THEATRE directors are often judged to be gushing and self-important.
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Rarely have I sat through a duller, more self-important evening.
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Those things, but also sort of how self-important the industry was.
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" Another woman addresses America directly: "Don't be so self-important and arrogant.
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She isn't consistently good -- in fact she's often snobbish, and self-important.
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All this feels at first like throat-clearing: self-important and peremptory.
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And the wealthier they get, the more important and self-important they feel.
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It's childish (and scarily self-important), but we all have our weak points.
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Placed together, these works of self-important play-acting are given a rhythmic purpose.
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That does not mean there will not be more summits and self-important communiqués.
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"Imagine being that vain, self important and judgmental by wearing this," one person tweeted.
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Charges that Pepper is too self-important, on the other hand, are simply wrong.
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It was filled with that '60s style of lofty, inspiring and self-important idealism.
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Things on Medium are pretty self-important, and not in a self-aware way.
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Nasty, rude, vindictive, entitled , self-important - that's the woman I had several unpleasant encounters with.
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Worse still, this newfound artistic attention has turned Carrey into an insufferable, self-important knob.
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The award is self-important and often fails to live up to its stated mission.
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Like their author, the tweets were, by turns, sophomoric and self-important, flippant and destructive.
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And that post-Obama world holds no room for minimalist, distinguished, self-important, elevated thoughtfulness.
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Overdoing it can look self-important, and admissions staffers are already neck-deep in paperwork.
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It's respect for other people and it's also wanting for myself to feel less self-important.
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He's self-important, entitled — a man whose fate has been overdetermined by his stupefying good looks.
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"Medium feels like the perfect Obama-era platform: minimal, distinguished, self-important, elevated," Mr. Watson says.
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Many viewed the 44th president as self-important, inexperienced and far too Hollywood for their tastes.
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If only the self-important Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences would get the memo.
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The book provides still more; it outlines Trump's petty belittling of others, his self-important grandiosity.
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Without competition, those leagues' brand of baseball became the sclerotic and self-important product played today.
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"Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane," the gun lobby tweeted.
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It's also intensely self-important, making repeated pronouncements about a grand new unification of economics and physics.
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After all, who among us hasn't felt a little self-important or highly confident now and again?
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"Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane," the Wednesday tweet read.
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But, as with any self-important professional, it doesn't take much to throw Harry off his game.
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It's as though it's a requirement to be joylessly self-important if you're white and you rap.
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I gave a self-important lecture to a neighbor on the importance of using his recycling can.
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Fast-talking and fatuous, self-important and servile, he embodied the "commedia dell'arte" of Trump's dysfunctional crew.
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So far, Trump has "behaved" and "stayed focused," in the condescending words of his self-important aides.
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Back in the 1980s though, they could be a social albatross, their owners mocked as self-important grandstanders.
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"Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane," the gun lobbying group tweeted.
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In the 1990s, activism — particularly student activism — was stigmatized as tedious, silly, self-important and, most damningly, ineffectual.
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Diva is perhaps more commonly used, but it carries the same connotations: demanding, self-important, famous — and female.
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He is not afraid to call out President Obama and the self-important talking heads on cable news.
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"Nasty, rude, vindictive, entitled, self-important - that's the woman I had several unpleasant encounters with," Stone wrote Friday.
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Being typecast as the person who is self-important and always unavailable will only hurt, not help, your career.
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To most mortals, it's nothing more than a silly-ass pageant grouped by self-important artists; which is fair.
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When a self-important hardline politician tried to queue-jump, they booed him to the back of the line.
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I looked back at Jen and considered how to approach this conversation without seeming like a self-important tool.
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"America was self-important in Hangzhou, American media falsely accused China," read a headline on the website of military.china.
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The effort could easily have come off as bloated and self-important, except the clothes were so perfectly restrained.
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By lampooning the staid, self-important tone of some traditional news broadcasts, satirists sought to upset legacy media conventions.
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So mocking someone that self-important, and the people he's surrounding himself with, is necessary and subversive and satisfying.
