Friday, August 6

 

Special Features

 

In The Ghost Writer, Roman Polanski builds a house

in the south of France during the off-season and uses

green-screen technology to make it look like

Martha’s Vineyard.  The MacGuffin is a BMW

on-board navigation system that takes a driver where

a previous driver went to solve a mystery, or to create

ambiguation.  Also, there’s a puzzle in a manuscript.

It’s a tale told by a dead man.  I couldn’t keep track of

everyone.  Luckily, I’ve watched a lot of movies and know

the tricks.  My question was, why isn’t it Bush accused

of war crimes by the international court in The Hague?

Why is it a stand-in for Tony Blair?  Pierce Brosnan?

What did Bush do in college?  At Yale, where the CIA

was thicker than a whiffenpoof?  Why isn’t he

somebody’s gunsel?  A sleeper?

Run by Wall Street?

Boxes within boxes.

Knife in the Water.

The Manchurian Candidate.

Christopher Hitchens writes about

homosexuality at Eton.  A gunsel is

a catamite.  From the Roman name for Ganymede,

cupbearer to the gods, Catamitus.  How much for

the little girl?  Was that John Belushi?

No, it was his brother, Jim.

What’s wrong with this picture?

Did they get away with it?

 


 

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