Radical Statement in Plain Sight
By just one of our fine local movie critics, in his Sunday column answering reader mail: Hi Eric: Unfortunately, you’re right. The internet is like a wind tunnel for ideas. As soon as an idea barely forms, it gets blown into the public space, and once it’s there, there’s no reason to develop or modify it, because it’s already there. It’s done. Plus, there’s another idea already entering the wind tunnel. -- Mick LaSalle in Datebook I originally titled this post "Radical Statement in Plain Site" but someone mistook my play-on-words for a malapropism. LaSalle was responding to reponses to his earlier column in which he remembered planning to pan a live performance by falling star Andy Gibb, but changed his mind when : Somehow, seeing him up close, close enough to see the sweat on his temple, I suddenly understood that he was an actual person. Of course, I’d known that before, but there’s a difference between knowing something and really knowing it. In that moment, I realized ...