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Conservatives are playing the long game, not that the House Republican leadership and the self-important pundit class have noticed.
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Even journalists who are studiously solemn and self-important in their traditional media personas engage in snarky commentary on Twitter.
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"It's easy to imagine that they could have their origins in the same self-important, controlling place," Desmond-Harris explained.
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You get all of the self-important self-pity of a nasty case of the flu without the runny nose.
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The first mobile phones were clunky, brick-sized devices, mostly used by self-important bankers and a frequent target of mockery.
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It winds up feeling deliberately satirical, because it's so laughably self-important, yet at the same time so unbelievable and irrational.
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It was at times a bit self-important, but it made me respect him and what he was trying to do.
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Day after day he succeeds in dominating a chamber filled with loud and self-important people, which is no small feat.
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Live, unscripted moments Unlike the Oscars, which can feel stuffy and self-important, the Globes are a rowdier, more bleeptastic affair.
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Margaret was self-important in ways both absurd and pathetic: She was, in a perfect and very 5th-century way, pure royalty.
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Her calm and compassionate response to the massacre in Orlando, contrasted with Trump's self-important display of bombast, is case in point.
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The true crime world is a pretty easy one to mock—if only because it can be so melodramatic and self-important.
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Or, she may have picked central Italy in order to remind the often self-important EU officials of the continent's soft underbelly.
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There are places in the capital where the staff's aloofness would put even the most self-important New York establishments to shame.
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Trump's opposition needs less self-important indignation, more charitable judgments of Trump's base, and a pragmatic message aimed at middle class anxieties.
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I realize this makes the series sound a little like Philbert, at least in the sense that it's a self-important slog.
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And does anyone actually truly care about Chantal, or does the act of playing detective simply making them feel self-important and righteous?
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They are commonly stereotyped as vain, self-important, and attention-seeking, but they are also generous and extremely protective of their loved ones.
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But too much of Life is nakedly cribbed from a better movie, and too much of it is inherently self-important and silly.
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Christie is a little too self-important for that, and much more naturally inclined to give than get, but he did his best.
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Although the war hero was soon a much admired writer, Gary was never taken entirely seriously by the self-important French literary establishment.
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He also garnered unusual attention on social media, including among law professors, for statements and writing that critics found inflated and self-important.
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There is nothing hurried about them, an approach that runs counter to the self-important people he depicts, and this includes the artists.
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It's indefensible, pretty much, and the indignities and exploitations and criminally self-important administrative evasions that make it all happen are also indefensible.
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When you spend time with Yiannopoulos, as I've had the dubious pleasure of doing, one thing becomes clear: He is astonishingly self-important.
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The catch is that "Chasing Cars" is more self-important than "Dog Days," which is what rock 'n' roll is really all about.
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A plot about underprivileged girls in India runs the risk of sounding morally self-important or, worse, voyeuristic, particularly when written in English.
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Peter Florrick was an awful, unreformed, self-important jerk who often damaged his wife's future in his efforts to try to recapture his past.
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Because it's a TV show about two TV writers, you'd be forgiven for assuming it was boring and self-important, but you'd be wrong.
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The club's booker, a self-important wannabe slickster named Ricky (Johnny Hopkins), attempts to use Midge's tardiness as an excuse not to pay her.
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He's rich, pompous, self-important, selfish, insufferable — but we'd be lying if we said that stopped us from falling head over heels for him.
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Warnings of danger are just the self-important whining of those in whose favor the decadent, soon-to-be-destroyed system has been rigged.
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"Editors are very self-important people, but they're not very important people," Abell said, touting the bona fides of his staff of about 20.
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It's made of Napa Valley fruit, unlike Apothic, which uses inexpensive grapes from parts unknown, so the Prisoner is a little more self-important.
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The beer, the foosball tables, the corporate cult: These aren't the silly consequences of a self-important industry drenched in cash; they're a con.
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It doesn't bamboozle or madden or intellectualise or seem to be asking particularly difficult or self important questions about perception or the nature of subjectivity.
