"I try to think about things logically, and, as a result, people think I'm a satirist."
- Robert Anton Wilson
I have great difficulty naming an absolute favorite in any category. I can talk at length about why I like certain movies or songs or books or genres or cars or whatever, but, like the pyramid on the great seal, I have difficulty envisioning the apex.
I've lately been identifying my favorite movie as Network from 1976.
I am not necessarily mad as hell, and I assume I will be taking it for quite some time, but I must say I identify more now than I used to with Howard Beale's plight of being removed from the air for bad ratings.
I just ran across some not exactly breaking news that George Clooney plans to produce a live television production of Network sometime in the near future.
I wonder if anything in the story will have to be updated to make it seem like satire now.
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