Bring Me the Head of Paramount Pictures, Michael Eisner, and if there’s time, Alfredo Garcia
Television is dead. Film is dead. Sometime during a rerun of I Dream of Jeannie civilization heeled over and coughed up the ghosts of Mickey and Minnie. According to CBS Marketwatch and the Gilder Technology Report only books and blogs have the ability to reinvent themselves. Television’s remarkable stasis renders the medium trivial in the cultural scheme of things. The movie industry is unable to draw us into the theaters this summer, despite the fact that War of the Worlds has been remade with the kind of special effects Gene Barry could only dream about. The attacking aliens still resemble really cool vacuum cleaners with green headlights. It is ironic that Mars would invade now when real estate prices have peaked. Housing Bubble? Visible from space.
Book and blogs. What sweet revenge. This upsets the High School Power Structure where the Loud and the Lovely coalesce into iconic bliss while everyone else works at Dennys. Books are the invisible bacteria the invaders can’t defend themselves from. Entire novels are translated into screenplays, thence to film without anyone having read a single word of the original material, the adaptation, or the critical response to the opus. Nobody reads in this town. Yeah, it shows.
The wave of old media probably crested about the time anchor people began to resemble toothpaste commercial models. Books and blogs…say it three times fast. Mike Eisner went to summer camp. Read all about it.