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While he was willful, headstrong, and self-important, he tolerated the discipline and graduated from the military school and college to which he was sent.
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More than a dozen years later, at a magazine-sponsored gathering of sixties radicals, Lenny is the most self-important and humorless of the lot.
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Together, let us make a unified, concerted effort to drain the swamp of these self-important, idiotic elitists who have forgotten who their masters are.
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In particular, anti-Trumpists might be a touch more effective if they could recognize how humorlessness and constant self-important dudgeon frequently helps the Trumpian cause, by setting up the dynamic I just sketched in my movie pitch — where the country is asked to choose between two kinds of folly, one squalid and corrupt but the other pompous, insufferable and paranoid in its own self-important way.
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He's certainly not politically qualified, but that hasn't stopped other self-important Silicon Valley elites from believing they have the winning idea to disrupt the government.
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Grave and self-important humanists—notably the towering historian of Jewish mysticism Gershom Scholem and the earnest literary critic Irving Howe—were offended by Roth's clownishness.
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" Elsewhere, she sounds pretentious and self-important: "When one stops writing one becomes oneself again, the person one usually is, in terms of occupations, thoughts, language.
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Mr. Farrell, half-hidden behind an absurdly self-important salt-and-pepper beard, extinguishes nearly all of his natural impishness but keeps the tiniest ember burning.
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"My record being out today and having a star here on the Walk of Fame, I have personally never felt so self-important before," he said, laughing.
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"These are the self-important twits who are running our society today!" a commenter wrote in response to a 2012 article about a contentious Co-op meeting.
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The character of Jimmy—a preening, vainglorious novelist who had a critically lauded debut—is familiar to anyone who has met a self-important, minorly successful writer.
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But when I press on that desire (read: have to actually spend time with the dreadful, self-important delegates of that kind of man), it falls apart.
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The result is strange in the ways we should want movies to be strange—too personal to be self-indulgent and too funny to be self-important.
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"Sicario," a tense if somewhat self-important war-on-drugs thriller from 19823 in which Mr. Kaluuya plays a supporting role, is free for Amazon Prime members.
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It's not too long, not too self-important, and benefits from the craft and talent of a cast that includes Annette Bening, Jude Law and Ben Mendelsohn.
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Much of the Republican establishment, including the typically-neutral Republican National Committee, has excoriated him as a self-important holdout who refuses to put his ambition to rest.
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"The fundamental difference is that Thae is just more laid-back and arguably less self-important," said Michael Madden, a U.S.-based expert on the North Korean leadership.
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And not in a self-important or self-involved way; that's just the effect Rectify has on those involved in it, and its tiny coterie of devoted fans.
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This isn't just tone-deaf and in bad taste for a man who has basically admitted dodging the draft -- it's self-important to the point of self-parody.
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Please, feel free to engage in the self-important discourse about the proper way to protest being volleyed around by verified Twitter accounts ever since the Sanders incident.
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" He goes on to say he plans to take aim at "this new, high self-esteem racism, the self-important, I-belong-here-make-space-for-me racism.
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T." singer Katy Perry told GQ magazine, "I look up into the stars and imagine: How self-important are we to think that we are the only life form?
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Iron Fist himself sticks out like a sore thumb in The Defenders, petulant and self-important but inexplicably the hill upon which they are expected to fight and die.
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Not from a self-important chef, a faceless white guy at the New York Times, or a celebrity influencer, but from a random kid with genuine and focused excitement.
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Other Republicans have seen the same in Rockwell's idealised paintings, full of roguish boys and pious grandparents, baseball games, kindly policemen, daydreaming adolescents, heroic workers and self-important intellectuals.
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Stay clear of the assholes, the douchebags, the users, the liars, the ungenerous, the unkind, the energy-suckers, the self-important, the self-righteous and the know-it-alls.
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The psychological horror has already divided audiences with its tale of a woman, played by Lawrence, competing for the love and attention of her older, self-important poet husband.
