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a round-up
Oct. 9th, 2009 09:41 amLambda Literary Foundation
Confession time: approaching ten years ago, around the time of the Millennium March on Washington, I remember feeling and occasionally saying how it often sucked to be marginalized by a group that was campaigning for mainstream acceptance. This was very wrong of me, of course. I was a kid; I did not at that time understand that calling out a marginalized group for what I perceived as its failure to show sufficient appreciation for a privileged ally was, as we would now say, made of fail.
I trust the relevance of this - despite my framing it in the form of a confession, it is in fact not remotely about me - to the LLF kerfuffle is apparent.
Roman Polanski
I'm glad the Swiss have declined to release him, and I'm not sure what is being thought by the French, the Poles, and the numerous signatories to the loathsome "Free Roman" petition. I was musing that most of those who have signed it cannot possibly ever have been, or been parents of, thirteen-year-old girls, but I don't know what to think about Whoopi Goldberg and (oh, god) Emma Thompson. I don't know if I'm prepared never to watch another of Ms Emma's movies ever again. I can live without Jonathan Demme and (aie!) Martin Scorsese and (spare me) Woody Allen, and even (frankly) Stephen Soderbergh, but, oh, Emma, really, honestly, WHAT. WHAT. This is the first I've really been disappointed by this whole thing; previously I'd been galled by the assumption of entitlement but reassured by (e.g.) the Governator's refusal to pre-emptively pardon the sonofabitch.
Nobel Peace Prize
Look, if they can give it to Henry Kissinger and Yassir Arafat (to take two completely random examples) for what they did do, I don't see why it doesn't make sense to give it to Barack Obama for what he means to do. Plus, as I've seen around various places, in this case intentions really are more usually the point.
Confession time: approaching ten years ago, around the time of the Millennium March on Washington, I remember feeling and occasionally saying how it often sucked to be marginalized by a group that was campaigning for mainstream acceptance. This was very wrong of me, of course. I was a kid; I did not at that time understand that calling out a marginalized group for what I perceived as its failure to show sufficient appreciation for a privileged ally was, as we would now say, made of fail.
I trust the relevance of this - despite my framing it in the form of a confession, it is in fact not remotely about me - to the LLF kerfuffle is apparent.
Roman Polanski
I'm glad the Swiss have declined to release him, and I'm not sure what is being thought by the French, the Poles, and the numerous signatories to the loathsome "Free Roman" petition. I was musing that most of those who have signed it cannot possibly ever have been, or been parents of, thirteen-year-old girls, but I don't know what to think about Whoopi Goldberg and (oh, god) Emma Thompson. I don't know if I'm prepared never to watch another of Ms Emma's movies ever again. I can live without Jonathan Demme and (aie!) Martin Scorsese and (spare me) Woody Allen, and even (frankly) Stephen Soderbergh, but, oh, Emma, really, honestly, WHAT. WHAT. This is the first I've really been disappointed by this whole thing; previously I'd been galled by the assumption of entitlement but reassured by (e.g.) the Governator's refusal to pre-emptively pardon the sonofabitch.
Nobel Peace Prize
Look, if they can give it to Henry Kissinger and Yassir Arafat (to take two completely random examples) for what they did do, I don't see why it doesn't make sense to give it to Barack Obama for what he means to do. Plus, as I've seen around various places, in this case intentions really are more usually the point.
