Day: February 25, 2020

An Actual Solution To Current Horror

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In a 2.25 column titled “Dems, You Can Defeat Trump in a Landslide,” Thomas Friedman urges the Democratic contenders to join together and announce that they are henceforth a team and no longer a circular firing squad — a cabinet consisting of Biden, Sanders, Buttigieg, Warren, Bloomberg, Klobuchar, Steyer, et. al.

“If this election turns out to be just between a self-proclaimed socialist and an undiagnosed sociopath, we will be in a terrible, terrible place as a country,” Friedman writes. “How do we prevent that? My short answer is that the Democrats have to do something extraordinary — forge a national unity ticket the likes of which they have never forged before. And that’s true even if Democrats nominate someone other than Bernie Sanders.

“If they don’t join together,” Friedman warns, “you can kiss the America you grew up in goodbye.”

“Sort Of A Wounded Animal…”

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Asymmetric warfare is “war between belligerents whose relative military power differs significantly, or whose strategy or tactics differ significantly. This is typically a war between a standing, professional army and an insurgency or resistance movement militias who often have the status of [renegade] combatants.”

Credit-block-wise, top creatives should limit their name to six syllables. Because more than six sounds labored and pretentious. When Francis Coppola called himself Francis Ford Coppola, that was as far as it should have gone. I’m willing to offer a compassionate pass to Destin Daniel Cretton, director of Just Mercy, even though he’s over the mark by a syllable. But Cary Joji Fukanaga is two syllables over. Plain old Cary Fukanaga is simpler, cleaner.

No Time To Die will premiere on 3.31.20 at Royal Albert Hall. Two days later it will open commercially in Englands on Thursday, 4.2.20. It will open in the U.S. on 4.10.20.

New Guy

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Congrats to Bob Chapek on being named Chief Executive Officer for The Walt Disney Company, effective immediately. Chapek most recently served as Chairman of Disney Parks, Experiences and Products. Robert Iger is now Executive Chairman and will focus on Disney’s creative endeavors through the end of his contract on 12.31.21. My first thought when I saw Chapek’s photo, no offense, was that he closely resembles Michael Chiklis. He also resembles Vince Vaughn in Brawl in Cell Block 99.


Bob Chapek

Michael Chiklis

Vince Vaughn