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There is no lie here, except the self-important one you may be telling yourself about why you haven't already booked tickets to see something everyone is talking about.
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It is so, so, so self-important and just patronizing to the reader and smug and just bad writing to quote a philosopher in a fucking album review, man.
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And when Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee preened and sniped and made vaguely self-important fools of themselves, she showed her confusion, her amusement, her surprise.
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McCann's is that, even in his best novels, such as the National Book Award-winning "Let the Great World Spin" (2009), his work can be humorless and self-important.
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The Heisman Trophy will be awarded on Saturday and, once again, college football fans will tune in to watch one of the most overdone, self-important award ceremonies in sports.
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While many exhibitions are often mysterious or less-than-straightforward for the sake of being so, the enigmas within Tarantallegra are thematically bolstering, rather than a self-important exercise of obfuscation.
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It's kind of what I do now: demand apologies from successful people for the things that damaged our innocent minds, because I'm that self-important and someone has to do it.
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What that threatens to "suspend" is nothing less than a vital pillar of our constitutional democracy, supported not by the rule of self-important men but by the rule of law.
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Perhaps it is no surprise that someone as self-important as Trump felt a calling to be president, where he could traffic exclusively in Big Picture items like bombing other countries.
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This series, which resumed with Game 22 Monday night at Yankee Stadium, has done little to knock down that argument as the self-important, parochial sentiments of the Northeast corridor elite.
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The piece, "Anthology of Haegue Archives," might be read as ironic: a humorously self-important gesture from an obscure young artist whose career was a long way off from institutional support.
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Austen's novels, to one degree or another, acerbically skewer the self-important landed gentry of her time and, to a lesser extent, the people who aspire to be in their company.
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I reached out to Storr to talk about bogus myths around self-esteem, the roots of our individualism, and what we can do to break out of our self-important bubbles.
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If we were to churn out think pieces and filmmaker interviews about its social relevance, it would be unfair to what the movie actually is (and would sound pretty self-important too).
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But on the big screen, demanding immediate and constant attention, Zoolander 2 just feels pushy and self-important in a way that's at odds with its random-access hit-and-miss humor.
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You know, I think if we get ... If I think maybe there's no new technology then or we get lazy or perhaps we get too self-important and we're not always learning.
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Before the election, this guy" — Barack Obama, she meant — "was my friend, but right now I can't even get 10 minutes with him without going through six layers of self-important jerks.
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"I was disappointed that he's going to Davos because I think it's a lot of self-important people who have a totally different view of the world than he does," he added.
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The script's self-important, back-patting, "Women can be warriors too!" attitude around that plot point matches very oddly with its frankness everywhere else about how Hamilton and Davis handle their fights.
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"Leaders whose schedules are always booked up or whose [executive assistants] ... say no to too many people risk being viewed as imperious, self-important, or out of touch," Porter and Nohria noted.
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The other stuff—random daily updates, polemics about the state of the world, self-important pats on the back, walls of text expressing generally uninteresting feelings—is all stuff I can do without.
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Tasha: Humor has been such a necessary part of MCU stories, and it's helped them create enjoyable, distinctive characters, and lose the self-important oppressiveness that's making DC's superhero films such a slog.
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Only a cloistered group of academics and self-important pundits would miss the fact that rhetorically defusing one of the world's most feared dictators by calling him "Rocket Man" is a winning move.
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They had a lot to do with the approach to art making I brought to music: doing it yourself rather than sending it out to some obnoxious, pompous, deluded, self-important uptown publisher.
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"I was disappointed that he's going to Davos because I think it's a lot of self-important people who have a totally different view of the world than he does," Mr. Moore said.
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When he heard about "celebrity promposals" — a trend where high schoolers ask stars to prom in elaborate ways, and sometimes even get to yes — he took those self-important whippersnappers down a notch.
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But what if we saw this not as precious or self-important, but generous, humble, and, dare I say, political: loaning out the powers of adulthood and fame to someone young and disenfranchised.
