God, I want to shout this piece (and the great comments too!) from the rooftops from mine and my neighbors’ hick shacks. It touches a nerve (and a very sore one at that) of what is at root of what is wrong with America, ie..us.
Perhaps in addition to the above comment about the need for patriotic movies, there is a need, and a great market I believe, for a dramatic script that would adequately portray this tortured, pathetic creature – a kind of Willy Loman/Citizen Kane of the bizarre Hollywood enclave – desperately hiding behind a severely pathological Messianic complex, painfully wanting to be loved and feel significant, while experiencing a degree of self-loathing so unfathomable and awful that he becomes totally oblivious to how obvious he is to the rest of the world.
Can anybody else smell a blockbuster?
