Posted 12:57 PM by Gene

God, harping on this topic is like a deaf man talking to himself, but the professional cheerleaders seem to have conceded the movee biz is unsalvageable. Granted this typist honors two old bromides: that the sixtiesearlyseventies were a GOLDEN AGE, and that TV IS BETTER THAN EVER!!!!! As to the first, the "foment" that led to a GOLDEN AGE also led to the conditions that make the biz unsalvageable, primarily the ossification of its business structure, but also the ossification of its brains; the same GOLDEN AGE that created Pauline Kael's Top 10 also created LUKE SPIELBERG. As to the second, most TV is produced by the same studios that disgorge dreck. What in Hollywood's drinking water causes a project to bloom when it becomes TV? Our magical writer doesn't know, and he probably wouldn't want to, but in his three-left-footed sixteen-toed way he admits BETTER-THAN-EVER TV is a fringe thing, a cult thing, and as we've said a million times art for the thousands will never be good. He is also very careful to say "adult" films "often end up with an R rating, which puts a ceiling on their earning capacity and makes a modest budget absolutely essential." So why not make adult films with broader appeal? Why must they have R ratings? Or is that your version of Linus's security blanket? Mark Harrises will guarantee movees stink just as much as the testosterone crowd, and the fact this article has garnered seven comments in about three weeks shows its hopelessness, and its irrelevance.

(Via the usual AHTSJournal, where this resounds like the Lord's word)