THE NEWS HACK'S CREED:
I know more than you.
I make lots more money than you.
I'm smarter than you.
I'm sexier than you.
I appear on TV all the time.
I work ten minutes a day.
I rule the universe.
I'm going to live forever.
You are an idiot.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2:
A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3:
I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity.
--JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4:
News isn't news when we don't report it.
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Further good news: total B.O. was down about 10 percent from last year; and the stunt did less than even the critical prognosticator of Hollywood Elsewhere predicted. GOOD!
But we must not forget THE NEW EFFETE EDELSTEIN OF STALE.COM:
Who knows whether Snakes will have—forgive me—legs [NO WE WILL NOT, AFTER ALL THE IDIOT PUNS YOU HACKS GAVE US], but it's more than awesome enough to assure opening-weekend euphoria for those who were waiting for it already, and their positive word-of-mouth should draw plenty of people who weren't.
PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!!!!!
P. S. at 9:23 p.m.: PAUL DRECK eructs another of the EGREGIOUS SOUND BITES that have made him -- famous:
"New Line did not set out to create this Internet buzz. [?!?!?] That's actually a marketer's dream, but when marketing translates into awareness but does not inspire people to get out from behind their computers and into the theater, that's a problem."
A problem which, of course, has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MOVIE.