Phil_Shuman's Blog

Post Oscar thoughts ( thankfully not related to fashion. ) Let's see... Best Picture.. celebrating a psychopathic killer who calmly dispatches victim after victim with no apparent concern for the swath of death he leaves behind..... also an Oscar for that best supporting actor who we really come to love despite his murderous ways.... ... Best actor ? .. a twisted violent man who doesnt hesitate to kill ( but he also has entrepreneurial skills !) who bashes in a youngsters head in a most skilled and horrific way... Let's see.. Best picture that wasn't nominated, 'American Gangster'....celebrating.. hmmm.. another cool yet violent drug dealing merchant of death who thinks nothing of shooting first and not ever bothering to ask questions as he struts his stuff in fur while driving slick rides.... And that actor, one of our finest and most respected,,, who also won an earlier Oscar for being... let's see.. a violent sadistic drug dealing out of control cop who abused shot and otherwise took people out.... I could go on.. let's go to TV.... let's see... CBS brings over from cable a series that seems to glorify a... could it be a sadistic mass murderer who gets joy out of bizarre torture and gruesome murder scenes ? At least he doesnt seem to be too into guns. ..... and among their top shows week to week is already a celebration of death and destruction but it's investigated by hot chicks with major cleavage in pastel hues with loud music.... so that's ok ? softens the blow of death a bit perhaps ? ... over here.. we can't get back to the Keifer fast enuf, so he can maim, torture, shoot up and otherwise blaze an almost comically violent path thru the world while saving it every 24 hours... So.. my point, ultimately, is given all this and more..., why is anyone shocked or outraged when someone in the 'real world' picks up a a gun in Winnetka and wipes out their family and a police officer, or at Northern Illinios University or .... Columbine..,or today, Yorba Linda.... the list goes on and on. ....Of course the studios, at which no executive would likely agree to address these kinds of questions, they always say '' we don't influence society.. we just reflect it.... " sure. I just hope Smith and Wesson doesn't cut a product placement deal with Simon and his sidekicks on AI.

later

phil