The Solid Gold Cadillac
In a few weeks, I'll be writing about a book that talks of "the corporatocracy" in a manner so chilling that one doubts that one ought to be seen with it in public, lest "the jackals" pounce. It is very easy to see large corporations as agents of evil. In fact, however, as the movie under discussion makes clear, the corporation is simply a device capable of conferring inordinate power on incompetent people. As I read about the born John Bulls who converted to Islam and plotted to blow up planes with bombs assembled in flight, I ask myself if the "war" is simply a struggle between global corporatism and its discontents, taking Islam as a stooge. We could certainly use a Judy Holliday now.
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Thanks for the reminder about this movie, which I saw eons ago and remember fondly; you've made me want to see it again.
I always loved Paul Douglas, esp. in "A Letter to Three Wives."
Posted by: PPOQ | August 14, 2006 11:39 AM