Culture:
CynicismConan
O’Brien signed off from The Tonight Show a few weeks ago
with a classy speech. After being maneuvered out of his
dream job in a highly public way,
he said:
"All I ask of you,
especially young people . . . is one thing. Please don’t
be cynical. I hate cynicism — it’s my least favorite
quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life
gets exactly what they thought they were going to get.
But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing
things will happen. I’m telling you, amazing things will
happen."
The cynic in me wants to note
how easy it is for Conan to say that with his $40 million
severance package. But instead...
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Movies:
A Face in the Crowd
Everything that
television has done to us,
every way it dumbed us down, every way it turned
politics into show business and political discourse into
sound bites and empty catch phrases, every way it has been
used to make us consumers who buy what we’re told…all of it
was anticipated in 1957’s
A Face in the Crowd, directed by Elia Kazan and
written by
Budd Schulberg.
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