
By David Poland poland@moviecitynews.com
The Sting Of Irony
One of the non-pleasures of the mostly-old-news case against Anthony Pellicano – one still gets the strong impression that the government is waiting for someone… anyone… to crack – is that all the old players are being tortured once again. Papers are giving space to Grey vs Shandling, a decade old story of basic Hollywood bullshit, as though Shandling had gotten a single job fronting a movie in this millennium. Of course, the wet dream of the many, many people that Brad Grey has made into enemies – easily #1 on Hollywood’s Most Hated List in 2007, and still in 2008 – is that Grey will lose his job, be sent to jail, and be forced to have an affair with a “development executive” that wants to develop more space in one of Grey’s orifices. (Not in that group is that bastion of speaking truth to power, Nikki Finke, who was converted into a Grey BFF about a year ago. I agree that the testimony was boring













“…to say “Fight Club” is about fist-fighting is like saying “Taxi Driver” is about cab driving.” — Jim Emerson.
I never could understand all the fuss over the fighting in “Fight Club” when the story was really about how to form terrorist cells intent on leveling the skyscrapers that symbolized our corrupt capitalist system.
Heh.