The silly nobody few people have ever heard of got what she wanted, some publicity, which was the point of flipping the bird.
Thanks for identifying who the model for the album cover was. I always wondered.
"Well, the captain will have none of it. “I report to the President of the United States,” he says, and storms out – leaving the feckless United Nations to stew in their “Well, I never!” indignation.
Hollywood didn’t always hate America."
That is John Nolte at his classic best.
So another lefty explorer puts on his pith helmet and goes on a safari into middle America searching for members of the elusive stone age right-wing tribe, bitterly clinging to their guns and Bibles, to try and understand and translate for the civilized folk back home what these mental pygmies are all about. I know how this plays out. There will be one or two scenes that actually show the conservatives in a positive light, the rest of the movie will all be negative, put to a sinister musical soundtrack and that will be the "balance". Been there, done that. No thanks.
Satire for me only works in very small doses because it's usually mixed with high level of smug superiority. Of course, if you are a smugly superior person, you can never get enough of this stuff. But I think most people will have a negative reaction to this pretty quickly.
Maybe the next remake can take place in New York and be about the protagonist defending his home and family against a horde of #occupywallstreeters who come to take everything he has simply because he has more. As the horde throws feces and hauls away his property, he dispatches them with extreme prejudice.
Try Dean Koontz. Like King, he has become more political in recent years but in the opposite direction politically.
I think that is very wise advice in most circumstances, but in the entertainment industry isn't opportunity for success built personal contacts? Don't people have to go to the awful parties and social functions in order to network in Hollywood? For your sanity, I am glad you don't have to.
As a correction Tom Hanks was in Cast Away, not, Castaway. While both movies took place on a desert island, the latter film had some nice looking British chick running around naked on a beach for most of the movie which is about all I remember about it, or really need to.
Christian, how about reassessing the career of Martin Scorcese who has made one dreary box office clunker after another for 40 years? Movies like The Departed and The King of Comedy are the rare exceptions. Some Eastwood movies are clunkers but I would take his stable of movies over Scorcese any day. The Outlaw Josey Wales, and even lessor but entertaining fare like Absolute Power beat just about anything Scorcese made
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