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This is my bitter story about how Hollywood screwed up my brilliant idea. Only it wasn't even Hollywood. It was VH1. It's really more a story about how four guys MTV was trying to get rid of screwed up my idea...
...countries are rarely invaded because of my mistakes. In fact, if I thought my actions would have serious global consequences, I might spend a little more time gathering facts and building consensus. However, Sullivan's allusion to Frodo Baggins, hero of The Lord of the Rings, was an unintentionally brilliant commentary on Bush and his crusade against terrorism: a small being wandering in a world of good and evil, solely responsible for the fate of all. Unfortunately, we don't live in Middle-earth, and there was never a Fellowship. And perhaps Frodo was more capable of understanding the complexities...
...three businessmen up for a big promotion are judged on the basis of who has the best wife for the job. We are no longer impressed with the notion of the woman behind the man. Lady Macbeth--never a good role model, to be sure--looks less like a brilliant schemer and more like a needy victim of unequal opportunity. In many states, it is now illegal even to ask whether a job applicant is married. Politics is not quite as advanced. Although women are streaming into elected office, plenty are still loyally trailing along after their politico husbands, chatting...
...trend spotting, romantic wisdom and magazine-ready catchphrases. (It ham-handedly drops words like hasbian--a former sapphist--as if to scream, "Look! We're cool! We get it!") But it could use more of Sex's sense of irony. Instead it earnestly believes its most trite observations are brilliant revelations; watching it is like spending an hour a week with an overconfident college sophomore. The L Word has lust and libido down, all right, but otherwise it has an L of a long way to go. --By James Poniewozik
...everyone." But foreign countries are rarely invaded because of my mistakes. In fact, if I thought my actions would have serious global consequences, I might spend a little more time gathering facts. However, Sullivan's allusion to Frodo Baggins, hero of The Lord of the Rings, was an unintentionally brilliant commentary on Bush and his crusade against terrorism: a small being wandering in a world of good and evil, solely responsible for the fate of all. Unfortunately, we don't live in Middle-earth, and there was never a Fellowship. And perhaps Frodo was more capable of understanding the complexities...