The Shriek of hopeless despair woke the entire house.
As my wife tells it, she rushed to my den only to find me curled up in a fetal ball muttering, “No. No. It’s not possible. Not Russell!”
By the following evening I had recovered sufficiently to eat a little soup and explain the nervous collapse to my wife whose tender love had restored my reason.
I began haltingly with: “Tom Hanks,… ok. Brad Pitt, of course, anything for a quiet life with Angelina; Leonardo, no problem, an intellectual pigmy who thought Al Gore a genius! Sean Penn, so far up his own ass, he’s capable of any idiocy.”
“But Russell Crowe! How could you do this to me?”
“We were mates in that matey Aussie way that is in no way homosexual! We had a connection. It wasn’t just on my side. I believed in you. And I was naive enough to think that you too… Well, I was wrong.”
I then collapsed into sobs that tore at my wife’s heartstrings. Mercifully, sleep carried me away to another world far away from the casual betrayals of this one.
Now, three days later, I can look back on our relationship with detachment. Now I only feel sorry for him and all those poor wretches deceived by his lies.
***
Five days ago Russell Crowe revealed his politics to the world in a tweet.
“Villagers, I don't endorse politicians. Not my thing. However, Obama is the light & the future. Keep going towards the light. Put America first,”
Obama “the light”?
What planet are you living on Crowe?
You mean the guy who borrowed the best part of a Trillion dollars from the next generation to fund his very own “New Deal” without leaving even a Hoover Dam or two to show for it?
You mean the guy who lied for two weeks about a You Tube video being responsible for the deaths of 4 Americans when we now know he knew of the terrorist attack on them in real time and refused to help them?
You mean the guy who is comfortable in the company of racists, terrorists and Marxists but so hates Republicans that American governance is paralyzed and the US headed for certain bankruptcy if he wins a second term?
Maybe Russell likes Obama’s rhetoric about the one percenters paying more?
This would be a bit more credible if it wasn’t for the fact that every time Crowe walks out on the set of his latest film, he’s surrounded by actors earning less than 1% of what he is.
Maybe next time he might negotiate equal rates for all on the set?
***
Oh, Russell, Russell. As Capt. Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander you had us cheering in the aisles.
When you said: “God bless America, God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia,” I dared to hope that here at last was an actor I could identify with.
Can't we right wingers have one actor below 70 to admire?
Apparently not.
Apparently not.
Russell, you let us down, mate.
Maximus has died.
ReplyDeleteMaximus is the plutocrat slayer. These rich Hollywooders are the real patriots - willing to pay a couple percent more in taxes for the betterment of our children's future.
ReplyDeleteWe don't need another male white plutocrat in the "Black and Brown" White House. Sorry racists, you're hate is the real problem.
Dejavu all over again
DeleteAs a general rule, I think those people whose only argument is to continually bleat about racism are projecting their own race issues on to the rest of us.
Deleteha ha! surely you realise that all hollywood actors are prostitutes?
ReplyDeletenow if you want to watch some primo merde, I suggest you go see
the excerable "zero dark thirty"as fine a piece of anti american agitprop
crap as is possible to make
bigelow should havestuck to vampire movies, but hey let's not forget it is all about the money after all........
and the acting? makes "starsky and hutch" look like cinema verite'
OK. Fair enough. I was naive.
ReplyDeleteAlso I quite liked Zero Dark Thirty. But maybe part of the reason for that is that I had expected much worse.