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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A few good songs would help, in which department the show is sorely lacking. Like most rock stars, Bono and The Edge haven’t a clue about writing for the theater. Many of the numbers are fragments and none offers much psychological insight into character. Tellingly, the ones that work best -- “Rise Above” and “Deeply Furious” -- belong to Arachne, who also gets the title song, a lame item indeed.
There’s not much humor in “Spider-Man,” and most of it is visual.
Even after Mike Riedel's through? (Although we've noticed him MIA of late. SLIME easily bought? Oh, no. He doesn't have to be.)
P. S. Steve (or rather, Pond) seems genuinely mystified that 2010 was "a bad year for film songs" [!!!!!], this in an age of such genius as "Springsteen's 'Streets of Philadelphia' and Dylan's 'Things Have Changed' and Eminem's 'Lose Yourself'", and even thinking through how bad it was despite all the compliments on FIVE PAGES didn't help.
By the way, who were those no-talents who wrote that forgotten Best Song of 1936? Give me Springsteen and Dylan and Eminem any day! Right, Pond?