This over-strained cliche about connecting the dots may have a point after all. The "dots" of Hollywood, Broadway and Fox News are surely scattered, but Eureka! this week there may be a "connection."
With the success of animated films like "Avatar," Hollywood seems intent on pursuing the rainbow of receipts all the way into mythical lands and creatures. And while these creatures can be computerized into something beautiful to behold, they're still fabrications rather than females...
Meanwhile on Broadway, real females trod the boards in such revivals as "A Little Night Music." A critic as sniffy as Ben Brantley has awed over the 'drop-dead gorgeous Catherine Zeta-Jones in the role of Desiree. Having bean awed by her in film, I can hormonally imagine what she's like in the flesh. The fact that she reminds me of the woman I married may have something to do with this, but still I'm of that male gender that appreciate a beautiful woman even more than a beautiful computer...
Then we have our third "dot" Fox News. Recently anchor Brit Hume made an on-air plea to the adulterous Tiger Woods that he convert from Buddhism to Christianity: "I don't think Buddhism offers the kind of forgiveness and redemption that is offered by the Christian faith...."
Now here's how one dot-connector sees this curious trinity. Each party is seeking to make its own 21st C statement. Hollywood: Women are nice, but computers are forever! Broadway: We still like a woman as a woman! Fox News: Women are a proximate occasion for sin, but repent and sin no more!
I'm buying a ticket to Broadway...
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I'll be in line behind you!
ReplyDeleteOK, and maybe we'll stick around for her autograph!!
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