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Arthur Bauer (Lars Ekborg, the male lead in Ingmar Bergman's "Summer With Monika"), plays a self-important but now inconsequential political exile who is pitted against the earnest student radical, Tomas (Gosta Ekman).
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Even these self-important attempts to memorialize small moments spent prolonging America's longest conflict can't escape the same myopic approach we applied to fighting the war and "winning hearts and minds" in Afghanistan.
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But the jury weren't fooled and neither was the judge, Mr Justice Stuart-Moore, who rejected out of hand Jutting's self-important post-sentencing statement to the court about the "evil" he had done.
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It's clear from the way he describes the joint to an American journalist named Anne (Elisabeth Moss) that he's a snob—the kind of bougie, self-important Art Guy it's hard not to hate.
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The self-important were the hardest to win over, but putting down the mighty from their seats and exalting the humble, in the words of the Magnificat, were what his show was all about.
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Babylon Berlin is a self-conscious departure from the kind of history shows German TV cranks out by the dozens every year: Those tend to be drab, self-important, graceless and lacking in nuance.
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The hunt here for a 47-character password yields the niftiest feat of gamesmanship in the book, as does Langdon's self-important analysis of what looks like an exotic symbol on a car's window.
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And when Dark Fate does deign to explain what's going on, it delivers its exposition in a self-important, hushed, clumsy way, as if audiences should be astonished by the most basic plot revelations.
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He's self-important in the way that can be dangerous when mixed with a little power, something that Watson Bryant (Sam Rockwell), Jewell's future attorney, warns him about at the start of the movie.
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What Comey's behavior makes clear – and has made clear to observers of differing political stripes – is that a public official can do great harm through the expression of a kind of self-important moral vanity.
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They are light-hearted satire directed at any self-important curators, programmers, and critics who forget that art answers a basic human need, rather than just serve as a status symbol for the upper classes.
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While Ms. Duffy, often nearly naked and singing with the cool roundedness of melting ice, creates a subtly ambivalent portrait of a woman both self-important and persecuted, the opera's other characters are less persuasive.
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And this in the end is all that Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for the highest office in the land, has had to offer America: his shallow, manipulative, self-important, scapegoat-seeking form of rage.
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Doing nothing is exactly what the climate deniers, the Koch network, the N.R.A., the fossil fuel industry and every self-important yahoo in every gerrymandered district in this country wants us to do, as well.
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Before we brace ourselves for a lot of self-important Hollywood types thanking each other at the Oscars, we're taking this moment to thank the folks who have tossed off the veil of reverence and gravitas.
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Directed by Jay Roach, with a screenplay by Charles Randolph, the film balances the fourth-wall-breaking energy of a satirical comedy with the self-important attitude and faux-sincerity of a 6 o'clock news special.
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The Workologist can only add that if you find yourself being interviewed in this manner, give some thought to what such sloppy and self-important behavior might suggest about the operations and culture of the potential employer.
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"A drama which is too sonorous and self-important is not a true representation of the world, because in a way it gives too much credence to the way that most powerful people portray themselves," he said.
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Some days I would come home — maybe it's [after] a scene where we're having a knock-down, drag-out fight — and feel like something profound happened, at the risk of sounding at all self-important or pretentious.
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Some, including loyalists to Trump and Bernie Sanders, argue that they have crafted the new normal, pooh-poohing the rich as self-important and — in a painful indictment of the entire big-money world — proven to be powerless.
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In my opinion, the format draws more attention to itself than to the rather self-important claim that the editors are "convinced that what follows is one of the most cleareyed, powerful and human explanations" of the topic.
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While the more literary Gilles acts out by dissing his self-important French teacher and taking to the woods to declaim Allen Ginsberg's "Wichita Vortex Sutra," Christine, whose troubled home life is made evident, appears willfully self-destructive.
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" Those experiences fueled angry responses from her and other doctors in recent days to a tweet from the National Rifle Association aimed at their profession: "Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane.
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Trump-coddling, self-important, flip-flopping Theresa May, ensconced at 10 Downing Street without ever being elected prime minister, was going to sweep to her hard-Brexit victory and take the country down her little England rabbit hole.
