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Doesn't Take Much and That's Messed Up - 2004-03-15 |
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Jay Elias | You can take it with you
"I have wasted Time, and now doth
Time waste me"
- Richard II
2002-03-15- 5:17 p.m.
A Tree Grows In America
Appearing on various stages in New York City tonight, you could see Kevin Bacon, Molly Ringwald, Bea Arthur, Elaine Stritch, Frank Langella, Vanessa Williams, Patti LuPone, Peter Gallager, Alan Rickman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John Lithgow, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Billy Crudup, Bill Pullman, Mercedes Ruehl, Kathleen Turner, Jason Biggs, Alicia Silverstone, Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Illeana Douglas, Valerie Harper, Alan Alda, Diane Venora and Jeffrey Wright.
I have exciting plans to watch a video with my girlfriend. It should be really nice.
Something interesting is going on in America right now. The Corrections is not only up for the National Book Award, but despite his refusal to join Oprah’s book club, has been a huge best seller. Also on the best seller list are biographies of Winston Churchill and Teddy Roosevelt. Television shows such as The West Wing and ER are being broadcast in letterbox. The star of the biggest action hit of the year is an openly gay man in his sixties, and he’s the favorite to win the Oscar. Membership at New York’s museums hasn’t fallen with the recession, and statements show that even more people are choosing to go and pay non-member admissions.
You can tell something is happening when a film about a Nobel Prize winning economist more than triples the gross of a movie where Arnold Schwartzeneger kills terrorists.
I don’t know if this means things are getting any better. Certainly education hasn’t improved (and on an interesting side note, despite all the interest in providing school vouchers, students in New York parochial schools aren’t doing much better according to today’s New York Post) and American ignorance is still appallingly rampant. But people are rediscovering the arts. They are finding a passion for them within themselves.
And that gives me hope. Perhaps with the entire world looking so dark right now, we are all aching inside for something beautiful. Perhaps that ache can save us. Something has too.
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