Posted 6:41 AM by Gene

The Paper of Re-CORD's official movie publicist Laura moans over all the labor unrest in the biz, and for a moment she waxes philosophical:

Recently Mr. Ratner, the director, was driving down Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood when he noticed a going-out-of-business sign at Tower Records, the music retailer that once thrived on selling the music of superstars like Prince, Elton John and Madonna. Many here, like him, fear that the problems that plagued the music business are heading their way.

“What happens if the film business is not ahead of the curve?” he asked. “What is going to happen to me? To all of us?”

If your industry put out anything vaguely close to what it did at its best, decades ago, we might pull for you. But because you disgorge the artistic equivalent of the Cuyahoga River on fire we wish you nothing but the WORST.

P. S. LALA is wildly cheering for a flood of imitations of guess what -- and for possibly the first time in years PAUL DRECK opens his mouth and (unwittingly) speaks the truth: "'Candid Camera' on steroids." This is the masterpiece of our time. Thank you again, ad-blurbists!