“Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.” I CanEyeForceActingStyleWallPersonalityPureVariousWoodsMoodHolesDialogueBagsFourthRefugeeOdorBad MoodRecitingBad Acting Author:James Wolcott
“In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down.” FeelsLooksRealityForceEasyTvsFoolJudgmentStrangerFamiliarSuperiorsFedsChickensPermitViewersOne DirectionReality TvPassivityEditedPamperedPassivity Is Author:James Wolcott
“I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa, I find myself longing for it to become big and strong--Mother Nature's fist of fury, Gaia's stern rebuke. Considering the havoc mankind has wreaked upon nature with deforesting, stripmining, and the destruction of animal habitat, it only seems fair that nature get some of its own back and teach us that there are forces greater than our own.” BigsSeemsMotherStrongForceAnimalTeachGreaterMankindStupidOceanFairsRootsDestructionLongingWeatherConsideringCoastFistsCourtesyFuryHurricanesMother NatureHabitatHavocRebukeGaia Author:James Wolcott
