Literature is no great shakes these days either. The last 20 or so years have been a period of artistic mediocrity. Oddly enough, it’s in the last 20 years or so that the baby boomers have come to the fore. Coincidence? I think not.

Remember when Paddy Chayefsky castigated Vanessa Redgrave for turning her acceptance speech into an anti-Zionist screed? Those were the days.