Impredicative Junkyard

Tuesday, November 09, 2004

Today's cultural product is reduced to answering only for its amusement potential. What it "means" must be able to be expressed in a line or two, if it means anything. The Clancy or King novels, or most network TV, are all reductive worlds of robotic behavior. ... Tom Cruise, a Scientologist (not coincidentally) is the perfect blank slate, the empty vessel. From Robert Mitchum or Bogart to Cruise and Hanks. From pain and struggle to sentimentality and blankness. -
Cultural Entropy by John Steppling. И его же The Debacle At The Hague, where he says:

I remember CNN full of the odious Christiane Amanpour (not coincidently the wife of Albright's errand boy Jamie Rubin, who also not coincidently was Wesley Clark's assistant during Clark's closed door testimony -- a hearing that even Milosevic's legal associates were not permitted to attend) blathering on about how important a trial this was, how international justice was on the threshold of a great breakthrough, yada yada yada.

... учитывая, что он is a LA playwright (Rockefeller fellow, NEA recipient, and PEN-West winner) and screenwriter (most recent was Animal Factory directed by Steve Buscemi). He is currently living in Poland where he teaches at the National Film School in Lodz. ...

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