Posted
8:30 AM
by Gene
AUTOMATIC WRITING, PART II: Someone could do a brilliant dissection of Hollywood's sudden desire to remake
The Wizard of Oz, a property it's done only what, twenty-six times; but count on LALA not to be able to do it without bringing in PERFESSER THOMPSON, THE AUTOMATIC SOUND-BITE MACHINE, whose mere presence in a story renders it unreadable. Why can't some people do their own reporting for once?