HOLLYWOOD LEFT STRIKES OUT, AGAIN

The reviewers are slamming both Blue State hit pieces on Bush---"Dreamz" and "The Sentinel"--- as simply not funny, and not even believable; this condemnation coming from the Bush hating Left Wing critics means they must be just awful. So the Left pisses another 50mil or so down the drain. As a person with a lot of show biz experience, allow me to offer the view that satire never works when it is aimed at an individual. It has to be embedded in lifestyle, a place like D.C., the court of Louis the Fourteenth, or broad attitudes about something. Think of the delicious Restoration Comedies, so named because they satirized the entire ruling class of the post Cromwellian "Restoration" of the monarchy in England. This was an age of foppery and sexual excesses the equal of today; an age of the stare; when women with plunging necklines curtsied as low as possible so the male recipients of the move could see their "goods" while they "flashed" by using a fan; a time when men carried mirrors so they could check themselves out while walking or in company; men wore fake calves on their lower legs in order to look muscular, and so on. The best known playwrites of the period include Moliere (The School for Husbands, School for Wives, and a ton of others), Wycherley ("The Country Wife"), George Etherege ("The Comical Revenge or, Love in a Tub" ) William Congreve ("The Way of the World") and many more. All had to do in part with the phony "romances" going on in courts of the period and the impossible situations the players concocted for themselves. While not especially funny, the recent "Dangerous Liaisons" sort of fills the bill.

You cannot satirize Bill Clinton but you might be able to satirize world wide buggering of mistresses and chambermaids by PMs, Presidents, and dictators while they are all having a meeting at some conference or other as they chase each other's women, and simultaneously their equally compromised press secretaries try to cover it all up.

So Hate loses once again.