I've been browsing through some remarks at the Internet Movie Database in regards to this Angels in America thing that HBO has put on---haven't seen it, won't see it, don't care about homosexual theater¹---and it appears that Emma Thompson and Meryl Streep reportedly share some sort of mid-air kiss.

Well isn't that just special. I had hoped that the end of the 1990s would put an end to this radical chic thing of making grandiose statements with female homosexual expression, but I suppose that some people haven't gotten the memo about the turn of the century. Felgercarb, to steal a line from an old favorite television show.

I'd been moderately fond of Emma Thompson since seeing her as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing in high school, and had been willing to overlook her turn as the ersatz Hillary Rodham Clinton in Primary Colors. But this, yech, banishment to the blacklist. There's no commentary necessary for Meryl Streep, whose last performance of note I considered to be The River Wild.

Sigh. Enh, just another reason to dismiss another downward notch in the cultural spiral. Once upon a time, good things came out of the theater and were celebrated. Why can't we have a cheerful and positive thing like Seven Brides for Seven Brothers or something like that? Admittedly, it'd be Seven Husbands for Seven Brothers if written today, and the Pontipee brothers would all be into various things that one could have seen in Times Square before Giuliani cleaned it up. (Oklahoma with Hugh Jackman was on PBS earlier in the month, but you were too busy to notice. --Ed.)

Quoting Harry Turtledove's Robert E. Lee again: "Too bad! Oh, too bad!"

¹ Lemme get this straight: It's about Roy Cohn, evil Republicans, and isn't-it-awful-about-AIDS? Bah. We've already been down this road. It's the last twenty years of AIDS activist propaganda, for pete's sake, and, to steal a line from Michelle Branch, I just don't care.

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