Movies, Celebrity, Stuff Like That

--There are people in this world—they know who they are—who watch the Tony Awards on CBS every year, despite the fact they have never been to a Broadway show in their lives.

--I should have known Robert De Niro was a sellout the day I saw him playing Fearless Leader and, of course, asking the immortal question, “You talkin’ to me?” The day is fast approaching when I won’t want to listen.

--One day, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will relax its rules on nominating actors for Oscars. The next day, cell phone video of Meryl Streep eating a ham sandwich on white bread in her kitchen will surface on Youtube. Meryl will immediately be nominated for another Oscar. (This was written some while ago, but this is particularly valid in view of the fact that meryl's got a new film coming out where she plays, ironically enough, Julia Child.)

--In America, nearly all the truly great actors and filmmakers are dead or getting there. Somehow I cannot imagine being sixty years old and hearing Lindsay Lohan mentioned among the greatest actors of her generation.

--In 2001: A Space Odyssey, how is the HAL 9000 repaired? Surely before taking off on his trip in the EVA pod, Dave Bowman had to reconnect HAL 9000; otherwise, he would not have been able to leave Discovery One. Maybe such vagaries are why they refer to it as science fiction.

--Do you know that there are people in this world—considerably famous people, at that—who alphabetize their canned goods?

--I will be just out of my mind with delight and glee the minute I find out that a new Woody Allen film has debuted to a $100-million box office opening. We are quickly running out of time to see it happen, I'm sorry to say.

--At some nebulous point in the recent past, Angelina Jolie and Mia Farrow must have had lunch together. I would love to have been within earshot if such a meeting ever took place.

--Boy, bagging on celebrities isn't as fun as it used to be. Bagging on the people who make fun of celebrities is a little more exciting.