77-year-old Nobel prize winning playwright Harold Pinter has a "new" movie coming out. When interviewed by The Times he was characteristically unsparing:
“The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others. It’s escalated, and there’s a basic indifference to human fate on the part of authoritarian systems, which I believe exists not in a faraway country necessarily but here and now in this country.”
Don't you just want to take a road trip to Vegas with him? Hope I'm half as hardcore if/when I push 80.
Mr. Pinter reserves much of his great outrage for the United States. In his Nobel address, he said it was guilty of “systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless” crimes. “You have to hand it to America,” he said. “It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good.”
And of course a big fancy revival of The Homecoming opens in November on Barfway. I'll be there man, even if I have to get down on my hands and knees and buy an overpriced ticket in order to cram myself into one of those tiny seats with the rest of the livestock.
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