Comments on: “You Light Up My Life”

By: sol vason

sol vason — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:31:29 +0000

Perhaps there is a song waiting to be born from this mess. Something like “Love for Sale” or “Jailhouse Rock”. Perhaps Mr. Brooks might get another Oscar which will lend fresh status to his couch or even his piano bench.

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:41:43 +0000

all that said Michael Jackson makes Wretchard’s point today.

By: tattoolady

tattoolady — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:30:27 +0000

If Brooks had actually gotten these women into the movies, he would never have been accused of rape. The crime here is fraud. He promised something he had no intention of delivering. His victims should be pitied in the same way as people who get taken in by mail fraud and turn over their life savings to flim-flam artists. Maybe the popular saying should be: a foolish girl and her virtue are soon parted.

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:42:40 +0000

One thing mentioned by the New Testament is that we can’t really change ourselves in meaningful ways. It is like a statue trying to carve itself. The best we can do is bring ourselves into the presence of God and let him change us.

Sometimes that means going into battle. Sometimes that means going to AA. Sometimes that means finding a frontier somewhere. Sometimes that means doing regular bible reading and prayer.

The way Jesus puts it is: Matthew 6
31So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

By: onetailtest

onetailtest — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:34:53 +0000

Asking the girl to pretend she’s a prostitute, and then letting her hold an Oscar statue – this is rape?

By: black betty

black betty — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:33:12 +0000

I have to agree with LOTM. Well said, Whiskey. What a wonderful post.

By: Lifeofthemind

Lifeofthemind — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:18:59 +0000

whiskey,
You astonish me. Just when I was getting tired of your idée fixe, even if your central tenet is correct it can be overdone, you come through with a post that assures me of your basic decency. You have the right priorities. All else is commentary.

By: whiskey

whiskey — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:47:14 +0000

Wretchard, I’m reminded of what John Madden said about the players in the NFL. He said, something along the lines that almost all of them are fine, upstanding, disciplined, dedicated, decent men, who devote a lot of time to charity and don’t want it publicized. That we only hear, about the terrible things a few bad ones do, and never ever hear about all the good things the vast majority of the players do.

As these events unfolded, we learned after he died, that Ed McMahon was a Marine pilot in WWII AND Korea, flying hideously dangerous missions. Eddie Albert was awarded the Navy Cross for piloting an LST at Tarawa under machine gun fire. Don Adams was an Island hopping Marine during WWII. Charles Durning was an Army Ranger who fought at the Bulge and survived Malmedy.

While it’s true that often we don’t know or want to know about the self-destructive nature of people, we also often never know of their astonishing, absolutely unbelievable heroism. Yes men and women are capable of the most pathetically small, venal, and petty betrayals. But it’s not the whole story. The same coin’s other face has the most astonishing sacrifices by people motivated by love, duty, brotherhood, and faith.

We ought to remember that.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:04:55 +0000

I dunno. What, exactly, did the women expect? Presuming we had a time machine and could get some sodium pentothal down them about two hours before the appointment, what would we hear?
IMO, without proof of drugs, this is a matter of the seduction of the not entirely unwilling.
On spec.

By: trangbang68

trangbang68 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:31:34 +0000

Sad tale of Mr.Brooks , but it is a clear metaphor for Hollywood and the Celebritard culture. Here’s a guy with arteries of stone, a stroke waiting to happen ,probably pumped up on viagra drugging and using gullible young women hungry for their own 15 minutes of fame. The scrapheap grows taller with the spent youth of Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, Nicole Richey,etc.