrow he's frigging president and suddenly we have to pretend he was a great actor all along (just didn't get the breaks) and watch in horror as he delivers one wisecrack-filled speech after another. Of course he'll turn out to be a closet fascist (college exam question of the future: compare and contrast Hitler's failed artistic career with Guttenberg's) and you can bet he'll find some excuse to execute Tom Hanks for high treason (ok, maybe there is an upside). Meanwhile, folks like you and me will gather in our small, drafty apartments, huddled over primitive DVD technology to fortify our sagging spirits the only way we'll know how: endlessly replaying the glorious moment when Guttenberg gets gutted in Boys From Brazil.
Thursday, July 11, 2002
The last time I blogged it was my mother's birthday and all I saw fit to mention was George W. Bush's asshole. What would the Freudians say about that? Now it's July 11th and something occurs to me: if the terrorists had done their Twin Tower shenanigans a year ago today, we'd all be talking about "Seven Eleven" and living in a "post-seven eleven world", and wouldn't that just be great for the folks at 7-11? Talk about product placement. The marketing guys have to be kicking themselves over letting that one get away.
Meanwhile, Melle Mel and I are off to Seoul, South Korea in two days where they've just appointed the country's first woman prime minister. With the World Cup only a few weeks past, an administration mired in scandal, presidential elections before the end of the year, and the ongoing tiff with their Northern neighbours, S. Korea is bound to be exciting. Ah, whatever - I just wanna buy me some cheap goodies.
Meanwhile, Melle Mel and I are off to Seoul, South Korea in two days where they've just appointed the country's first woman prime minister. With the World Cup only a few weeks past, an administration mired in scandal, presidential elections before the end of the year, and the ongoing tiff with their Northern neighbours, S. Korea is bound to be exciting. Ah, whatever - I just wanna buy me some cheap goodies.
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