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May 14, 2003
Myopic Ignorant Fools
This sounds like a perfectly reasonably written article, doesn't it? Well, subject matter being that of a gossip column aside:
Kiddies, did mother not tell you last week that Divine Miss M just signed to do "The Stepford Wives" with Nicole Kidman and Glenn Close which Frank Oz is directing?It's really too bad that what was actually printed in the New York Post on Monday, 12 May, 2003, was the following:Well, pay attention. I now tell you that Bette, who lives in New York, and Nicole, who has a place in New York, and Glenn, who's always stayed in New York, are going to film this in New York.
"The Stepford Wives" will be shot in Long Island City. At Kaufman Astoria Studios. A shoot of several months. The sets are being built as we speak.
Kiddies, did mother not tell you last week that Divine Miss M just signed to do "The Stepford Wives" with Nicole Kidman and Glenn Close which Frank Oz is directing?Emphasis is mine.Well, pay attention. I now tell you that Bette, who lives in New York, and Nicole, who has a place in New York, and Glenn, who's always stayed in New York, are going to film this in New York.
Not in SARS-larded Toronto. Not in any other such throbbing urban metropolis as Halifax or Nova Scotia or whiz-bang pulsating downtown Alberta. Not anyplace in ungrateful unneighborly Canada, that northern suburb right outside Buffalo which wouldn't stand with us, which works cheap, which has tried to lure Hollywood away from New York, which has been looking to con even New York-themed projects into believing their antiseptic boring streets could look like ours and which is desperate to make movies instead of Mounties.
"The Stepford Wives" will be shot in Long Island City. At Kaufman Astoria Studios. A shoot of several months. The sets are being built as we speak.
Years ago, in college, I had two buckets representing the reasonable and rational people in the US in one and the ignorant, close-minded, and incorrigible in the other. Most of the time, I like to think that the first bucket is fuller by far, but in the years since, I keep wondering if I shouldn't be moving more of the pieces from the first bucket and dropping them into the second.
And if nothing else fails, I'll lambast Cindy Adams for her lack of journalistic professionalism.
Even if it is just a gossip column.
Posted by KinCross at May 14, 2003 05:47 PM