Posted 10:19 PM by Gene

One of the many things that makes THE PAPER OF RE-CORD such a deserving bull's eye of ridicule is that its scribblers spend so much of their time seeking out opportunities to posture and preen. Today A. O. with B. O. says he has seen -- well, we won't say God, as God is PINCH, but he has seen His SON, and today His name is CLINT, and He has made ANOTHER GREATEST MOVIE OF THE -- YEAR -- or as A. O. with B. O. MUST enunciate it, "the best movie released by a major Hollywood studio this year." What makes this posturing so exasperating is that of course it's part of the cheap obsessive publicity surrounding the ARTHOUSE PICTURE OF THE YEAR AWARDS -- or rather, the OSCARS®, and compounding the agony is that THE PAPER OF RE-CORD.com has been PLASTERED for seeming MONTHS with ads (from RUPERT!!!!!!!!!! Amazing how EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL becomes best friends!) for that CINEMATIC MASTERPIECE about an ENDURING TRUTH TELLER OF SEX, and it has BOMBED AT THE BOX OFFICE, and there can be no doubt that yet again the five MASTERWORKS anointed this year with OSCAR® nominations will have been seen by fewer people than see the leading PIECE OF JUNK on any given day of any summer weekend. (That this current expression of BRILLIANCE is just another ARTHOUSE FLICK A. O. admits in the line, "a quiet, intimately scaled three-person drama directed in a patient, easygoing style," and if we misinterpret these words as meaning OVERBLOWN BORE, well, we can't help it, such words coming naturally from OVERBLOWN BORES THEMSELVES.) In short, NEWS HACKS are ENGAGED in what used to be called SELF-ABUSE yet again, and in the process do still more ABUSE to THEIR READERS -- AND TO OUR CULTURE.

And when the ratings for the 2005 OSCAR® ceremony hit new record lows, typists like A. O. with B. O., who without the slightest prompting would otherwise scream of the biz' burgeoning GENIUS, will inflict long think pieces on their consumers, wondering WHITHER HOLLYWOOD -- when among the LAST victims of their typing, but the most deserving, are THEMSELVES.