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03/01/2004 Archived Entry: "Breslin."
Breslin.
Another fine column from the last of a dying breed. No, not Pekinese.
That clip-clip-clip you heard were the Pekinese of the Press trotting to please and pander. Hurry, hurry, hurry! I must cover the new survival show.In all my years in my business, through assassinations, serial killers, and suddenly being startled by the great national movements started before the news business realized it - civil rights and the women's movement - I never saw or felt anything like the occurrences of this week. Decades and decades of staring blankly at television finally struck the news business dumb.
It began with George W. Bush breaking into morning television as if announcing a new war, and saying that he was seeking a constitutional amendment against same sex marriages. Beautiful. I wonder if he cleared it with Dick Cheney's daughter.
The news reporting business then made it seem momentus. Amend the Constitution. Absolutely marvelous! The matter was gone the moment it came out of his mouth. Not in the media, which truly is the plural for mediocre.
On Wednesday, a movie was released about the death of Christ. I thought they were giving live reports from Calvary.
Of all the things I have been taught and read about my religion, the only time that Christ got mad was when he threw the money changers out of the temple. This is exactly what the movie is about. A Hollywood actor and producer named Mel Gibson brought this movie out on Ash Wednesday and showed himself to be just another money changer. The news reporters, and that is television and papers, these dreadful Pekinese, wrote about a movie as if the earth shook.
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It’s just nice to see that someone still knows the difference between Calvary and cavalry. Now if someone could just teach W that it is nucLEAR and nucULAR. A little hint to help him remember would be to think of the word nucleus (although he probably would also say nuculus, that is if he knew the word to begin with). Can we stop electing southerners for president please? Especially southerners from New England, that’s just sad...
Posted by justin @ 03/01/2004 10:42 PM NY
Welcome to history revised, better known as the Gospel of Mel. I encourage you all to look into his remarks regarding his wife and heaven. According to him, since his wife is not Catholic, she will not go to heaven. He, however, will. Sheer hubris.
Posted by Philip Tuley @ 03/01/2004 11:05 PM NY
Too much violence in all of that idiots movies. And in the case of this film, well it just sucks just like all established religions. Are you human or just a freaking sheep. Every religious person thinks their religion is right. So they go out and kill anybody who thinks differently. What a sham. I am not an atheist, but big organizations that sell you God are selling fradulent bullshit. God dosen't need money so don't send those scam artists a red cent. And put Mr. Gibson's movie in the trash can where it belongs.
Posted by Paul @ 03/02/2004 03:19 AM NY
Ya gotta give ol' Mel credit, he got himself about a billion dollar's worth of free publicity.
According to Boxofficemojo.com, The Passion of the Christ (as of 2/29) has a worldwide gross of $129m vs costs of about $45m (production and marketing). That yields a gross profit of $84m so far. Mel is no dummy.
Compare that to The Last Temptation of Christ (one of my all-time best films) which grossed under $9m.
Ain't Capitalism great?
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 03/02/2004 12:48 PM NY
"Not in the media, which truly is the plural for mediocre. "
Ha, Ha, Ha, Beautiful!!
Great Post Justin, nice sentence structure, good grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Nice to see you back on the wagon.
Posted by Stentor @ 03/02/2004 03:27 PM NY
my god, you are an ass
Posted by justin @ 03/02/2004 06:42 PM NY
