Wednesday, January 20, 2010

The Bulwer-Lytton Contest Ought to Be Retired

No, really. How can anyone ever top this? The flyblown historical and literary analogies, the bundle of neuroses disguised as social conscience, the fact-free vitriol, the laughable imagery most likely derived from a recollection of illustrations from old editions of Weird Tales magazine, the whole dog's breakfast labeled as a defense of "reason". Truly awful stuff. And to cap it off, he's wrong.

Some actors just shouldn't ad lib.

5 comments:

JeffS said...

Credit where credit is due, Steven Weber was excellent as that drug-addicted screenwriter on “The Sopranos.”

It might be that Weber has considerable real life experience in that role. Which would explain much.

RebeccaH said...

Wow. Talk about purple prose. He must have drinking or toking when he wrote that.

Paco said...

Rebecca: I hope he was stoned when he wrote that. No other explanation possible - except, perhaps, for mental illness.

Yojimbo said...

"It is an all out assault on reason, on progress, on truth." He obliges us with a critique of his own work, I like that in a person, one stop shopping.

Paco said...

Honesty does have a way of breaking in, doesn't it?