Posted 11:07 AM by Gene

Some hack sees Audrey Hepburn. We would say he's hallucinating but to write about today's one-hit wonders a hack merely needs delusions of grandeur.

In fairness we don't know how we'd have greeted the young Audrey; possibly our cynicism toward THE BIZ would have blinded us to her now immortal charms. But whatever that line about any publicity being good publicity Kingsleyism does would-be stars no good with its D-Day assaults on the senses. We forget someone like MM had time to slowly work into the national consciousness with modeling and bit parts. People want to discover these things on their own. That may explain the fluke success of March of the Penguins -- and why people have lately avoided the sure-fire hits like a Hollywood plague.