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...which cries foul over the degradation of amateurism while treating its athletes as a supply of indentured labor.In his speech, he criticized the mass marketing of college athletes (billboards of Heisman trophy candidates, memorabilia being sold) without any compensation for the athletes themselves. He challenged the myth of the student athlete, blasting a culture where athletes take easy classes if they even attend them at all, grade inflation is rampant, and players jump ship to the NBA the first chance they get (despite the league’s new draft eligibility age requirement, supposedly there to improve college ball...
...this is a movie as much about modern celebrity as about the Old West. Pitt carries himself with the ground-down grace of a star who's weary of fame. "Jesse is very conscious of his own mortality," says Dominik. "He's imprisoned by the weight of his own myth." The man is fixin' to die and waiting to see who'll be his executioner. Jesse could be Vincent Chase on HBO's Entourage, and the gang his posse. But instead of bathing in the overspill of his limelight, they're jealous, rancorous. Instead of partying with the star, they...
...Alas, after the death of the princess of Wales, the people I knew were not "snuffling into their tissues." They were shrugging their shoulders over this dim, vastly undereducated clotheshorse, this media creation who had fallen harder for her own myth than even her besotted admirers. As I heard people make ridiculous and wholly unfounded references to Diana's "worldwide humanitarian achievements," as I saw crowds sobbing hysterically over mounds of rotting flowers, I can't say that my opinion of the British (normally quite high) was at all improved. The only thing more bizarre than that week of maudlin...
Alas, after the death of the Princess of Wales, the people I knew were not "snuffling into their tissues." They were shrugging their shoulders over this dim, vastly undereducated clotheshorse, this media creation who had fallen harder for her own myth than even her besotted admirers. As I heard people make ridiculous and wholly unfounded references to Diana's "worldwide humanitarian achievements," as I saw crowds sobbing hysterically over mounds of rotting flowers, I can't say that my opinion of the British (normally quite high) was at all improved. The only thing more bizarre than that week of maudlin...
...Alas, after the death of the princess of Wales, the people I knew were not "snuffling into their tissues." They were shrugging their shoulders over this dim, vastly undereducated clotheshorse, this media creation who had fallen harder for her own myth than even her besotted admirers. Ten years later, some people are still obsessed by the silly creature, largely, I suspect, because they're obsessed with princess fantasies. Let's hope that once this anniversary is past, they will get a grip, grow up and move on. Leslie Brown Kessler, Chicago...