Posted 6:13 PM by Gene

Bravo! Mozart
Because of his greatness, Mozart cannot help but be edifying.

Mozart's Gift
His music has taught us how to live.

RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is up to something. It would be harder to find someone who could be more hostile to the high arts than he; probably the last time he heard Mozart's music was as background on a TV commercial, and he pushed the button on his remote so hard he damaged it, and then probably threw the remote at the set for good measure. Woe be unto anyone who'd dare play Mozart in his presence. We can hear him screaming now: "WHOY D'YEW HAFTA PLYYY THAT STYYNKIN EGGHHEAD MEEWSIC?????" (But then we could just as readily assume RUPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! has no taste in the arts -- as he has no taste.) Now the RUPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! can proudly claim he's producing a high art of his own kind; he has plenty of ad-blurb copywriters who'll attest that he's putting out the greatest art since -- well, since THE GREATEST WORK OF AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE OF THE LAST QUARTER-CENNNNNNTURY; but hacks will in a crisis always stick together, even if it's with someone as evil as RUPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No, he's up to something, maybe like the old guy played by Eddie Robinson in Soylent Green before Charlton Heston learns what goes into the stuff. Maybe RUPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wants to keep it to himself. Maybe RUPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'S realizes been turning out cultural Soylent Green too long, and the cri-TICS have an insatiable appetite for it, and it stinks. Maybe RUPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is just being his usual genius bonehead self.