[lbo-talk] Re:reagan

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Dennis Perrin" <dperrin at comcast.net>
>
> > Haven't read Morris, but I thought his basic take was that Reagan 
>actually
> > wasn't human, that he had no center.
>
> > Carl
>
>More complex than that. R's fam life early on wasn't happy, and he sought 
>to
>fill whatever emptiness he felt by embracing and espousing the simplest
>narratives. R was a born actor, a good one, and once Holmes Tuttle and 
>other
>reactionary millionaires got hold of him, he was destined for the greatest
>role that exists in the US (to most anyway -- me, it's Fed Chairman).
>
>DP

My takeaway is that Reagan proves Hollywood is the essence of evil after 
all.  Before Reagan came to power I never took seriously the idea that 
movies, in their ability to create ersatz myths, are basically mind rot.  
Well, Ronnie certainly set me straight on that one.

BTW, I just watched about one-half hour of Lost in Translation and do not 
understand why this irritating, humdrum movie elicited such oohs and ahs.  
Why exactly is the viewer supposed to be interested in the mild 
world-weariness of the Bill Murray character, some clown who's earning two 
million bucks for doing a few minutes' modeling work?

Carl

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