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In the thousands of images we looked at, students upended common complaints about Gen Z: that they are lazy and apathetic, selfish and self-important, that they're glued to their phones and disconnected from the people around them.
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In the season finale, Larry clashes with many people, including Lin-Manuel Miranda, playing a self-important version of himself; rude house guests (including another guest star, Flula Borg); and of course, his constant nemesis Susie (Susie Essman).
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While other screen adaptations of Gaiman's works have been hit-or-miss (Coraline, Stardust), Good Omens maintains a sunny, Pratchett-like disposition that keeps it from feeling too self-important, which Gaiman's works unfortunately tend to do when adapted.
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ANONYMOUS If you (and your friend) are so self-important that you believe others must bend to your will on all matters, including the makeup of fantasy political cabinets, then, yes, drop this person as a friend at once.
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In 1969 he introduced the Great Tomsoni, the Wizard of Warsaw, a self-important fellow who couldn't get his tricks quite right — producing a bowling ball from beneath some scarves, for instance, when he was hoping for a rabbit.
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Unlike Vox Lux, Brady Corbett's disappointing 2018 film starring Natalie Portman as a similarly disturbed pop queen, Her Smell's over-the-top stylings are not burdened with self-important messaging about the perils of fame and the evils of commercialization.
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It is all the more impressive that this production—which stars Bobby Cannavale as the self-important essayist, Daniel Radcliffe as his pernickety fact-hound and Cherry Jones as their formidable editor—turns out to be so provocative and entertaining.
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Why they might not: Anyone who's seen Olympus Has Fallen, the more self-important of the 2013 "save the president from terrorists" movies (alongside White House Down) probably has a good barometer for judging whether Hunter Killer is their speed.
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In this case, "Notorious" — Hitchcock's darkly brilliant masterpiece, in this viewer's opinion — is hastily dismissed in a couple of pages, while the self-important "Vertigo" (which seems to be enjoying a surge in popularity these days) is minutely analyzed and dissected.
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I do suggest, though, in dealing with an irrationally self-important and utterly priority-challenged bride, that your friend make a decision upfront and stick to it: either all in, or all out, because there's too much friction in the middle.
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As the risk of sounding self-important, I helped create some of the earliest internet-based transgender communities on the web (the Transgender Community Forum on America Online, 43–24), and that was a large part of my transition community support as well.
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" Being Texas governor "was scarcely a full-time job," and his 2000 victory in the presidential race owed as much to the ineptness of his Democratic opponent, Al Gore — who "came across as wooden and self-important" — as it did to Bush's "ease on the campaign trail.
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EDINBURGH — "Ulster American," a satirical dark comedy about a female playwright from Northern Ireland, a British director and a self-important American actor — both male — working on a play about a violent Protestant loyalist, is the winner of the 2018 Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh award.
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"Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane," the gun rights group warned medical professionals last week in a tweet that also linked to a blog post that criticizes the American College of Physicians over a recent paper on gun violence prevention.
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In the 21996s, in "Benson," an ABC sitcom in which Robert Guillaume, as the title character, rose from butler to lieutenant governor over seven seasons, Mr. Auberjonois was Clayton Endicott III, a chief of staff who was as self-important as his name but also painfully insecure.
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Yet, for all its splendors, there was a slightly self-important quality to the performance that kept me a little distant, as if the orchestra was claiming ownership of a work from the glory days of Viennese classicism and showing an American audience how it's played at home.
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Building a swimming pool at the presidential summer retreat on the Mediterranean coast, publicly scolding a teenager who addressed him by a nickname and lecturing a worker about the importance of hard work have all firmed up the impression of a self-important leader adrift from France's working class.
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Besides following the adventures of scrappy, sometimes too-oblivious Kimmy (Ellie Kemper), the proud and utterly ridiculous Titus (Tituss Burgess), and the self-important, semi-insane Jacqueline (Jane Krakowski), the show intends to tackle the #MeToo movement and likely confront Kimmy's evident abuse at the hands of the Reverend (Jon Hamm).
