Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Sorry, I was going to note this on Sunday, but lethargy took over before I could make it to the keyboard. Jesse Singal was back with a Boston Sunday(!) Globe op-ed on the eve of the Oscars. I've had two cups of coffee now and have not only made it through the piece but still have enough will to live to post. Jesse notes that...wait for it...Avatar carries an anti-US foreign policy message! I know, insightful. I almost zoned out before making it there, but he ends up relating Avatar's success, including particularly overseas numbers, to Obama's great and continuing apology tour. Somehow Avatar's take at the box office is related in some vague way with the success of Obama's shift in tone in foreign affairs....or something. Of course, most people, while thrilling at Avatar's visuals, have rightly derided the film's story -- as our friends in the UK would have it -- as utter wank (or would that be bollocks? Or some combination?). Sadly, that's about the level of substantive success the new Administration's policies have experienced as well.
Singal no longer works for a Soros-funded outfit. Not surprising, really. Soros probably expects a certain value for his money. The Globe? Not so much.
Oh, here's the Globe piece: Foreign policy: Diffusing arrogance in 'Avatar'
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