On PBS "Video i", a frequent presenter of independent films - the intro is often as good/funny as the following 'shorts'. "Short Cuts' is another such program.. Ex. from Video i:

In one, we see the host (odd name on tip of tongue, but..); camera is Reel close, so her face is distorted. She starts out saying..
Hollywood is making such BAD movies.. and spending so MUCH money on them! But never fear, right here in your own living room you can see [our stuff, etc.] ...

Then she quickly turns away and right back..
Shhh.. I hear something outside; I'll be right back -

...

Now whispering & looking scared, she says,
I Just saw Ron Howard and (Jim Carey?) out front ... ... I'm SO Scared !!


{Chortle.. Guffaw..}

So yes, am aware that filmaking is hardly dead; it will always live - it's almost as powerful as a stage play can be. But Corporate, as it oozes into every facet of life - brings the same $-tawdry 'bottomline' / LCD blah, predictable BS ... wherever it makes a foothold, from homogenized deadly-HappyMeals ---> flics.

And spawns such Lovely People as Billy, Bally, n' Ken [oil of oLay].. {shudder}


Ashton
how shall the final battles against Corporate Rule come about?
(topic of 22nd Century history books - fershure)