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True, the growing economy has left many behind, and ISIS is still a serious threat, but why would anyone think the solution is electing a self-important fraud who knows nothing of government and boasts of a chummy relationship with a head of state who's crushed freedom in his own country?
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That person does need not be autocratic or a self-important know-it-all, but someone who has the ability to harness all of this energy, arbitrate and facilitate, take shots and throw elbows, give direction and take instruction, and ultimately decide how and where resources are used and spent.
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Just over a decade later, the Coens' portrait of grasping fools and self-important Beltway nitwits trying to behave like characters in a John le Carré novel seems less like misanthropy and more like prophecy — a vision of amoral political buffoonery that's arguably the most realistic depiction of Trumpiness to date.
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Episode five, for example, felt like a self-important, defensive bleat from Weiner about the danger of believing accusations without proof — a debate worth having, though probably not when it's moderated by a guy who's been accused of sexual harassment in a scenario where it's his word against a former co-worker's.
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"It was our chance to take the piss out of these self-indulgent, self-important ads you see on TV. It seemed like something that would be a lot of fun to do," Van Der Beek says on the ad's comedic intent, which was devised by him, O'Neal, and VICE's Trent Rohner.
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By turns stupid (his Ph.D. thesis was twice rejected), self-important (he has compared himself to Martin Luther King Jr.), and money-hungry (a suspected Russian agent who tried to recruit him in 2013 was recorded saying he "got hooked on Gazprom"), Page happens also to be highly sympathetic to the Putin regime.
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Although he has committed tens of millions to issues and elections—spending big on fighting climate change and on candidates during the 2018 midterms, along with those ubiquitous and arguably self-important impeachment ads—his decision to announce a presidential campaign earlier this summer suggests an abandonment of long-term strategic thinking.
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Point is, amateurism is a word fart expelled after wolfing down a nothingburger, a Potemkin concept so empty that even the International Olympic Committee—a group of be-blazered blowhards blithely self-important enough to fancy their quadrennial reality show cum international municipal looting an honest-to-goodness movement—has no use for it.
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Every year, to mark the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland — that yearly convocation of the world's richest and most self-important plutocrats — Oxfam puts out a statement that "the top [X] people have the same amount of wealth as the bottom" half, as the Center for Global Development's Maya Forstater and Vijaya Ramachandran once generalized it.
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We see ourselves as the defenders of the public good, but so many of the people I talked to on the campaign trail see the press as the agents of political correctness, as self-important do-gooders who take every opportunity to mock and punish people who don't think and talk and act like we do.
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James Lipton, who died on Monday at the age of 93, made his name conducting in-depth interviews of actors, comedians, filmmakers and others on the long-running series "Inside the Actors Studio" when it was on Bravo TV. Though Lipton could come off as self-important or sycophantic, and was parodied more than once, there's a reason the show was a hit.
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"I'm reluctant to say anything about this silly side-project that could be misconstrued as self-important or give anyone the impression that I don't think these dumb things are a demented waste of time, but since you asked… it's super gratifying when people watch these videos and say that it's restored their faith in film, or erased the feeling that xxxx was a terrible year for the form as a whole," he says.
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Britain is taking tea seriously and taking the Queen seriously and being in a sincere kind of love with Peter Andre, and it is half-glossy televised singing and dancing competitions, and it is villages that pride themselves on their hanging-basket competitions, and it is the RAF, and it is cavalry soldiers, and it is voting Conservative, and it is driving to France just to buy a truck full of wine, and it is the QE2 and Heathrow needs a third runway, and it is a damn good roast dinner after a damn good hunt, and it is Barbour jackets and grisly weather, and it is the Antiques Roadshow, and it is pomp and ceremony and class and classlessness; it is the most unoriginal cuisine in the world defended as though it is Michelin-starred, and it is a green-gray island that is small and inward-looking but gigantically ego'd and self-important, and it is brilliant, and it is terrible.
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