From Jim Gilliam's blog archives
Rewriting the Script
November 13, 2005 6:49 PM
Matt Bai is always interesting.. in his latest piece for NY Times magazine, he grudgingly admits that yes, Hollywood was completely right about the war, and then proceeds his intellectual deconstruction. Like this graf on the bullshit pre-war intelligence:
He ends with this: "Like other constituencies that once ruled Democratic politics (Big Labor, for instance, or urban machines) but are now finding themselves displaced, to some extent, by financiers and online activists, the people who make movies aren't writing the Democratic script anymore. What they've got left is mostly special effects." I like to think there's value in both... borrowing from Hollywood, mushing it with the internet, and re-writing the script, again and again and again.
Rewriting the Script (11.13.2005)
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